Age-Related Differences in Prestimulus EEG Affect ERPs and Behaviour in the Equiprobable Go/NoGo Task
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Task and Procedure
2.3. Electrophysiological Recording
2.4. Data Quantification
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Child Group
Child Global Amplitude Correlation Analyses
3.2. Young Adult Group
Young Global Amplitude Correlation Analyses
3.3. Older Group
Older Global Amplitude Correlation Analyses
4. Discussion
4.1. Changes with Age
4.1.1. EEG
4.1.2. ERPs
4.1.3. Behaviour
4.2. Brain Dynamics
4.2.1. Child
4.2.2. Young Adult
4.2.3. Older Adult
4.3. The Processing Schema across Ages
4.4. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Group | ||||
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Characteristic | Measure | Child | Young | Older |
Sample size | n | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Biological sex | Female:Male | 15:5 | 15:5 | 15:5 |
Handedness | Right:Left | 17:3 | 20:0 | 20:0 |
Age (years) | Range | 8–12 | 18–24 | 59–74 |
M (SD) | 9.75 (1.33) | 19.90 (1.62) | 67.75 (4.45) |
Group | ||||
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Data | Child | Young | Older | |
Channel Interpolations | Range | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
M (SD) | 1.30 (1.08) | 1.35 (1.04) | 1.10 (1.02) | |
Assessed epochs in each condition | Range | 66–134 | 79–149 | 81–146 |
M (SD) | 102.85 (18.10) | 121.60 (16.31) | 127.35 (17.85) |
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Barry, R.J.; De Blasio, F.M.; Clarke, A.R.; Duda, A.T.; Munford, B.S. Age-Related Differences in Prestimulus EEG Affect ERPs and Behaviour in the Equiprobable Go/NoGo Task. Brain Sci. 2024, 14, 868. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14090868
Barry RJ, De Blasio FM, Clarke AR, Duda AT, Munford BS. Age-Related Differences in Prestimulus EEG Affect ERPs and Behaviour in the Equiprobable Go/NoGo Task. Brain Sciences. 2024; 14(9):868. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14090868
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarry, Robert J., Frances M. De Blasio, Adam R. Clarke, Alexander T. Duda, and Beckett S. Munford. 2024. "Age-Related Differences in Prestimulus EEG Affect ERPs and Behaviour in the Equiprobable Go/NoGo Task" Brain Sciences 14, no. 9: 868. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14090868