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ArticleHuman brain mapping2020

Temporal integration as "common currency" of brain and self-scale-free activity in resting-state EEG correlates with temporal delay effects on self-relatedness.

Ivar R Kolvoort, Soren Wainio-Theberge, Annemarie Wolff, Georg Northoff

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ivar R KolvoortMind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7072-4392
Soren Wainio-ThebergeMind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Annemarie WolffMind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Georg NorthoffMind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
University of Ottawa · CA

Funding

CIHRHorizon 2020 Framework Programme 785907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The self is a multifaceted phenomenon that integrates information and experience across multiple time scales. How temporal integration on the psychological level of the self is related to temporal integration on the neuronal level remains unclear. To investigate temporal integration on the psychological level, we modified a well-established self-matching paradigm by inserting temporal delays. On the neuronal level, we indexed temporal integration in resting-state EEG by two related measures of scale-free dynamics, the power law exponent and autocorrelation window. We hypothesized that the previously established self-prioritization effect, measured as decreased response times or increased accuracy for self-related stimuli, would change with the insertion of different temporal delays between the paired stimuli, and that these changes would be related to temporal integration on the neuronal level. We found a significant self-prioritization effect on accuracy in all conditions with delays, indicating stronger temporal integration of self-related stimuli. Further, we observed a relationship between temporal integration on psychological and neuronal levels: higher degrees of neuronal integration, that is, higher power-law exponent and longer autocorrelation window, during resting-state EEG were related to a stronger increase in the self-prioritization effect across longer temporal delays. We conclude that temporal integration on the neuronal level serves as a template for temporal integration of the self on the psychological level. Temporal integration can thus be conceived as the "common currency" of neuronal and psychological levels of self.

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ConnectomeEgoElectroencephalographySocial PerceptionAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermPattern Recognition, VisualPsychomotor PerformanceSensorimotor CortexTime FactorsYoung Adultcommon currencyEEGscale-free activityselfself-prioritization effectself-relatednesstemporal integration

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PMID32697351
PMCPMC7502844
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