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@ARTICLE{Hosseini:1027012,
author = {Hosseini, Mahan and Zivony, Alon and Eimer, Martin and
Wyble, Brad and Bowman, Howard},
title = {{T}ransient {A}ttention {G}ates {A}ccess {C}onsciousness:
{C}oupling {N}2pc and {P}3 {L}atencies using {D}ynamic
{T}ime {W}arping},
journal = {The journal of neuroscience},
volume = {44},
number = {26},
issn = {0270-6474},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-03578},
pages = {e1798232024 -},
year = {2024},
note = {This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under (Grant Agreement No. 896192 to A.Z.) and from the
Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No. ES/V002708/1
to M.E.).},
abstract = {The N2pc $\&$ P3 Event-Related Potentials (ERPs), used to
index selective attention and access to working memory and
conscious awareness, respectively, have been important tools
in cognitive sciences. Although it is likely that these two
components and the underlying cognitive processes are
temporally and functionally linked, such links have not yet
been convincingly demonstrated. Adopting a novel
methodological approach based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW),
we provide evidence that the N2pc and P3 ERP components are
temporally linked. We analysed data from an experiment where
23 participants (16 women) monitored bilateral rapid serial
streams of letters and digits in order to report a target
digit indicated by a shape cue, separately for trials with
correct responses and trials where a temporally proximal
distractor was reported instead (distractor intrusion). DTW
analyses revealed that N2pc and P3 latencies were correlated
in time, both when the target or a distractor was reported.
Notably, this link was weaker on distractor intrusion
trials. This N2pc-P3 association is discussed with respect
to the relationship between attention and access
consciousness. Our results demonstrate that our novel method
provides a valuable approach for assessing temporal links
between two cognitive processes and their underlying
modulating factors. This method allows to establish links
and their modulator for any two time-series across all
domains of the field (general-purpose MATLAB functions and a
Python module are provided alongside this
paper).Significance Statement We provide evidence for a
temporal link between two important Event Related Potential
components, the N2pc and P3.We establish that the N2pc-P3
link is stronger after correct responses, which provides a
new perspective on how links between attention and WM
encoding affect the quality of performance and the content
of access consciousness.We demonstrate that our Dynamic Time
Warping (DTW) based method can be adopted to identify yet
unknown factors modulating the relationship between two
cognitive processes. This method is able to assess temporal
links between two time-series of any kind. Thus, it carries
the potential to establish a wide-range of still unknown
temporal links between two cognitive processes (and their
modulating factors) across all domains of the field.},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {5252 - Brain Dysfunction and Plasticity (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5252},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {38789261},
UT = {WOS:001257817300004},
doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1798-23.2024},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1027012},
}