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@ARTICLE{Langner:19836,
author = {Langner, R. and Eickhoff, S.B. and Steinborn, M.},
title = {{M}ental {F}atigue {M}odulates {D}ynamic {A}daptation to
{P}erceptual {D}emand in {S}peeded {D}etection},
journal = {PLoS one},
volume = {6},
issn = {1932-6203},
address = {Lawrence, Kan.},
publisher = {PLoS},
reportid = {PreJuSER-19836},
pages = {e28399},
year = {2011},
note = {SBE was supported by the Human Brain Project
(R01-MH074457-01A1), the Initiative and Networking Fund of
the Helmholtz Association within the Helmholtz Alliance on
Systems Biology (Human Brain Model), and the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (IRTG 1328). The funders had no role
in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript.},
abstract = {When stimulus intensity in simple reaction-time tasks
randomly varies across trials, detection speed usually
improves after a low-intensity trial. With auditory stimuli,
this improvement was often found to be asymmetric, being
greater on current low-intensity trials. Our study
investigated (1) whether asymmetric sequential intensity
adaptation also occurs with visual stimuli; (2) whether
these adjustments reflect decision-criterion shifts or,
rather, a modulation of perceptual sensitivity; and (3) how
sequential intensity adaptation and its underlying
mechanisms are affected by mental fatigue induced through
prolonged performance. In a continuous speeded detection
task with randomly alternating high- and low-intensity
visual stimuli, the reaction-time benefit after
low-intensity trials was greater on subsequent low- than
high-intensity trials. This asymmetry, however, only
developed with time on task (TOT). Signal-detection analyses
showed that the decision criterion transiently became more
liberal after a low-intensity trial, whereas observer
sensitivity increased when the preceding and current
stimulus were of equal intensity. TOT-induced mental fatigue
only affected sensitivity, which dropped more on low- than
on high-intensity trials. This differential fatigue-related
sensitivity decrease selectively enhanced the impact of
criterion down-shifts on low-intensity trials, revealing how
the interplay of two perceptual mechanisms and their
modulation by fatigue combine to produce the observed
overall pattern of asymmetric performance adjustments to
varying visual intensity in continuous speeded detection.
Our results have implications for similar patterns of
sequential demand adaptation in other cognitive domains as
well as for real-world prolonged detection performance.},
keywords = {Adaptation, Physiological / Adult / Attention: physiology /
Female / Humans / Male / Mental Fatigue: physiopathology /
Reaction Time: physiology / Signal Detection, Psychological
/ Visual Perception: physiology / Young Adult / J (WoSType)},
cin = {INM-2},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-2-20090406},
pnm = {Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems (FUEK409) /
89571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF2-89571)},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK409 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-89571},
shelfmark = {Biology},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:22145041},
pmc = {pmc:PMC3228758},
UT = {WOS:000298168900024},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0028399},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/19836},
}