Visual perception and frontal lobe in intellectual disabilities: A study with evoked potentials and neuropsychology

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1116-1129

  Munoz Ruata J ^a,b   Caro Martinez E ^a   Martinez Perez L ^a,c   Borja, M ^c,d  

^a Fundación Promiva   (Spain)

^b Universidad Complutense de Madrid   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Plant Biotechnology Laboratory   (Spain)

Author keywords

ERPs; Frontal; Intellectual disability; N1; Simultanagnosia; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; SEMANTICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649539916     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01341.x     Document Type: Article

References (110)

1. Almasy L., Porjesz B., Blangero J., Chorlian D. B., O'Connor S. J., Kuperman S. et al. (1999) Heritability of event-related brain potentials in families with a history of alcoholism. American Journal of Medical Genetics 88, 383-90.
2. Altenmüller E. O., Münte T. F. & Gerloff C. (2004) Neurocognitive functions and the EEG. In: Electroencephalography. Basic Principles, Clinical Applications and Related Fields (eds E. Niedermeyer & F. Lopes Da Silva ), pp. 661-77. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA.
3. American Psychiatric Association (2000) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC.
4. Anllo-Vento L. & Hillyard S. A. (1996) Selective attention to the color and direction of moving stimuli: electrophysiological correlates of hierarchical feature selection. Perception & Psychophysics 58, 191-206.
5. Asanuma C., Andersen R. A. & Cowan W. M. (1985) The thalamic relations of the caudal inferior parietal lobule and the lateral prefrontal cortex in monkeys: divergent cortical projections from cell clusters in the medial pulvinar nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 241, 357-81.
6. Barcelo P., Suwazono S. & Knight R. T. (2000) Prefrontal modulation of visual processing in humans. Nature Neuroscience 3, 399-40.
7. Barry W. & Ertl J. (1966) Brain waves and human intelligence. In: Modern Educational Developments: Another Look (ed. F. B. Davis ), pp. 191-7. Educational Records Bureau, New York.
8. Bender L. (1981) Test Guestaltico Viso-motor: Usos y aplicaciones clínicas. Paidós, Barcelona.
9. Boussaoud D., Di Pellegrino G. & Wise S. P. (1995) Frontal lobe mechanisms subserving vision-for-action versus vision-for-perception. Behavioural Brain Research 72, 1-15.
10. Brannan J. R., Solan H. A. & Ficarra A. P. (1998) Effect of luminance on visual evoked potential amplitudes in normal and disabled readers. Optometry and Vision Science 75, 279-83.
11. Brecelj J., Strucl M. & Raic V. (1996) Do visual neurophysiological tests reflect magnocellular deficit in dyslexic children? Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology 431, 299-300.
12. Brodeur M., Lepore F., Lepage M., Bacon B. A., Jemel B. & Debruille J. B. (2008) Alternative mode of presentation of Kanizsa figures sheds new light on the chronometry of the mechanisms underlying the perception of illusory figures. Neuropsychologia 46, 554-66.
13. Bunge S. A., Kahn I., Wallis J. D., Miller E. K. & Wagner A. D. (2003) Neural circuits subserving the retrieval and maintenance of abstract rules. Journal of Neurophysiology 90, 3419-28.
14. Bunge S. A., Burrows B. & Wagner A. D. (2004) Prefrontal and hippocampal contributions to visual associative recognition: interactions between cognitive control and episodic retrieval. Brain and Cognition 56, 141-52.
15. Bunge S. A., Wendelken C., Badre D. & Wagner A. D. (2005) Analogical reasoning and prefrontal cortex: evidence for separable retrieval and integration mechanisms. Cerebral Cortex 15, 239-49.
16. Carlin M. T., Soraci S. A., Strawbridge C. P., Dennis N., Loiselle R. & Chechile N. A. (2003) Detection of changes in naturalistic scenes: comparisons of individuals with and without mental retardation. American Journal of Mental Retardation 108, 181-93.
17. Cavada C. & Goldman-Rakic P. S. (1989) Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: II. Evidence for segregated corticocortical networks linking sensory and limbic areas with the frontal lobe. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 287, 422-45.
18. Cavada C., Compañy T., Tejedor J., Cruz-Rizzolo R. J. & Reinoso-Suárez F. (2000) The anatomical connections of the macaque monkey orbitofrontal cortex. A review. Cerebral Cortex 10, 220-42.
19. Christoff K., Prabhakaran V., Dorfman J., Zhao Z., Kroger J. K., Holyoak K. J. et al. (2001) Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex involvement in relational integration during reasoning. Neuroimage 14, 1136-49.
20. Colarusso R. & Hammill D. (1980) Test de percepción Visual no Motriz. Panamericana, Buenos Aires.
21. Courbois Y. (1996) Evidence for visual imagery deficits in persons with mental retardation. American Journal of Mental Retardation 101, 130-48.
22. Crone E. A., Wendelken C., Van Leijenhorst L., Honomichl R. D., Christoff K. & Bunge S. A. (2009) Neurocognitive development of relational reasoning. Developmental Science 12, 55-66.
23. Csibra G., Kushnerenko E. & Grossmann T. (2008) Electrophysiological methods in studying infant cognitive development. In: Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (eds C. Nelson & M. Luciana ), pp. 247-62. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
24. Donchin E., Ritter W. & Mc Callum W. C. (1978) Cognitive psychophysiology: the endogenous components of the ERP. In: Event Related Brain Potentials in Man (eds E. Callaway, P. Tueting & S. H. Koslow ), pp. 349-412. Academic Press, New York.
25. Doniger G. M., Foxe J. J., Schroeder C. E., Murray M. M., Higgins B. A. & Javitt D. C. (2001) Visual perceptual learning in human object recognition areas: a repetition priming study using high-density electrical mapping. Neuroimage 13, 305-13.
26. Ellis N. R. (1963) Handbook of Mental Deficiency: Psychological Theory and Research. McGraw-Hill, New York.
27. Farah M. J. (2004) Visual Agnosia. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 78pp.
28. Fox R. & Oross S. III (1988) Deficits in stereoscopic depth perception by mildly mentally retarded adults. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 93, 232-44.
29. Fox R. & Oross S. III (1992) Perceptual deficits in mildly mentally retarded adults. In: International Review of Research in Mental Retardation (ed. N. W. Bray ), pp. 1-27. Academic Press, New York.
30. Foxe J. J. & Simpson G. V. (2002) Flow of activation from V1 to frontal cortex in humans. A framework for defining 'early' visual processing. Experimental Brain Research 142, 139-50.
31. Fu S., Zinni M., Squire P. N., Kumar R., Caggiano D. M. & Parasuraman R. (2008) When and where perceptual load interacts with voluntary visuospatial attention: an event-related potential and dipole modeling study. Neuroimage 39, 1345-55.
32. Fuster J. M. (2008) The Prefrontal Cortex. Academic Press, London, 258pp.
33. Garey L. F., Dreher B. & Robinson S. R. (1991) The organization of the visual thalamus. In: Vision and Visual Dysfunction. Vol. 3: Neuro-anatomy of the Visual Pathways and Their Development (eds B. Dreher & S. R. Robinson ; series ed. J. R. Cronly-Dillon ), pp. 176-234. CRC Press Inc, Boca Raton, FL.
34. Gasser T., Pietz J., Schellberg D. & Köhler W. (1988) Visual evoked potentials of mildly mentally retarded and control children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 30, 638-45.
35. Gasser T., Rousson V. & Schreiter Gasser U. (2003) EEG power and coherence in children with educational problems. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 20, 273-82.
36. Gonzalez-Rosa J. J., Vazquez-Marrufo M., Vaquero E., Duque P., Borges M., Gamero M. A. et al. (2006) Differential cognitive impairment for diverse forms of multiple sclerosis. BMC Neuroscience 19, 7-39.
37. Goodale M. A. & Milner A. D. (1992) Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Trends in Neurosciences 15, 20-5.
38. Green A. E., Fugelsang J. A., Kraemer D. J., Shamosh N. A. & Dunbar K. N. (2006) Frontopolar cortex mediates abstract integration in analogy. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 1096, 125-37.
39. Gregoriou G. G., Gotts S. J., Zhou H. & Desimone R. (2009) High-frequency, long-range coupling between prefrontal and visual cortex during attention. Science 324, 1207-10.
40. Grice S. J., Haan M. D., Halit H., Johnson M. H., Csibra G., Grant J. et al. (2003) ERP abnormalities of illusory contour perception in Williams syndrome. Neuroreport 14, 1773-7.
41. Haier R. J., Robinson D. L., Braden W. & Williams D. (1983) Electrical potentials of cerebral cortex and psychometric intelligence. Personality and Individual differences 4, 591-629.
42. Hakamada S., Watanabe K., Hara K. & Miyazaki S. (1981) The evolution of visual and auditory evoked potentials in infants with perinatal disorder. Brain & Development 3, 339-44.
43. Harter M. R., Anllo-Vento L. & Wood F. B. (1989) Event-related potentials, spatial orienting, and reading disabilities. Psychophysiology 26, 404-21.
44. Heinze H. J., Luck S. J., Mangun G. R. & Hillyard S. A. (1990) Visual event-related potentials index focused attention within bilateral stimulus arrays.I Evidence for early selection. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 75, 511-27.
45. Hermelin B. & O'Connor N. (1961a) Shape perception and reproduction in normal children and mongol and non-mongol imbeciles. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research 5, 67-71.
46. Hermelin B. & O'Connor N. (1961b) Recognition of shapes by normal and subnormal children. British Journal of Psychology 52, 281-4.
47. Herrmann C. S. & Bosch V. (2001) Gestalt perception modulates early visual processing. Neuroreport 12, 901-4.
48. Jeannerod M. & Jacob P. (2005) Visual cognition: a new look at the two-visual systems model. Neuropsychologia 43, 301-12.
49. Johannes S., Münte T. F., Heinze H. J. & Mangun G. R. (1995) Luminance and spatial attention effects on early visual processing. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 2, 189-205.
50. Kehrer S., Kraft A., Irlbacher K., Koch S. P., Hagendorf H., Kathmann N. et al. (2009) Electrophysiological evidence for cognitive control during conflict processing in visual spatial attention. Psychological Research 73, 751-61.
51. Kirk S. A., Mccarthy J. J. & Kirk W. D. (2004) ITPA (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities). TEA, Madrid.
52. Klem G. H., Lüders H. O., Jasper H. H. & Elger C. (1999) The ten-twenty electrode system of International Federation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 52, 3-6.
53. Koppitz E. M. (1994) El test de Bender. Guadalupe, Buenos Aires.
54. Lezak M. D., Howieson D. B. & Loring D. W. (2004) Neuropsychological Assessment. Oxford University Press, New York, 243pp.
55. Luck S. J. & Hillyard S. A. (1995) The role of attention in feature detection and conjunction discrimination: an electrophysiological analysis. International Journal of Neuroscience 80, 281-97.
56. Luck S. J., Hillyard S. A., Mouloua M., Woldorff M. G., Clark V. P. & Hawkins H. L. (1994) Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 20, 887-904.
57. Lundberg C. (2003) Older Drivers with Cognitive Impairments: Issues of Detection and Assessment. (Doctoral dissertation). Kongliga Carolinska Medico Chirurgiska Institutet, Stockholm.
58. Lux J. P. (1977) Detection of learning disabilities using the visual evoked cortical potential. Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology 14, 248-53.
59. Makeig S., Westerfield M., Townsend J., Jung T. P., Courchesne E. & Sejnowski T. J. (1999) Functionally independent components of early event-related potentials in a visual spatial attention task. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 354, 1135-44.
60. Marois R., Chun M. & M Gore J. C. (2004) A Common Parieto-Frontal Network Is Recruited Under Both Low Visibility and High Perceptual Interference Conditions. Journal of Neurophysiology 92, 2985-92.
61. Martín-Loeches M., Muñoz-Ruata J., Martínez-Lebrusant L. & Gómez-Jarabo G. (2001) Electrophysiology and intelligence: the electrophysiology of intellectual functions in intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 45, 63-75.
62. Mulert C, Menzinger E., Leicht G., Pogarell O., Hegerl U. (2005) Evidence for a close relationship between conscious effort and anterior cingulate cortex activity. International Journal of Psychophysiology 56, 65-80.
63. Muñoz-Ruata J., Gómez-Jarabo G., Martín-Loeches M. & Martínez-Lebrusant L. (2000) Neurophysiological and neuropsychological differences related to performance and verbal abilities in subjects with mild intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 44, 567-78.
64. Neville H. J. & Lawson D L. (1987) Attention to central and peripheral visual space in a movement detection task: an event-related potential and behavioral study. I. Normal hearing adults. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 405, 253-67.
65. O'Connor N. & Hermelin B. (1961) Visual and stereognostic shape recognition in normal children and mongol and non-mongol imbeciles. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research 5, 63-6.
66. Olvet D. M. & Hajcak G. (2009a) The effect of trial-to-trial feedback on the error-related negativity and its relationship with anxiety. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 9, 427-33.
67. Olvet D. M. & Hajcak G. (2009b) Reliability of error-related brain activity. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 1284, 89-99.
68. Osaka M. & Osaka N. (1980) Human intelligence and power spectral analysis of visual evoked potentials. Perceptual and Motor Skills 50, 192-4.
69. Patterson B. W., Sinha R., Williams H. L., Parsons O. A., Smith L. T. & Schaeffer K. W. (1989) The relationship between neuropsychological and late component evoked potential measures in chronic alcoholics. International Journal of Neuroscience 49, 319-27.
70. Paz-Caballero M. D. & García-Austt E. (1992) ERP components related to stimulus selection processes. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 82, 369-76.
71. Petrides M. & Pandya D. N. (1999) Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: comparative cytoarchitectonic analysis in the human and the macaque brain and corticocortical connection patterns. European Journal of Neuroscience 11, 1011-36.
72. Pietz J., Meyding-Lamadé U. K. & Schmidt H. (1996) Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in adolescents with phenylketonuria and in one case of 6-pyruvoyl tetrahydropteridine synthase deficiency. European Journal of Pediatrics 155, S69-73.
73. Pineda J. A., Sebestyen G. & Nava C. (1994) Face recognition as a function of social attention in non human primates: an ERP study. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 2, 1-12.
74. Proverbio A. M. & Zani A. (2002) Electrophysiological indexes of illusory contours perception in humans. Neuropsychologia 40, 479-91.
75. Proverbio A. M., Del Zotto M. & Zani A. (2007) The emergence of semantic categorization in early visual processing: ERP indices of animal vs. artifact recognition. BMC Neuroscience 5, 8-24.
76. Prox V., Dietrich D. E., Zhang Y., Emrich H. M. & Ohlmeier M. D. (2007) Attentional processing in adults with ADHD as reflected by event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters 419, 236-41.
77. Psatta D. M. (1981) Visual evoked potential habituation in mental deficiency. Biological Psychiatry 16, 729-40.
78. Reza F., Ikoma K., Takeya I., Chuma T. & Mano Y. (2003) Correlation between neuropsychological states and event-related potentials in posttraumatic brain injury patients. (JSEK) Hyogo College of Medicine 28-29, 1-4.
79. Sandman C. A. & Barron J. L. (1986) Parameters of the event-related potential are related to functioning in the mentally retarded. International Journal of Neuroscience 29, 37-44.
80. Saron C. D., Schroeder C. E., Foxe J. J. & Vaughan H. G. (2001) Visual activation of frontal cortex: segregation from occipital activity. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 12, 75-88.
81. Schall J. D. (1997) Visuomotor areas of the frontal lobe. In: Cerebral Cortex. Vol. 12, Extrastriate Cortex in Primates (eds E. G. Jones, A. Peters, series eds K. S. Rockland, J. H. Kaas & A. Peters ), pp. 527-638. Plenum, New York.
82. Schulman-Galambos C. & Galambos R. (1978) Cortical responses from adults and infants to complex visual stimuli. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 45, 425-35.
83. Schulte-Körne G., Bartling J., Deimel W. & Remschmidt H. (1999) Attenuated hemispheric lateralization in dyslexia: evidence of a visual processing deficit. Neuroreport 10, 3697-701.
84. Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Javitt D. C. & Foxe J. J. (2006) Spatiotemporal dynamics of human object recognition processing: an integrated high-density electrical mapping and functional imaging study of 'closure' processes. Neuroimage 29, 605-18.
85. Senkowski D., Röttger S., Grimm S., Foxe J. J. & Herrmann C. S. (2005) Kanizsa subjective figures capture visual spatial attention: evidence from electrophysiological and behavioral data. Neuropsychologia 43, 872-86.
86. Seymour K., Karnath H. O. & Himmelbach M. (2008) Perceptual grouping in the human brain: common processing of different cues. Neuroreport 19, 1769-72.
87. Shoji H., Shinoda H. & Ozaki H. (2002) The useful visual field and ERP topography in persons with intelectual disabilities. International Congress Series: Recent Advances in Human Brain Mapping 1232, 723-8.
88. Shucard D. W. & Horn J. L. (1972) Evoked Cortical Potentials and Measurement of Human Abilities. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 78, 59-68.
89. Sinha R., Bernardy N. & Parsons O. A. (1992) Long-term test-retest reliability of event-related potentials in normals and alcoholics. Biological Psychiatry 32, 992-1003.
90. Smit D. J., Posthuma D., Boomsma D. I. & De Geus E. J. (2007) Heritability of anterior and posterior visual N1. International Journal of Psychophysiology 66, 196-204.
91. Stiers P., De Cock P. & Vandenbussche E. (1999) Separating visual perception and non-verbal intelligence in children with early brain injury. Brain and Development 21, 397-406.
92. Stiers P., Van Den Hout B. M., Haers M., Vanderkelen R., De Vries L. S., Van Nieuwenhuizen O. et al. (2001) The variety of visual perceptual impairments in pre-school children with perinatal brain damage. Brain and Development 23, 333-48.
93. Strandburg R. J., Marsh J. T., Brown W. S., Asarnow R. F. & Guthrie D. (1984) Event-related potential concomitants of information processing dysfunction in schizophrenic children. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 57, 236-53.
94. Strauss E., Sherman E. & Spreen O. A. (2006) Compendium of Neuropsychological Test: Administration, Norms, and Comentary. Oxford University Press, New York, 340pp.
95. Summerfield C., Egner T., Greene M., Koechlin E., Mangels J. & Hirsch J. (2006) Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex. Science 314, 1311-14.
96. Talsma D. & Kok A. (2002) Intermodal spatial attention differs between vision and audition: an event-related potential analysis. Psychophysiology 39, 689-706.
97. Thatcher R. W., North D. & Biver C. (2005) EEG and intelligence: relations between EEG coherence, EEG phase delay and power. Clinical neurophysiology 116, 2129-41.
98. Thun-Hohenstein L., Schmitt B., Steinlin H., Martin E. & Boltshauser E. (1992) Cortical visual impairment following bacterial meningitis: magnetic resonance imaging and visual evoked potentials findings in two cases. European Journal of Pediatrics 151, 779-82.
99. Trejo L. J., Kramer A. F. & Arnold J. A. (1995) Event-related potentials as indices of display-monitoring performance. Biological Psychology 40, 33-71.
100. Vogel E. K. & Luck S. J. (2000) The visual N1 component as an index of a discrimination process. Psychophysiology 37, 190-203.
101. Wagner A. D., Paré-Blagoev E. J., Clark J. & Poldrack R. A. (2001) Recovering meaning: left prefrontal cortex guides controlled semantic retrieval. Neuron 31, 329-38.
102. Wang G. & Kameda S. (2005) Event-related potential component associated with the recognition of three-dimensional objects. Neuroreport 16, 767-71.
103. Warren L. R. & Wideman S. S. (1983) Event-related potentials to match and mismatch letters in an immediate item recognition task. International Journal of Neuroscience 18, 191-8.
104. Watemberg N., Gandelman R., Neufeld M. Y., Ginsberg M., Lerman-Sagie T. & Kramer U. (2003) Clinical correlates of frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity in children. Journal of Child Neurology 18, 525-9.
105. Wechsler D. (2005) Escala de Inteligencia de Wechsler para Niños-IV. TEA Ediciones S. A., Madrid.
106. Wijers A. A., Mulder G., Van Hooff H., Lange J., Peters M. J. & Dunajski Z. (1993) Topography and source analysis of brain activity associated with selective spatial attention and memory search. Brain Topography 5, 383-8.
107. Wijers A. A., Lange J. J., Mulder G. & Mulder L. J. (1997) An ERP study of visual spatial attention and letter target detection for isoluminant and nonisoluminant stimuli. Psychophysiology 34, 553-65.
108. Witgert M., Salamone A. R., Strutt A. M., Jawaid A., Massman P. J., Bradshaw M. et al. (2010) Frontal-lobe mediated behavioral dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. European Journal of Neurology 17, 103-10.
109. Wright S. B., Matlen B. J., Baym C. L., Ferrer E. & Bunge S. A. (2008) Neural correlates of fluid reasoning in children and adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 1, 8.
110. Zurrón M. & Díaz F. (1995) Auditory and visual evoked potentials in individuals with organic and cultural-familial mental retardation. American Journal of Mental Retardation 100, 271-82.