Enhancing vigilance in operators with prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 909-917

  Nelson, Jeremy T ^a,b   McKinley, R Andy ^c   Golob, Edward J ^a   Warm, Joel S ^c   Parasuraman, Raja ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Enhancement; Hemodynamics; Noninvasive brain stimulation; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; OPERATOR; OXYGENATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; ENHANCEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; NONINVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VIGILANCE;

ATTENTION; BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84889656340     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.061     Document Type: Review

References (91)

1. Alonzo A., Brassil J., Taylor J.L., Martin D., Loo C.K. Daily transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) leads to greater increases in cortical excitability than second daily transcranial direct current stimulation. Brain Stimul. 2012, 5:208-213.
2. Antal A., Nitsche M.A., et al. Facilitation of visuo-motor learning by transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor and extrastriate visual areas in humans. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2004, 19:2888-2892.
3. Barbas H. Architecture and cortical connections of the prefrontal cortex in the rhesus monkey. Advances in Neurology 1992, 91-115. Raven, New York, NY. P. Chauvel, H.V. Delgado-Escueta (Eds.).
4. Berman K.R., Weinberger D.R. Lateralization of cortical function during cognitive tasks: regional cerebral blood flow studies of normal individuals and patients with schizophrenia. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 1990, 53:150-160.
5. Bikson M., Bulow P., Stiller J.W., Datta A., Battaglia F., Karnup S.V., Postolache T.T. Transcranial direct current stimulation for major depression: a general system for quantifying transcranial electrotherapy dosage. Curr. Treat. Options. Neurol. 2008, 10(5):377-385.
6. Bikson M., Datta A., Elwassif M. Establishing safety limits for transcranial direct current stimulation. Clin. Neurophysiol. 2009, 120(6):1033-1034.
7. Bikson M., Datta A., Rahman A., Scaturro J. Electrode montage for tDCS and weak transcranial electrical stimulation: role of "return" electrode's position and size. Clin. Neurophysiol. 2010, 121(12):1976-1978.
8. Boroojerdi B., Phipps M., et al. Enhancing analogic reasoning with rTMS over the left prefrontal cortex. Neurology 2001, 56:526-528.
9. Boros K., Poreisz C., Munchau A., Paulus W., Nitsche M.A. Premotor transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) affects primary motor excitability in humans. Eur. J. Neurosci 2008, 27(5):1292-1300.
10. Buchsbaum M.S., Nuechterlein K.H., Haier R.J., Wu J., Sicotte N., Hazlett E., Asarnow R., Potkin S., Guich S. Glucose metabolic rate in normal and schizophrenics during the continuous performance test assessed by positron emission tomography. Br. J. Psychiatry 1990, 156:216-227.
11. Clark V.P., Coffman B.A., et al. TDCS guided using fMRI significantly accelerates learning to identify concealed objects. Neuroimage 2012, 59(1):117-128.
12. Cohen R.M., Semple W.E., Gross M., Holcomb H.J., Dowling S.M., Nordahl T.E. Functional localization of sustained attention. Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol. Behav. Neurol. 1988, 1:3-20.
13. Cohen R.M., Semple W.E., Gross M., King A.C., Nordahl T.E. Metabolic brain pattern of sustained auditory discrimination. Exp. Brain Res. 1992, 92:165-172.
14. Coull J.T., Frackowiak R.J., Frith C.D. Monitoring for target objects: Activation of right frontal and parietal cortices with increasing time on task. Neuropsychologia 1998, 36:1325-1334.
15. Crile G.W., Hosmer H.R., Rowland A.F. The electrical conductivity of animal tissues under normal and pathological conditions. Am. J. Physiol. 1921, 60:59-106.
16. Dasilva A.F., Mendonca M.E., Zaghi S., Lopes M., Dossantos M.F., Spierings E.L., Bajwa Z., Datta A., Bikson M., Fregni F. tDCS-induced analgesia and electrical fields in pain-related neural networks in chronic migraine. Headache 2012, 10.1111/j. 1526-4610, 2012.02141.x.
17. Davies D.R., Parasuraman R. The Psychology of Vigilance 1982, Academic Press, London.
18. Deutsch G., Papanicolaou A.C., Bourbon T., Eisenberg H.M. Cerebral blood flow evidence of right cerebral activation in attention demanding tasks. Int. J. Neurosci. 1988, 36:23-28.
19. Dimond S.J. Performance by split-brain humans on lateralized vigilance tasks. Cortex 1979, 15(1):43-50.
20. Dimond S.J. Tactual and auditory vigilance in split-brain man. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 1979, 42:70-74.
21. Falcone B., Coffman B.A., Clark V.P., Parasuraman R. Transcranial direct current stimulation augments perceptual sensitivity and 24-hour retention in a complex threat detection task. PLoS One 2012, 7(4):e34993.
22. Flöel A., Rösser N., et al. Noninvasive brain stimulation improves language learning. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2008, 20(8):1415-1422.
23. Frankmann J.P., Adams J.A. Theories of vigilance. Psychol. Bull. 1962, 59:257-272.
24. Funke M.E., Warm J.S., Matthews G., Riley M., Finomore V., Funke G.J., Knott B., Vidulich M.A. A comparison of cerebral hemovelocity and blood oxygen saturation levels during vigilance performance. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2010, 54(18):1345-1349.
25. Fuster J.M. The Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Physiology, and Neuropsychology of the Frontal Lobe 2009, Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia. 3rd ed.
26. Gálvez V., Alonzo A., Martin D., Loo C.K. Transcranial direct current stimulation treatment protocols: should stimulus intensity be constant or incremental over multiple sessions?. Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol. 2012, 10.1017/S1461145712000041.
27. Grier J.B. Nonparametric indexes for sensitivity and bias: computing formulas. Psychol. Bull. 1971, 75:424-429.
28. Helton W.S., Warm J.S. Signal salience and the mindlessness theory of vigilance. Acta Psychologia 2008, 129:18-25.
29. Helton W.S., Hollander T.D., Warm J.S., Tripp L.D., Parsons K., Matthews G., Dember W.N., Parasuraman R., Hancock P.A. The abbreviated vigilance task and cerebral hemodynamics. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 2007, 29(5):545-552.
30. Helton W.S., Hayrynen L., Schaeffer D. Sustained attention to local and global target features is different: performance and tympanic membrane temperature. Brain Cogn. 2009, 71:9-13.
31. Helton W.S., Matthews G., Warm J.S. Stress state mediation between environmental variables and performance: the case of noise and vigilance. Acta Psychologia 2009, 130:204-213.
32. Helton W.S., Warm J.S., Tripp L.D., Matthews G., Parasuraman R., Hancock P.A. Cerebral lateralization of vigilance: a function of task difficulty. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:1683-1688.
33. Jarrard L.E. On the role of the hippocampus in learning and memory in the rat. Behav. Neural Biol. 1993, 60:9-26.
34. Kahneman D. Attention and Effort 1973, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
35. Kinsbourne M. Hemispheric specialization and the growth of human understanding. Am. Psychol. 1982, 37:411-420.
36. Kincses T.Z., Antal A., Nitsche M.A., Bártfai O., Paulus W. Facilitation of probabilistic classification learning by transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex in the human. Neuropsychologia 2004, 42(1):113-117.
37. Kirschen M.P., Davis-Ratner M.S., Jerde T.E., Schraedley-Desmond P., Desmond J.E. Enhancement of phonological memory following Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Behav. Neurol. 2006, 17(3-4):187-194.
38. Lewin J.S., Friedman L., Wu D., Miller D.A., Thompson L.A., Klein S.K., Wise A.L., Hedera P., Buckley P., Meltzer H., Friedland R.P., Duerk J.L. Cortical localization of human sustained attention: detection with functional MRI using a vigilance paradigm. J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr. 1996, 20:695-701.
39. Little R.J.A., Rubin D.B. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data 2002, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. 2nd ed.
40. Luber B., Stanford A.D., Bulow P., Nguyen T., Rakitin B.C., Habeck C., Basner R., Stern Y., Lisanby S.H. Remediation of sleep-deprivation-induced working memory impairment with fMRI-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cereb. Cortex 2008, 18(9).
41. Lux S., Marshall J.C., Ritzl A., Weiss P.H., Pietrzyk U., Shah N.J., et al. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of local/global processing with stimulus presentation in the peripheral visual hemifields. Neuroscience 2004, 124:113-120.
42. Mackworth N.H. The breakdown of vigilance during prolonged visual search. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 1948, 1(1).
43. Macmillan N.A., Creelman C.D. Detection Theory: A User's Guide 2009, Psychology Press, New York, NY.
44. Manly T., Robertson I.H., Galloway M., Hawkins K. The absent mind: further investigations of sustained attention to response. Neuropsychologia 1999, 37(6):661-670.
45. Matthews G., Davies D.R., Westerman S.J., Stammers R.B. Vigilance and sustained attention. Human Performance: Cognition, Stress, and Individual Differences 2000, 107-124. Psychology Press, Philadelphia, PA.
46. Matthews G., Warm J.S., Reinerman L.E., Langheim L.K., Saxby D.J. Task engagement, attention, and executive control. Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition 2010, Springer, New York, NY. A. Gruszka, G. Matthews, B. Szymura (Eds.).
47. Merzagora A.C., Foffani G., Panyavin I., Mordillo-Mateos L., Aguilar J., Onaral B., Oliviero A. Prefrontal hemodynamic changes produced by anodal direct current stimulation. Neuroimage 2010, 49(3):2304-2310.
48. Mottaghy F.M., Sparing R., Töpper R. Enhancing picture naming with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Behavioural Neurology 2006, 17(3-4):177-186.
49. Nasman V.T., Dorio P.J. Reduced P3b category response in prefrontal patients. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 1993, 14(1):61-74.
50. Netter F.H. Atlas of Human Anatomy 1989, Ciba-Geigy Corp., Summit, NJ.
51. Nitsche M.A., Roth A., Kuo M.F., Fischer A.K., Liebetanz D., Lang N., Tergau F., Paulus W. Timing-dependent modulation of associative plasticity by general network excitability in the human motor cortex. J. Neurosci. 2007, 27(14):3807-3812.
52. Parasuraman R. Sustained attention: a multifactorial approach. Attention and Performance XI 1985, 493-511. Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey. M.I. Posner, O.S. Marin (Eds.).
53. The Attentive Brain 1998, The MIT Press, Cambridge. R. Parasuraman (Ed.).
54. Parasuraman R., Warm J.S., Dember W.N. Vigilance: taxonomy and utility. Ergonomics and Human Factors: Recent Research 1987, 11-32. Springer-Verlag, New York. L.S. Mark, J.S. Warm, R.L. Huston (Eds.).
55. Parasuraman R., Warm J.S., See J.E. Brain systems of vigilance. The Attentive Brain 1998, 221-256. The MIT Press, Cambridge. R. Parasuraman (Ed.).
56. Pardo J.V., Fox P.T., Raichle M.E. Localization of a human system for sustained attention by positron emission tomography. Nature 1991, 349:61-64.
57. Paulus W. Outlasting excitability shifts induced by direct current stimulation of the human brain. Suppl. Cin. Neurophysiol. 2004, 57:708-714.
58. Paus T. Primate anterior cingulate cortex: where motor control, drive and cognition interface. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2001, 2:417-424.
59. Pollack I., Norman D.A. A nonparametric analysis of recognition experiments. Psychon. Sci. 1964, 1:125-126.
60. Posner M.I. Chronometric Explorations of Mind 1978, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
61. Posner M.I., Petersen S.E. The attention system of the human brain. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 1990, 13:25-42.
62. Priori A. Brain polarization in humans: a reappraisal of an old tool for prolonged non-invasive modulation of brain excitability. Clin. Neurophysiol. 2003, 114:589-595.
63. Prokopova I. Noradrenaline and behavior. Cesk Fysiol. 2010, 59(2):51-58.
64. Reivich M., Gur R. Cerebral metabolic effects of sensory and cognitive stimuli in normal subjects. Positron Emission Tomography 1985, 329-344. Alan R. Liss, New York. M. Reivich, A. Alavi (Eds.).
65. Rueckert L., Grafman J. Sustained attention deficits in patients with right frontal lesions. Neuropsychologia 1996, 34(10):953-963.
66. Robertson I.H., Manly T., Andrade J., Baddeley B.T., Yiend J. 'Oops!': performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects. Neuropsychologia 1997, 35(6):747-758.
67. Sarter M., Berston G., Cacioppo J. Brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience: toward strong inference in attributing function to structure. Am. Psychol. 1996, 51:13-21.
68. Sheridan T. On how often the supervisor should sample. IEEE Trans. Syst. Sci. Cybern. 1970, SSC-6:140-145.
69. Sheridan T. Supervisory control. Handbook of Human Factors 1980, 1243-1268. F. Salvendy (Ed.).
70. Shue K.L., Douglas V.I. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the frontal lobe syndrome. Brain and cognition 1992, 20(1):104-124.
71. Snodgrass J.G., Corwin J. Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: applications to dementia and amnesia. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 1988, 117:34-50.
72. Stagg C.J., Nitsche M.A. Physiological basis of transcranial direct current stimulation. Neuroscientist 2011, 17(1):37-53.
73. Stanislaw H., Todorov N. Calculation of signal detection theory measures. Behav. Res. Methods Instrum. Comput. 1999, 31(1):137-149.
74. Stuss D.T., Benson D.F. The Frontal Lobes 1986, Raven Press, New York.
75. Swets J.A. Form of empirical ROCs in discrimination and diagnostic tasks: implications for theory and measurement of performance. Psych. Bull. 1986, 99:181-198.
76. Swick D., Knight R.T. Cortical lesions and attention. The Attentive Brain 1998, 143-162. The MIT Press, Cambridge. R. Parasuraman (Ed.).
77. Toole J.F. Cerebralvascular Disorders 1984, Raven Press, New York.
78. Turkeltaub P.E., Benson J., Hamilton R.H., Datta A., Bikson M., Coslett H.B. Left lateralizing transcranial direct current stimulation improves reading efficiency. Brain Stimul. 2011, 5(3):201-207.
79. Wagner T., Valero-Cabre A., Pascual-Leone A. Noninvasive human brain stimulation. Ann. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 2007, 9:527-565.
80. Warm J.S., Dember W.N. Tests of a vigilance taxonomy. Viewing Psychology as a Whole: The Integrative Science of William N. Dember 1987, 87-112. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. R.R. Hoffman, M.F. Sherrick, J.S. Warm (Eds.).
81. Warm J.S., Parasuraman R. Cerebral hemodynamics and vigilance. Neuroergonomics: The Brain at Work 2007, 146-158. Oxford University Press, New York. R. Parasuraman, M. Rizzo (Eds.).
82. Warm J.S., Schumsky D.A., Hawley D.K. Ear asymmetry and temporal uncertainty in sustained attention. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 1976, 7:413-416.
83. Warm J.S., Richter D.O., Sprague R.L., Porter P.K., Schumsky D.A. Listening with a dual brain: hemispheric asymmetry in sustained attention. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 1980, 15:229-232.
84. Warm J.S., Dember W.N., Hancock P.A. Vigilance and workload in automated systems. Automation and Human Performance: Theory and Applications 1996, 183-200. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. R. Parasuraman, M. Mouloua (Eds.).
85. Warm J.S., Parasuraman R., Matthews G. Vigilance requires hard mental work and is stressful. Hum. Factors 2008, 50:433-441.
86. Wasserman E.M., Grafman J. Recharging cognition with DC brain polarization. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2005, 9(11):503-505.
87. Wassermann E.M., Epstein C.M., Ziemann U. The Oxford handbook of transcranial stimulation: Oxford University Press 2008, USA.
88. Wickens C.D. Processing resources in attention. Varieties of Attention 1984, 63-102. Academic Press, Orlando, FL. R. Parasuraman, D.R. Davies (Eds.).
89. Wilkins A.J., Shallice T., McCarthy R. Frontal lesions and sustained attention. Neuropsychologia 1987, 25(2):359-366.
90. Wolfe D.E., Noguchi L.K. The use of music with young children to improve sustained attention during a vigilance task in the presence of auditory distractions. J. Music Ther. 2009, 46(1):69-82.
91. Yamaguchi S., Yamagata S., Kobayashi S. Cerebral asymmetry of the "top-down" allocation of attention to global and local features. J. Neurosci. 2000, 20:1-5.