TY - JOUR
T1 - Beta and gamma oscillations index cognitive interference effects across a distributed motor network
AU - Wiesman, Alex I.
AU - Koshy, Sam M.
AU - Heinrichs-Graham, Elizabeth
AU - Wilson, Tony W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants R01-MH103220 (TWW), R01-MH116782 (TWW), R01-MH118013 (TWW), R01-DA047828 (TWW), P20-GM130447 (TWW), and F31-AG055332 (AIW) from the National Institutes of Health , grant # 1539067 from the National Science Foundation (TWW), and a NASA Nebraska Space Grant (AIW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - The planning and execution of an efficient motor plan is essential to everyday cognitive function, and relies on oscillatory neural responses in both the beta (14–30 Hz) and gamma (>30 Hz) bands. Such motor control requires not only the integration of salient information from the environment, but also the inhibition of irrelevant or distracting inputs that often manifest as forms of cognitive interference. While the effects of cognitive interference on motor neural dynamics has been an area of increasing interest recently, it remains unclear whether different subtypes of interference differentially impact these dynamics. We address this issue using magnetoencephalography and a novel adaptation of the Multi-Source Interference Task, wherein two common subtypes of cognitive interference are each presented in isolation, as well as simultaneously. We find evidence for the subtype-invariant indexing of cognitive interference across a widely distributed set of motor regions oscillating in the beta range, including the bilateral primary motor and posterior parietal cortices. Further, we find that superadditive effects of cognitive interference subtypes on behavior are paralleled by gamma oscillations in the contralateral premotor cortex, and determine that these gamma oscillations also predict the superadditive effects on behavior.
AB - The planning and execution of an efficient motor plan is essential to everyday cognitive function, and relies on oscillatory neural responses in both the beta (14–30 Hz) and gamma (>30 Hz) bands. Such motor control requires not only the integration of salient information from the environment, but also the inhibition of irrelevant or distracting inputs that often manifest as forms of cognitive interference. While the effects of cognitive interference on motor neural dynamics has been an area of increasing interest recently, it remains unclear whether different subtypes of interference differentially impact these dynamics. We address this issue using magnetoencephalography and a novel adaptation of the Multi-Source Interference Task, wherein two common subtypes of cognitive interference are each presented in isolation, as well as simultaneously. We find evidence for the subtype-invariant indexing of cognitive interference across a widely distributed set of motor regions oscillating in the beta range, including the bilateral primary motor and posterior parietal cortices. Further, we find that superadditive effects of cognitive interference subtypes on behavior are paralleled by gamma oscillations in the contralateral premotor cortex, and determine that these gamma oscillations also predict the superadditive effects on behavior.
KW - Magnetoencephalography
KW - Multi-source interference task
KW - Neural oscillations
KW - Superadditivity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116747
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116747
M3 - Article
C2 - 32179103
AN - SCOPUS:85082017483
SN - 1053-8119
VL - 213
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
M1 - 116747
ER -