Cognition Impairment Prior to Errors of Working Memory Based on Event-Related Potential

Cognitive impairment contributes to errors in different tasks. Poor attention and poor cognitive control are the two neural mechanisms for performance errors. A few studies have been conducted on the error mechanism of working memory. It is unclear whether the changes in memory updating, attention,...

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Published inFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience Vol. 13; p. 13
Main Authors Xiao, Yi, Wu, Jintao, Tang, Weicai, Sun, Chenhui, Ma, Feng, Guo, Lingling
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 12.02.2019
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects
Astronauts
Attention
Brain research
Cognition & reasoning
cognition impairment
Cognitive ability
cognitive control
Engineering
Event-related potentials
Memory
memory updating
Mental task performance
Neuroscience
Post traumatic stress disorder
Short term memory
Studies
Training
Traumatic brain injury
Beijing China
China
cognitive control
P3
cognition impairment
N2
working memory
attention
memory updating
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Summary:Cognitive impairment contributes to errors in different tasks. Poor attention and poor cognitive control are the two neural mechanisms for performance errors. A few studies have been conducted on the error mechanism of working memory. It is unclear whether the changes in memory updating, attention, and cognitive control can cause errors and, if so, whether they can be probed at the same time in one single task. Therefore, this study analyzed event-related potentials in a two-back working memory task. A total of 40 male participants finished the task. The differences between the error and the correct trials in amplitudes and latencies of N1, P2, N2, and P3 were analyzed. The P2 and P3 amplitudes decreased significantly in the error trials, while the N2 amplitude increased. The results showed that impaired attention, poor memory updating, and impaired cognitive control were consistently associated with the error in working memory. Furthermore, the results suggested that monitoring the neurophysiological characteristics associated with attention and cognitive control was important for studying the error mechanism and error prediction. The results also suggested that the P3 and N2 amplitudes could be used as indexes for error foreshadowing.
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Edited by: Antonella Gasbarri, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Reviewed by: Nadja Schroder, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil; Pietro Aricò, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
ISSN:1662-5153
1662-5153
DOI:10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00013