Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity

Ikääntyminen heikentää ihmisen työmuistin kykyä torjua erilaisia häiriötekijöitä. Alfa-aktiivisuuden (noin 10 Hz) tiedetään heijastavan lepoa tai inhibitiota ihmisen aivoissa. Kognitiivisessa prosessoinnissa alfan tiedetään reflektoivan esimerkiksi häiriötekijöiden ehkäisemistä prosessin aikana. Aiv...

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Main Author: Westerholm, Saara
Other Authors: Kasvatustieteiden ja psykologian tiedekunta, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Psykologian laitos, Department of Psychology, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
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Published: 2018
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description Ikääntyminen heikentää ihmisen työmuistin kykyä torjua erilaisia häiriötekijöitä. Alfa-aktiivisuuden (noin 10 Hz) tiedetään heijastavan lepoa tai inhibitiota ihmisen aivoissa. Kognitiivisessa prosessoinnissa alfan tiedetään reflektoivan esimerkiksi häiriötekijöiden ehkäisemistä prosessin aikana. Aivojen visuaalisten alueiden tiedetään sijaitsevan takaraivon aivokuorella. Tässä tutkielmassa halusin selvittää, miten visuaalinen inhibitio eroaa helppojen ja vaikeiden visuaalisten häiriökuvien välillä. Halusin myös selvittää korreloivatko häiriönaikainen visuaalisen aivokuoren alfa-aktiivisuus ja visuaalisessa työmuistitehtävässä pärjääminen toistensa kanssa. Hypoteeseina esitin, että helpot ja vaikeat visuaaliset häiriötekijät aikaansaavat erilaiset alfa-vasteet ja että voimakkaampi häiriönaikainen alfa-aktiivisuus korreloi paremman työmuistisuorituksen kanssa. Tässä tutkimuksessa käytettiin visuaalista työmuistitehtävää visuaalisen häiriötekijän kanssa. Käytössä oli sekä helppoja että vaikeita visuaalisia häiriökuvia. Alfa-aktiivisuus takaraivon alueella mitattiin kahdeltakymmeneltäkahdeksalta koehenkilöltä käyttäen magnetoenkefalografiaa. Koehenkilöt olivat syntyneet vuosina 1935-1946. Tulokset paljastavat, että helppojen ja vaikeiden visuaalisten häiriöiden aikainen alfa-aktiivisuus poikkeavat toisistaan. Helppo häiriökuva aiheuttaa aivoissa erilaisen alfa-aktiivisuuden modulaation kuin vaikea häiriökuva. Sen sijaan visuaalista työmuistia mittaavassa tehtävässä pärjäämisessä ei havaittu eroja sen mukaan, kuinka voimakas alfaaktiivisuus takaraivon aivokuorella oli häiriökuvien aikana. Avainsanat: työmuisti, visuaalinen aivokuori, alfa-aktiivisuus, ikääntyminen, MEG, visuaalinen häiriö Aging declines ability to inhibit different distractions during working memory process. Alpha activity (10 Hz) is generally known to reflect rest or inhibition in human brain. In cognitive processing alpha oscillations reflect for example distractor inhibition. Brains visual areas are known to locate in occipital cortex. In this thesis I want to solve how visual inhibition differs between easy and difficult visual distractor pictures. I want also solve whether occipital alpha activity during distraction and visual working memory task performance correlate. My hypothesis is that easy and difficult distractor pictures lead to different occipital alpha activity states and that higher occipital alpha activity during distraction picture predict better performance in visual working memory task. In this study we used visual working memory task with visual distractor. There was both easy and difficult distractor pictures. Alpha power in occipital cortex during working memory task was measured from 28 older adults born between years 1935 and 1946 using magnetoencephalography. The results reveal that there is difference between occipital alpha activity during either easy or difficult distractor pictures. Easy distractor picture leads to different modulation of occipital alpha than difficult distractor picture. Instead of that there wasn´t correlation between occipital alpha activity during distraction and visual working memory task performance. Keywords: working memory, occipital cortex, alpha-activity, aging, MEG, visual distraction
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title Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_full Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_fullStr Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_full_unstemmed Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_short Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task
title_sort inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_sub effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
title_txtP Inhibiting visual distractor during visual working memory task : effect of visual distractor difficulty to occipital alpha activity
topic visuaalinen aivokuori alfa-aktiivisuus visuaalinen häiriö Psykologia Psychology 202 työmuisti MEG aivot ikääntyminen näkömuisti working memory brain ageing visual memory
topic_facet 202 MEG Psychology Psykologia ageing aivot alfa-aktiivisuus brain ikääntyminen näkömuisti työmuisti visuaalinen aivokuori visuaalinen häiriö visual memory working memory
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