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How mind wandering influences motor control: The modulating role of movement difficulty

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العنوان: How mind wandering influences motor control: The modulating role of movement difficulty
المؤلفون: Zhengkun Long, Qiufang Fu, Xiaolan Fu
المصدر: NeuroImage, Vol 294, Iss , Pp 120638- (2024)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mind wandering, Motor control, Movement difficulty, Neural oscillations, Electroencephalogram (EEG), Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: It has been found that mind wandering can impair motor control. However, it remains unclear whether the impact of mind wandering on motor control is modulated by movement difficulty and its associated neural mechanisms. To address this issue, we manipulated movement difficulty using handedness and finger dexterity separately in two signal-response tasks with identical experiment designs, in which right-handed participants performed key-pressing and key-releasing movements with the specified fingers, and they had to intermittently report whether their attention was “On task” or “Off task.” Key-releasing with the right index finger (RI) had a faster reaction time and stronger contralateral delta-theta (1–7 Hz) functional connectivity than with the left index (LI) in Experiment 1, and mind wandering only reduced the contralateral delta-theta functional connectivity and midfrontal delta-theta activity for key-releasing with RI. Key-pressing with right index and middle fingers (RIR) had a faster reaction time and stronger midfrontal delta-theta activity than with right index and ring fingers (RIR) in Experiment 2, and mind wandering only reduced the midfrontal delta-theta activity for key-pressing with RIM. Theta oscillations are vital in motor control. These findings suggest that mind wandering only impairs the motor control of relatively simple movements without affecting the difficult ones. It supports the notion that mind wandering competes for executive resources with the primary task. Moreover, the quantity of executive resources recruited for a task and how these resources are allocated is contingent upon the task difficulty, which may determine whether mind wandering would interfere with motor control.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1095-9572
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811924001332; https://doaj.org/toc/1095-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120638
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/713a7478eb3743199e2e0f4ec3278d82
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.713a7478eb3743199e2e0f4ec3278d82
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:10959572
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120638