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Time‐oriented attention improves accuracy in a paced finger‐tapping task
Author(s) -
Versaci Leonardo,
Laje Rodrigo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.346
H-Index - 206
eISSN - 1460-9568
pISSN - 0953-816X
DOI - 10.1111/ejn.15245
Subject(s) - tapping , finger tapping , computer science , stimulus (psychology) , speech recognition , electroencephalography , task (project management) , millisecond , stimulus onset asynchrony , audiology , cognitive psychology , psychology , perception , neuroscience , physics , management , astronomy , economics , medicine
Finger tapping is a task widely used in a variety of experimental paradigms, in particular to understand sensorimotor synchronization and time processing in the range of hundreds of milliseconds (millisecond timing). Normally, subjects do not receive any instruction about what to attend to and the results are seldom interpreted taking into account the possible effects of attention. In this work we show that attention can be oriented to the purely temporal aspects of a paced finger‐tapping task and that it affects performance. Specifically, time‐oriented attention improves the accuracy in paced finger tapping and it also increases the resynchronization efficiency after a period perturbation. We use two markers of the attention level: auditory ERPs and subjective report of the mental workload. In addition, we propose a novel algorithm to separate the auditory, stimulus‐related components from the somatosensory, response‐related ones, which are naturally overlapped in the recorded EEG.