@article{gubler2022effect,

title = {The effect of chronic pain on voluntary and involuntary capture of attention: An event-related potential study.},

author = {Dani`ele A Gubler and Stephan Zeiss and Niklaus Egloff and Frank Frickmann and Benjamin Goetze and Michael Harnik and Konrad Streitberger and Stefan J Troche and others},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000375},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Behavioral neuroscience},

volume = {136},

number = {2},

pages = {195},

publisher = {American Psychological Association},

abstract = {Although the interrupting effect of chronic pain on voluntary-directed attention is well-documented, research on the impact of chronic pain on involuntary-directed attention remains incomplete. This study aimed to investigate the influence of chronic pain on involuntary as well as voluntary allocation of attention as, respectively, indexed by the P3a and P3b components in the event-related potential derived from the electroencephalogram. Both involuntary and voluntary captures of attention were compared between 33 patients with chronic pain and 33 healthy controls using an auditory three-stimulus oddball task (with standard, target, and unexpected distractor tones). The results revealed a reduced P3a amplitude as well as a reduced P3b amplitude in patients with chronic pain compared to healthy controls, indicating a detrimental effect of chronic pain on involuntary and voluntary attention, respectively. This study extends the picture of the impairing effects of chronic pain on attentional allocation to a current task and attentional allocation to information outside the focus of attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)},

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@article{arakaki2021alpha,

title = {Alpha desynchronization during Stroop test unmasks cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau},

author = {Xianghong Arakaki and Shao-Min Hung and Roger Rochart and Alfred N Fonteh and Michael G Harrington},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.11.009},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-05},

journal = {Neurobiology of Aging},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Synaptic dysfunctions precede cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) by decades, affect executive functions, and can be detected by quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). We used qEEG combined with Stroop testing to identify changes of inhibitory controls in cognitively healthy individuals with an abnormal versus normal ratio of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid/total-tau. We studied two groups of participants (60-94 years) with either normal (CH-NAT or controls, n = 20) or abnormal (CH-PAT, n = 21) CSF amyloid/tau ratio. We compared: alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD), alpha spectral entropy (SE), and their relationships with estimated cognitive reserve. CH-PATs had more negative occipital alpha ERD, and higher frontal and occipital alpha SE during low load congruent trials, indicating hyperactivity. CH-PATs demonstrated fewer frontal SE changes with higher load, incongruent Stroop testing. Correlations of alpha ERD with estimated cognitive reserve were significant in CH-PATs but not in CH-NATs. These results suggested compensatory hyperactivity in CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs. We did not find differences in alpha ERD comparisons with individual CSF amyloid(A), p-tau(T), total-tau(N) biomarkers.},

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@article{dong2021explainable,

title = {Explainable Convolutional Neural Network to Investigate Age-Related Changes in Multi-Order Functional Connectivity},

author = {Sunghee Dong and Yan Jin and SuJin Bak and Bumchul Yoon and Jichai Jeong},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10233020},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-03},

journal = {Electronics},

volume = {10},

number = {23},

pages = {3020},

publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},

abstract = {Functional connectivity (FC) is a potential candidate that can increase the performance of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the elderly because of its compensatory role in neural circuits. However, it is difficult to decode FC by the current machine learning techniques because of a lack of physiological understanding. To investigate the suitability of FC in BCIs for the elderly, we propose the decoding of lower- and higher-order FC using a convolutional neural network (CNN) in six cognitive-motor tasks. The layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) method describes how age-related changes in FCs impact BCI applications for the elderly compared to younger adults. A total of 17 young adults (24.5±2.7 years) and 12 older (72.5±3.2 years) adults were recruited to perform tasks related to hand-force control with or without mental calculation. The CNN yielded a six-class classification accuracy of 75.3% in the elderly, exceeding the 70.7% accuracy for the younger adults. In the elderly, the proposed method increased the classification accuracy by 88.3% compared to the filter-bank common spatial pattern. The LRP results revealed that both lower- and higher-order FCs were dominantly overactivated in the prefrontal lobe, depending on the task type. These findings suggest a promising application of multi-order FC with deep learning on BCI systems for the elderly},

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@article{arechavala2021task,

title = {Task switching reveals abnormal brain-heart electrophysiological signatures in cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF amyloid/tau, a pilot study},

author = {Rebecca Johnson Arechavala and Roger Rochart and Robert A Kloner and Anqi Liu and Daw-An Wu and Shao-Min Hung and Shinsuke Shimojo and Alfred N Fonteh and Michael T Kleinman and Michael G Harrington and others},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.10.007},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-01},

journal = {International Journal of Psychophysiology},

volume = {170},

pages = {102--111},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha oscillations have been related to heart rate variability (HRV) and both change in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We explored if task switching reveals altered alpha power and HRV in cognitively healthy individuals with AD pathology in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and whether HRV improves the AD pathology classification by alpha power alone.



We compared low and high alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD) and HRV parameters during task switch testing between two groups of cognitively healthy participants classified by CSF amyloid/tau ratio: normal (CH-NAT, n = 19) or pathological (CH-PAT, n = 27). For the task switching paradigm, participants were required to name the color or word for each colored word stimulus, with two sequential stimuli per trial. Trials include color (cC) or word (wW) repeats with low load repeating, and word (cW) or color switch (wC) for high load switching. HRV was assessed for RR interval, standard deviation of RR-intervals (SDNN) and root mean squared successive differences (RMSSD) in time domain, and low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), and LF/HF ratio in frequency domain.



Results showed that CH-PATs compared to CH-NATs presented: 1) increased (less negative) low alpha ERD during low load repeat trials and lower word switch cost (low alpha: p = 0.008, Cohen's d = −0.83, 95% confidence interval −1.44 to −0.22, and high alpha: p = 0.019, Cohen's d = −0.73, 95% confidence interval −1.34 to −0.13); 2) decreasing HRV from rest to task, suggesting hyper-activated sympatho-vagal responses. 3) CH-PATs classification by alpha ERD was improved by supplementing HRV signatures, supporting a potentially compromised brain-heart interoceptive regulation in CH-PATs. Further experiments are needed to validate these findings for clinical significance.},

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@article{jung2021effect,

title = {The Effect of a Mindfulness-Based Education Program on Brain Waves and the Autonomic Nervous System in University Students},

author = {Mijung Jung and Mikyoung Lee},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111606},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-11-22},

booktitle = {Healthcare},

journal = {Healthcare 2021},

volume = {9},

number = {11},

pages = {1606},

organization = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},

abstract = {Background: Mindfulness, defined as the awareness emerging from purposefully paying attention to the present moment, has been shown to be effective in reducing stress and, thus, promoting psychological well-being. This study investigated the effects of a mindfulness-based education program on mindfulness, brain waves, and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in university students in Korea. Methods: This study is a quantitative and experimental research with a single-group pre-post design. Six sessions of mindfulness-based intervention were applied. In total, 42 students completed a mindfulness questionnaire before and after the intervention, and 28 among them completed pre-intervention and post-intervention measures of brain waves and ANS. Results: The level of mindfulness increased in the participants after intervention. Regarding brain waves, the alpha and theta waves increased, but the beta waves decreased. There was no significant difference in the ANS, presenting no change in heart rate variability. Conclusions: We identified the positive effects of the mindfulness-based education program for university students. The findings indicate that this program may help students not only relax, but also generate a mindfulness state in stressful situations, potentially leading to a successful university life. This study can be used as a basis for quality improvement and sustainability of mindfulness-based education programs for university students.},

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@article{seo2021derivation,

title = {Derivation of EEG Spectrum-based Feature Parameters for Mental Fatigue Determination},

author = {Ssang-Hee Seo},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2021.11.10.010},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-10-28},

journal = {Journal of Convergence for Information Technology},

volume = {11},

number = {10},

pages = {10--19},

publisher = {Convergence Society for SMB},

abstract = {In this paper, we tried to derive characteristic parameters that reflect mental fatigue through EEG measurement and analysis. For this purpose, mental fatigue was induced through a resting state with eyes closed and performing subtraction operations in mental arithmetic for 30 minutes. Five subjects participated in the experiment, and all subjects were right-handed male students in university, with an average age of 25.5 years. Spectral analysis was performed on the EEG collected at the beginning and the end of the experiment to derive feature parameters reflecting mental fatigue. As a result of the analysis, the absolute power of the alpha band in the occipital lobe and the temporal lobe increased as the mental fatigue increased, while the relative power decreased. Also, the difference in power between resting state and task state showed that the relative power was larger than the absolute power. These results indicate that alpha relative power in the occipital lobe and temporal lobe is a feature parameter reflecting mental fatigue. The results of this study can be utilized as feature parameters for the development of an automated system for mental fatigue determination such as fatigue and drowsiness while driving.},

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@article{lim2021superior,

title = {Superior Facilitation of an Action Observation Network by Congruent Character Movements in Brain--Computer Interface Action-Observation Games},

author = {Hyunmi Lim and Jeonghun Ku},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0231},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-04},

journal = {Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking},

volume = {24},

number = {8},

pages = {566--572},

publisher = {Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 140 Huguenot Street, 3rd Floor New~…},

abstract = {Action observation (AO) is a promising strategy for promoting motor function in neural rehabilitation. Recently, brain–computer interface (BCI)-AO game rehabilitation, which combines AO therapy with BCI technology, has been introduced to improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation. This approach can improve motor learning by providing feedback, which can be interactive in an observation task, and the game contents of the BCI-AO game paradigm can affect rehabilitation. In this study, the effects of congruent rather than incongruent feedback in a BCI-AO game on mirror neurons were investigated. Specifically, the mu suppression with congruent and incongruent BCI-AO games was measured in 17 healthy adults. The mu suppression in the central motor cortex was significantly higher with the congruent BCI-AO game than with the incongruent one. In addition, the satisfaction evaluation results were excellent for the congruent case. These results support the fact that providing feedback congruent with the motion of an action video facilitates mirror neuron activity and can offer useful guidelines for the design of BCI-AO games for rehabilitation},

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@article{lin2021age,

title = {Age-related differences in alpha and beta band activity in sensory association brain areas during challenging sensory tasks},

author = {Chun-Ling Lin and Ya-Wen Hsieh and Hui-Ya Chen},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113279},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-06-25},

journal = {Behavioural Brain Research},

volume = {408},

pages = {113279},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Sensory challenges to postural balance are daily threats for elderly individuals. This study examined electroencephalography (EEG) in alpha and beta bands in sensory association areas during the Sensory Organization Test, involving withdrawal of visual or presenting misleading somatosensory inputs, in twelve young and twelve elderly participants. The results showed stepwise deterioration in behavioral performance in four conditions, with group effects that were amplified with combined sensory challenges. With eye closure, alpha and beta activities increased in all sensory association areas. Fast beta activity increased in the bilateral parietal-temporal-occipital areas. Misleading somatosensory information effects on EEG activity were of smaller amplitude than eye closure effects and in a different direction. Decreased alpha activity in left parietal-temporal-occipital areas and decreased beta and fast beta activities in bilateral parietal-temporal-occipital areas were significant. Elderly participants had increased fast beta activity in the left temporal-occipital and bilateral occipital areas, indicative of sustained efforts that they made in all sensory conditions. Similar to the young participants, elderly participants with eyes closed showed increased alpha activity, although to a smaller degree, in bilateral temporal-occipital and left occipital areas. This might indicate a lack of efficacy in redistributing relative sensory weights when elderly participants dealt with eye closure. In summary, EEG power changes did not match the stepwise deterioration in behavioral data, but reflected different sensory strategies adopted by young and elderly participants to cope with eye closure or misleading somatosensory information based on the efficacy of these different strategies.},

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