Simonet Marie, Ruggeri Paolo, Barral Jérôme
Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Brain Electrophysiology Attention Movement Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2020 Dec 3;14:600667. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.600667. eCollection 2020.
Motor inhibitory control (IC), the ability to suppress unwanted actions, has been previously shown to rely on domain-general IC processes that are involved in a wide range of IC tasks. Nevertheless, the existence of effector-specific regions and activation patterns that would differentiate manual vs. oculomotor response inhibition remains unknown. In this study, we investigated the brain dynamics supporting these two response effectors with the same IC task paradigm. We examined the behavioral performance and electrophysiological activity in a group of healthy young people ( = 25) with a Go/NoGo task using the index finger for the manual modality and the eyes for the oculomotor modality. By computing topographic analysis of variance, we found significant differences between topographies of scalp recorded potentials of the two response effectors between 250 and 325 ms post-stimulus onset. The source estimations localized this effect within the left precuneus, a part of the superior parietal lobule, showing stronger activity in the oculomotor modality than in the manual modality. Behaviorally, we found a significant positive correlation in response time between the two modalities. Our collective results revealed that while domain-general IC processes would be engaged across different response effectors in the same IC task, effector-specific activation patterns exist. In this case, the stronger activation of the left precuneus likely accounts for the increased demand for visual attentional processes in the oculomotor Go/NoGo task.
运动抑制控制(IC),即抑制不必要动作的能力,先前已被证明依赖于涉及广泛IC任务的领域通用IC过程。然而,区分手动与动眼反应抑制的效应器特异性区域和激活模式是否存在仍不清楚。在本研究中,我们使用相同的IC任务范式研究了支持这两种反应效应器的脑动力学。我们让一组健康的年轻人(n = 25)进行了一项“Go/NoGo”任务,在手动模式下使用食指,在动眼模式下使用眼睛,以此来检查他们的行为表现和电生理活动。通过计算头皮记录电位的地形方差分析,我们发现在刺激开始后250至325毫秒之间,两种反应效应器的头皮记录电位地形存在显著差异。源估计将这种效应定位在左楔前叶内,即顶上小叶的一部分,动眼模式下的活动比手动模式下更强。在行为上,我们发现两种模式之间的反应时间存在显著的正相关。我们的总体结果表明,虽然在相同的IC任务中,领域通用IC过程会在不同的反应效应器中起作用,但效应器特异性激活模式是存在的。在这种情况下,左楔前叶更强的激活可能解释了动眼“Go/NoGo”任务中对视觉注意过程的需求增加。