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Internal and External Influences on the Rate of Sensory Evidence Accumulation in the Human Brain

Simon P. Kelly and Redmond G. O'Connell
Journal of Neuroscience 11 December 2013, 33 (50) 19434-19441; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3355-13.2013
Simon P. Kelly
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10031, and
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Redmond G. O'Connell
2Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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    Integration-to-threshold dynamics during motion discrimination in the human brain. A, Schematic of the continuous RDM task. Participants monitored a centrally presented dot kinetogram for step transitions from random to coherent motion. B, RT (left) and miss rate (right) decreased as a function of coherence across the 13 subjects. Error bars indicate SEM. C, CPP waveforms aligned to stimulus onset (left) and response execution (middle) and signal scalp topography (right, color bar represents signal amplitude). D, LRP waveforms aligned to stimulus onset (left) and response execution (middle) measured as the contralateral minus ipsilateral potential difference over frontocentral sites, and the scalp topography of the difference between left motion and right motion trials at the time of response execution (right). Both signals exhibit a gradual buildup whose rate is proportional to the strength of coherent motion and which terminates at a stereotyped potential. Markers running along the bottom of plot C and D indicate the center of 100 ms time windows in which a linear contrast of signal slope as a function of coherence reached significance (one-tailed based on prediction of faster signal buildup with increasing coherence, p < 0.05), and arrows indicate the point at which each signal reaches half of its peak voltage (averaging across coherences), highlighting that the evidence-dependent buildup of the supramodal CPP precedes that of the effector-selective LRP.

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    Internal influences on decision speed. A, For each participant, single trials within each coherence level were sorted as a function of RT and divided into equal-sized fast and slow bins based on a median split. Faster RTs were preceded by decreased activity in the 8–13 Hz α band over parieto-occipital electrodes (left). CPP waveforms aligned to stimulus onset (middle) and response (right) show that faster buildup rates led to faster RTs. Markers running along the bottom of each plot indicate the center of 100 ms time windows in which signal buildup rate significantly differed as a function of RT (one-tailed based on prediction of faster RTs with increasing buildup rate, p < 0.05). B, Within each coherence level, single trials were pooled across subjects and sorted as a function of RT and divided into six equal-sized bins. Trials in the corresponding bins were then averaged across coherence levels for the plots in this figure. In keeping with the results of the within-subject analysis in A, faster RTs were preceded by decreased activity in the 8–13 Hz α band over parieto-occipital electrodes (see topography inset). Again, RT clearly decreases with CPP buildup rate.

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    Variability in timing of perceptual reports explained by trial-to-trial changes in decision signal buildup rate. A, Faster CPP buildup rates were preceded by decreased activity in the 8–13 Hz α band over parieto-occipital electrodes. B, Faster CPP buildup rates were followed by faster RTs.

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    A distinct slow negative potential over frontocentral scalp. A, Without applying a CSD transformation, the peak amplitude of the CPP appeared to increase as a function of coherence. This scatter plot of centroparietal amplitude at RT against RT itself indicates that this arises from a trend of decreasing amplitude with RT, not with coherence. Colored lines indicate the linear fit for the relationship between RT and amplitude at each coherence level, which appear colinear. B, Topography of the mean difference in CPP amplitude across consecutive pairs of coherence levels, revealing that the decrease in amplitude with RT is driven by a distinct negative-going frontocentral scalp potential, which spatially spreads to centroparietal electrodes in the absence of CSD transformation.

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