When time shapes behavior: fMRI evidence of brain correlates of temporal monitoring

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1116-1126

  Vallesi, Antonino ^a   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a,b   Shallice, Tim ^c,d   Stuss, Donald T ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049126267     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21098     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Alegria, J. (1975). Sequential effects of foreperiod duration as a function of the frequency of foreperiod repetitions. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 7, 243-250.
2. Alexander, M. P., Stuss, D. T., Picton, T., Shallice, T., & Gillingham, S. (2007). Regional frontal injuries cause distinct impairments in cognitive control. Neurology, 68, 1515-1523.
3. Alexander, M. P., Stuss, D. T., Shallice, T., Picton, T. W., & Gillingham, S. (2005). Impaired concentration due to frontal lobe damage from two distinct lesion sites. Neurology, 65, 572-579.
4. Aron, A. R., Monsell, S., Sahakian, B. J., & Robbins, T. W. (2004). A componential analysis of task-switching deficits associated with lesions of left and right frontal cortex. Brain, 127, 1561-1573.
5. Baumeister, A., & Joubert, C. (1969). Interactive effects of reaction time of preparatory interval length and preparatory interval frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 82, 393-395.
6. Botvinick, M. M. (2007). Conflict monitoring and decision making: Reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 356-366.
7. Botvinick, M. M., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Carter, C. S., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychological Review, 108, 624-652.
8. Brass, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2004). Selection for cognitive control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the selection of task-relevant information. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 8847-8852. (Pubitemid 39362980)
9. Brunia, C. H., & van Boxtel, G. J. (2001). Wait and see. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 43, 59-75. (Pubitemid 33115237)
10. Cabeza, R., Dolcos, F., Graham, R., & Nyberg, L. (2002). Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory. Neuroimage, 16, 317-330.
11. Correa, A., Lupianez, J., Madrid, E., & Tudela, P. (2006). Temporal attention enhances early visual processing: A review and new evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Research, 1076, 116-128.
12. Coull, J. T., Frith, C. D., Buchel, C., & Nobre, A. C. (2000). Orienting attention in time: Behavioural and neuroanatomical distinction between exogenous and endogenous shifts. Neuropsychologia, 38, 808-819.
13. Cox, R. W. (1996). AFNI: Software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages. Computers in Biomedical Research, 29, 162-173.
14. Derfuss, J., Brass, M., & Von Cramon, D. Y. (2004). Cognitive control in the posterior frontolateral cortex: Evidence from common activations in task coordination, interference control, and working memory. Neuroimage, 23, 604-612.
15. D'Esposito, M., Aguirre, G. K., Zarahn, E., Ballard, D., Shin, R. K., & Lease, J. (1998). Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory. Brain Research, Cognitive Brain Research, 7, 1-13. (Pubitemid 28419435)
16. Dolan, R. J., & Fletcher, P. F. (1999). Encoding and retrieval in human medial temporal lobes: An empirical investigation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Hippocampus, 9, 25-34.
17. Elithorn, A., & Lawrence, C. (1955). Central inhibition: Some refractory observations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 11, 211-220.
18. Elliott, R. (1970). Simple reaction time: Effects associated with age, preparatory interval, incentive-shift, and mode of presentation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 9, 86-107.
19. Fleck, M. S., Daselaar, S. M., Dobbins, I. G., & Cabeza, R. (2006). Role of prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions in decision-making processes shared by memory and nonmemory tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 1623-1630.
20. Fletcher, P. C., Shallice, T., Frith, C. D., Frackowiak, R. S., & Dolan, R. J. (1998). The functional roles of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory: II. Retrieval. Brain, 121, 1249-1256.
21. Gehring, W. J., & Willoughby, A. R. (2002). The medial frontal cortex and the rapid processing of monetary gains and losses. Science, 295, 2279-2282.
22. Gibbon, J., Church, R. M., & Meck, W. H. (1984). Scalar timing in memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 423, 52-77.
23. Gottsdanker, R. (1970). Uncertainty, time keeping and simple reaction time. Journal of Motor Behavior, 2, 245-260.
24. Haxby, J. V., Grady, C. L., Horwitz, B., Ungerleider, L. G., Mishkin, M., Carson, R. E., et al. (1991). Dissociation of object and spatial visual processing pathways in human extrastriate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 88, 1621-1625.
25. Karlin, L. (1959). Reaction time as a function of foreperiod duration and variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 185-191.
26. Klemmer, E. T. (1957). Simple reaction time as a function of time uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 195-200.
27. Koch, G., Oliveri, M., Torriero, S., & Caltagirone, C. (2003). Underestimation of time perception after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neurology, 60, 1844-1846.
28. Koch, G., Oliveri, M., Torriero, S., Salerno, S., Lo, G. E., & Caltagirone, C. (2007). Repetitive TMS of cerebellum interferes with millisecond time processing. Experimental Brain Research, 179, 291-299.
29. Lewis, P. A., & Miall, R. C. (2003). Brain activation patterns during measurement of sub- and supra-second intervals. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1583-1592.
30. Los, S. A., & van den Heuvel, C. E. (2001). Intentional and unintentional contributions to nonspecific preparation during reaction time foreperiods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 370-386. (Pubitemid 33594804)
31. Madison, G. (2001). Variability in isochronous tapping: Higher order dependencies as a function of intertap interval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 411-422. (Pubitemid 33594807)
32. Mattes, S., & Ulrich, R. (1997). Response force is sensitive to the temporal uncertainty of response stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 1089-1097. (Pubitemid 127459237)
33. Michon, J. A., & van der Valk, N. J. (1967). A dynamic model of timing behavior. Acta Psychologica (Amsterdam), 27, 204-212.
34. Näätänen, R. (1970). The diminishing time-uncertainty with the lapse of time after the warning signal in reaction-time experiments with varying foreperiods. Acta Psychologica, 34, 399-419.
35. Naito, E., Kinomura, S., Geyer, S., Kawashima, R., Roland, P. E., & Zilles, K. (2000). Fast reaction to different sensory modalities activates common fields in the motor areas, but the anterior cingulate cortex is involved in the speed of reaction. Journal of Neurophysiology, 83, 1701-1709. (Pubitemid 30159591)
36. Nickerson, R. S. (1967). Expectancy, waiting time and the psychological refractory period. Acta Psychologica (Amsterdam), 27, 23-34.
37. Niemi, P., & Näätänen, R. (1981). Foreperiod and simple reaction time. Psychological Bulletin, 89, 133-162.
38. Nobre, A., Correa, A., & Coull, J. (2007). The hazards of time. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 17, 465-470.
39. Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113.
40. Paus, T. (2001). Primate anterior cingulate cortex: Where motor control, drive and cognition interface. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 417-424.
41. Rajah, M., Hussey, D., Houle, S., Kapur, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (1998). Task-independent effect of time on rCBF. Neuroimage, 7, 314-325.
42. Requin, J., & Granjon, M. (1969). The effect of conditional probability of the response signal on the simple reaction time. Acta Psychologica (Amsterdam), 31, 129-144.
43. Reverberi, C., Lavaroni, A., Gigli, G. L., Skrap, M., & Shallice, T. (2005). Specific impairments of rule induction in different frontal lobe subgroups. Neuropsychologia, 43, 460-472.
44. Rugg, M. D., Fletcher, P. C., Allan, K., Frith, C. D., Frackowiak, R. S., & Dolan, R. J. (1998). Neural correlates of memory retrieval during recognition memory and cued recall. Neuroimage, 8, 262-273.
45. Sanders, A. F. (1966). Expectancy: Application and measurement. Acta Psychologica (Amsterdam), 25, 293-313.
46. Schacter, D. L., Curran, T., Galluccio, L., Milberg, W. P., & Bates, J. F. (1996). False recognition and the right frontal lobe: A case study. Neuropsychologia, 34, 793-808.
47. Shallice, T., Stuss, D. T., Picton, T. W., Alexander, M. F., & Gillingham, S. (2008). Multiple effects of prefrontal lesions on task-switching. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 1, 1-12.
48. Simon, R. J., & Slaviero, D. P. (1975). Differential effects of a foreperiod countdown procedure on simple and choice reaction time. Journal of Motor Behavior, 7, 9-14.
49. Small, D. M., Gitelman, D. R., Gregory, M. D., Nobre, A. C., Parrish, T. B., & Mesulam, M. M. (2003). The posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex mediate the anticipatory allocation of spatial attention. Neuroimage, 18, 633-641.
50. Smith, M. L., & Milner, B. (1984). Differential effects of frontal-lobe lesions on cognitive estimation and spatial memory. Neuropsychologia, 22, 697-705.
51. Stilitz, I. (1972). Conditional probability and components of RT in the variable foreperiod experiment. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 24, 159-168.
52. Stuss, D. T., Alexander, M. P., Hamer, L., Palumbo, C., Dempster, R., Binns, M., et al. (1998). The effects of focal anterior and posterior brain lesions on verbal f luency. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 265-278. (Pubitemid 28339748)
53. Stuss, D. T., Alexander, M. P., Palumbo, C. L., Buckle, L., Sayer, L., & Pogue, J. (1994). Organizational strategies of patients with unilateral or bilateral frontal lobe injury in word list learning tasks. Neuropsychology, 8, 355-373.
54. Stuss, D. T., Alexander, M. P., Shallice, T., Picton, T. W., Binns, M. A., Macdonald, R., et al. (2005). Multiple frontal systems controlling response speed. Neuropsychologia, 43, 396-417.
55. Stuss, D. T., Binns, M. A., Murphy, K. J., & Alexander, M. P. (2002). Dissociations within the anterior attentional system: Effects of task complexity and irrelevant information on reaction time speed and accuracy. Neuropsychology, 16, 500-513.
56. Stuss, D. T., Shallice, T., Alexander, M. P., & Picton, T. W. (1995). A multidisciplinary approach to anterior attentional functions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 769, 191-211.
57. Talairach, J., & Tournoux, P. (1988). Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain: 3-Dimensional proportional system: An approach to cerebral imaging. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers.
58. Teichner, W. H. (1954). Recent studies of simple reaction time. Psychological Bulletin, 51, 128-149.
59. Thomas, E. A. (1967). Reaction-time studies: The anticipation and interaction of responses. British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, 20, 1-29.
60. Vallesi, A., McIntosh, A. R., Alexander, M., & Stuss, D. T. (submitted). A neural network responsible for setting the criteria for not to respond: Evidence from functional connectivity analysis.
61. Vallesi, A., Mussoni, A., Mondani, M., Budai, R., Skrap, M., & Shallice, T. (2007). The neural basis of temporal preparation: Insights from brain tumor patients. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2755-2763.
62. Vallesi, A., & Shallice, T. (2006). Prefrontal involvement in source memory: An electrophysiological investigation of accounts concerning confidence and accuracy. Brain Research, 1124, 111-125.
63. Vallesi, A., & Shallice, T. (2007). Developmental dissociations of preparation over time: Deconstructing the variable foreperiod phenomena. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1377-1388.
64. Vallesi, A., Shallice, T., & Walsh, V. (2007). Role of the prefrontal cortex in the foreperiod effect: TMS evidence for dual mechanisms in temporal preparation. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 466-474.
65. Van Oostende, S., Van Hecke, P., Sunaert, S., Nuttin, B., & Marchal, G. (1997). FMRI studies of the supplementary motor area and the premotor cortex. Neuroimage, 6, 181-190.
66. Volz, K. G., Schubotz, R. I., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2005). Variants of uncertainty in decision-making and their neural correlates. Brain Research Bulletin, 67, 403-412.
67. Woodrow, H. (1914). The measurement of attention. Psychological Monographs, 5, 1-158.
68. Yarkoni, T., Braver, T. S., Gray, J. R., & Green, L. (2005). Prefrontal brain activity predicts temporally extended decision-making behavior. Journal for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 84, 537-554.