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@ARTICLE{Schiffer:255903,
author = {Schiffer, A. M. and Nevado-Holgado, A. and Johnen, A. and
Schönberger, A. R. and Fink, G. R. and Schubotz, R. R.},
title = {{I}ntact action segmentation in {P}arkinson's disease:
hypothesis testing using a novel computational approach.},
journal = {Neuropsychologia},
volume = {78},
issn = {0028-3932},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-06005},
pages = {29-40},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Action observation is known to trigger predictions of the
ongoing course of action and thus considered a hallmark
example for predictive perception. A related task, which
explicitly taps into the ability to predict actions based on
their internal representations, is action segmentation; the
task requires participants to demarcate where one action
step is completed and another one begins. It thus benefits
from a temporally precise prediction of the current action.
Formation and exploitation of these temporal predictions of
external events is now closely associated with a network
including the basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex.Because
decline of dopaminergic innervation leads to impaired
function of the basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex in
Parkinson's disease (PD), we hypothesised that PD patients
would show increased temporal variability in the action
segmentation task, especially under medication withdrawal
(hypothesis 1).Another crucial aspect of action segmentation
is its reliance on a semantic representation of actions.
There is no evidence to suggest that action representations
are substantially altered, or cannot be accessed, in
non-demented PD patients. We therefore expected action
segmentation judgments to follow the same overall patterns
in PD patients and healthy controls (hypothesis 2),
resulting in comparable segmentation profiles. Both
hypotheses were tested with a novel classification
approach.We present evidence for both hypotheses in the
present study: classifier performance was slightly decreased
when it was tested for its ability to predict the identity
of movies segmented by PD patients, and a measure of
normativity of response behaviour was decreased when
patients segmented movies under medication-withdrawal
without access to an episodic memory of the sequence. This
pattern of results is consistent with hypothesis 1. However,
the classifier analysis also revealed that responses given
by patients and controls create very similar action-specific
patterns, thus delivering evidence in favour hypothesis 2.In
terms of methodology, the use of classifiers in the present
study allowed us to establish similarity of behaviour across
groups (hypothesis 2). The approach opens up a new avenue
that standard statistical methods often fail to provide and
is discussed in terms of its merits to measure hypothesised
similarities across study populations},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000365053800004},
pubmed = {pmid:26432343},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.09.034},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/255903},
}