ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020
Purpose-Dependent Consequences of Temporal Expectations Serving Perception and Action.
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- Distractor anticipation during working memory is associated with theta and beta oscillations across spatial scales.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Time for What? Dissociating Explicit Timing Tasks through Electrophysiological Signatures.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Goal-Dependent Use of Temporal Regularities to Orient Attention under Spatial and Action Uncertainty.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Interference between items stored for distinct tasks in visual working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- The effect of temporal expectation on the correlations of frontal neural activity with alpha oscillation and sensory-motor latency.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Pre-stimulus beta power varies as a function of auditory-motor synchronization and temporal predictability.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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- The Spatiotemporal Link of Temporal Expectations: Contextual Temporal Expectation Is Independent of Spatial Attention.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference.Cognition · 2021Article
- The human cerebellum is essential for modulating perceptual sensitivity based on temporal expectations.eLife · 2021Article
- Orienting auditory attention in time: Lateralized alpha power reflects spatio-temporal filtering.NeuroImage · 2021Article
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Abstract
Temporal expectations enable anticipatory brain states that prepare us for upcoming perception and action. We investigated the purpose-dependent nature and consequences of cued temporal expectations on brain and behavior in male and female human volunteers, using two matched visual-motor tasks that stressed either response speed or visual accuracy. We show that the consequences of temporal expectations are fundamentally purpose dependent. Temporal expectations predominantly affected response times when visual demands were low and speed was more important, but perceptual accuracy when visual demands were more challenging. Using magnetoencephalography, we further show how temporal expectations latch onto anticipatory neural states associated with concurrent spatial expectations-modulating task-specific anticipatory neural lateralization of oscillatory brain activity in a modality- and frequency-specific manner. By relating these brain states to behavior, we finally reveal how the behavioral relevance of such anticipatory brain states is similarly purpose dependent.
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