Development of auditory change-detection and attentional capture, and their relation to inhibitory control.

EEG methods offer a promising approach to study the development of attention or attention-related processes such as change-detection and attentional capture. However, the development of these attention processes from early to middle childhood is not well understood. In the current study, we utilized a passive three-stimulus oddball paradigm to examine age-related changes in auditory change-detection and attentional capture in a large sample of children across childhood (N = 475; 249 female, 226 male; Mage  = 6.71; SDage  = 2.22; Rangeage  = 4.01-11.5 years). Conventional ERP analyses revealed no age-related changes in change detection (mismatch negativity) and attentional capture (P3a) components, but we observed age-related reductions in late automatic processing of auditory change (late discriminative negativity). However, when utilizing time-frequency analyses, we observed developmental increases in frontocentral signal strength (power) and consistency (inter-trial phase synchrony) in delta and theta bands in response to novel sounds. Such frontocentral delta/theta responses have been linked in prior work to cognitive control. To further examine this possibility, we examined relations with inhibitory control. Results revealed that increased consistency in theta in response to novel sounds was related to improved inhibitory control. Together, our results advance our understanding of the development of attention in childhood. Moreover, they demonstrate the contributions of time-frequency approaches to studying neurocognitive development. Finally, our results highlight the utility of neuroimaging paradigms that have low cognitive and motor demands to study the development of psychological processes.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Psychophysiology

• Publication date

  2022-11-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/psyp.14211PMID 36350009PMCID PMC10324628
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• A passive three-stimulus oddball paradigm was used to probe auditory change-detection and attentional capture across childhood.

  Confidence 0.98

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• Greater theta inter-trial phase synchrony in response to novel sounds was associated with better inhibitory control.

  Confidence 0.95

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• Time-frequency analyses showed developmental increases in frontocentral delta/theta responses to novel sounds, including stronger power and greater inter-trial phase synchrony.

  Confidence 0.96

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• Conventional ERP analyses showed no age-related change in mismatch negativity or P3a, but late discriminative negativity decreased with age.

  Confidence 0.97

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• attentional capture

  cognitive process, attention process

  The involuntary orienting of attention toward salient or novel auditory events.

  Aliases: attention capture

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• auditory change-detection

  cognitive process, attention process

  The process of detecting alterations in incoming auditory stimuli, examined here across childhood.

  Aliases: change detection

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• frontocentral delta/theta responses

  time-frequency response, EEG measure

  Frontocentrally distributed delta- and theta-band spectral responses to novel sounds measured in the EEG.

  Aliases: delta/theta responses, frontocentral delta and theta responses

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• inhibitory control

  executive function, behavioral measure

  The ability to suppress prepotent responses, used here as a behavioral outcome linked to EEG measures.

  Aliases: inhibition control

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• inter-trial phase synchrony

  time-frequency measure, EEG measure

  A time-frequency measure of how consistently neural oscillations align in phase across repeated trials.

  Aliases: ITPS, phase synchrony

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• late discriminative negativity

  ERP component, measure

  A later event-related potential response elicited by auditory change and measured after the early ERP components.

  Aliases: LDN

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• mismatch negativity

  ERP component, measure

  An event-related potential component used here as an index of automatic auditory change detection.

  Aliases: MMN

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• p3a

  ERP component, measure

  An event-related potential component associated with involuntary attentional orienting to novel or unexpected sounds.

  Aliases: P300a

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• passive three-stimulus oddball paradigm

  task, experimental paradigm

  An auditory task that presents standard, deviant, and novel sounds in a passive listening context.

  Aliases: three-stimulus oddball paradigm, odd-ball paradigm

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• time-frequency analyses

  analysis method, EEG method

  EEG analyses that characterize signal power and phase over time and frequency.

  Aliases: spectral analyses

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