Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study
Cognitive conflict effects are well characterized within unimodality. However, little is known about cross-modal conflicts and their neural bases. This study characterizes the two types of visual and auditory cross-modal conflicts through working memory tasks and brain activities. The participants c...
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| author | Jiahong Cui Daisuke Sawamura Satoshi Sakuraba Ryuji Saito Yoshinobu Tanabe Hiroshi Miura Masaaki Sugi Kazuki Yoshida Akihiro Watanabe Yukina Tokikuni Susumu Yoshida Shinya Sakai |
| author_facet | Jiahong Cui Daisuke Sawamura Satoshi Sakuraba Ryuji Saito Yoshinobu Tanabe Hiroshi Miura Masaaki Sugi Kazuki Yoshida Akihiro Watanabe Yukina Tokikuni Susumu Yoshida Shinya Sakai |
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| description | Cognitive conflict effects are well characterized within unimodality. However, little is known about cross-modal conflicts and their neural bases. This study characterizes the two types of visual and auditory cross-modal conflicts through working memory tasks and brain activities. The participants consisted of 31 healthy, right-handed, young male adults. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) and the Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) were performed under distractor and no distractor conditions. Distractor conditions comprised two conditions in which either the PASAT or PVSAT was the target task, and the other was used as a distractor stimulus. Additionally, oxygenated hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) concentration changes in the frontoparietal regions were measured during tasks. The results showed significantly lower PASAT performance under distractor conditions than under no distractor conditions, but not in the PVSAT. Oxy-Hb changes in the bilateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and inferior parietal cortex (IPC) significantly increased in the PASAT with distractor compared with no distractor conditions, but not in the PVSAT. Furthermore, there were significant positive correlations between Δtask performance accuracy and ΔOxy-Hb in the bilateral IPC only in the PASAT. Visual cross-modal conflict significantly impairs auditory task performance, and bilateral VLPFC and IPC are key regions in inhibiting visual cross-modal distractors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-379c109f90c74407a50b8a631b48cb572023-11-24T00:37:51ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252022-03-0112334910.3390/brainsci12030349Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy StudyJiahong Cui0Daisuke Sawamura1Satoshi Sakuraba2Ryuji Saito3Yoshinobu Tanabe4Hiroshi Miura5Masaaki Sugi6Kazuki Yoshida7Akihiro Watanabe8Yukina Tokikuni9Susumu Yoshida10Shinya Sakai11Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Sapporo 061-0293, JapanGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation, Shinsapporo Paulo Hospital, Sapporo 004-0002, JapanGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation, Tokeidai Memorial Hospital, Sapporo 060-0031, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Sapporo 061-0293, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, JapanCognitive conflict effects are well characterized within unimodality. However, little is known about cross-modal conflicts and their neural bases. This study characterizes the two types of visual and auditory cross-modal conflicts through working memory tasks and brain activities. The participants consisted of 31 healthy, right-handed, young male adults. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) and the Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) were performed under distractor and no distractor conditions. Distractor conditions comprised two conditions in which either the PASAT or PVSAT was the target task, and the other was used as a distractor stimulus. Additionally, oxygenated hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) concentration changes in the frontoparietal regions were measured during tasks. The results showed significantly lower PASAT performance under distractor conditions than under no distractor conditions, but not in the PVSAT. Oxy-Hb changes in the bilateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and inferior parietal cortex (IPC) significantly increased in the PASAT with distractor compared with no distractor conditions, but not in the PVSAT. Furthermore, there were significant positive correlations between Δtask performance accuracy and ΔOxy-Hb in the bilateral IPC only in the PASAT. Visual cross-modal conflict significantly impairs auditory task performance, and bilateral VLPFC and IPC are key regions in inhibiting visual cross-modal distractors.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/349cross-modal conflictventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC)inferior parietal cortex (IPC)functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT)Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) |
| spellingShingle | Jiahong Cui Daisuke Sawamura Satoshi Sakuraba Ryuji Saito Yoshinobu Tanabe Hiroshi Miura Masaaki Sugi Kazuki Yoshida Akihiro Watanabe Yukina Tokikuni Susumu Yoshida Shinya Sakai Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study Brain Sciences cross-modal conflict ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) inferior parietal cortex (IPC) functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) |
| title | Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study |
| title_full | Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study |
| title_fullStr | Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study |
| title_short | Effect of Audiovisual Cross-Modal Conflict during Working Memory Tasks: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study |
| title_sort | effect of audiovisual cross modal conflict during working memory tasks a near infrared spectroscopy study |
| topic | cross-modal conflict ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) inferior parietal cortex (IPC) functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) Paced Visual Serial Addition Test (PVSAT) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/3/349 |
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