Mckeown, Brontë, Strawson, Will H., Zhang, Meichao et al. (12 more authors) (2023) Experience sampling reveals the role that covert goal states play in task-relevant behavior. Scientific reports. 21710. ISSN 2045-2322
Abstract
Cognitive neuroscience has gained insight into covert states using experience sampling. Traditionally, this approach has focused on off-task states. However, task-relevant states are also maintained via covert processes. Our study examined whether experience sampling can also provide insights into covert goal-relevant states that support task performance. To address this question, we developed a neural state space, using dimensions of brain function variation, that allows neural correlates of overt and covert states to be examined in a common analytic space. We use this to describe brain activity during task performance, its relation to covert states identified via experience sampling, and links between individual variation in overt and covert states and task performance. Our study established deliberate task focus was linked to faster target detection, and brain states underlying this experience—and target detection—were associated with activity patterns emphasizing the fronto-parietal network. In contrast, brain states underlying off-task experiences—and vigilance periods—were linked to activity patterns emphasizing the default mode network. Our study shows experience sampling can not only describe covert states that are unrelated to the task at hand, but can also be used to highlight the role fronto-parietal regions play in the maintenance of covert task-relevant states.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: This project was supported by the European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to J.S. (WANDERINGMINDS–646927). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s). |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2024 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2024 08:54 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48857-0 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41598-023-48857-0 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:207827 |
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