TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Kojouharova, Petia Steftcheva AU - Protzner, Andrea B. AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Investigating the Effect of Contextual Cueing with Face Stimuli on Electrophysiological Measures in Younger and Older Adults JF - JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE J2 - J COGNITIVE NEUROSCI VL - 36 PY - 2024 IS - 5 SP - 776 EP - 799 PG - 24 SN - 0898-929X DO - 10.1162/jocn_a_02135 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34782072 ID - 34782072 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural SciencesBudapest, Hungary Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBudapest, Hungary Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Export Date: 26 April 2024 AB - Extracting repeated patterns from our surroundings plays a crucial role in contextualizing information, making predictions, and guiding our behavior implicitly. Previous research showed that contextual cueing enhances visual search performance in younger adults. In this study, we investigated whether contextual cueing could also improve older adults' performance and whether age-related differences in the neural processes underlying implicit contextual learning could be detected. Twenty-four younger and 25 older participants performed a visual search task with contextual cueing. Contextual information was generated using repeated face configurations alongside random new configurations. We measured RT difference between new and repeated configurations; ERPs to uncover the neural processes underlying contextual cueing for early (N2pc), intermediate (P3b), and late (r-LRP) processes; and multiscale entropy and spectral power density analyses to examine neural dynamics. Both younger and older adults showed similar contextual cueing benefits in their visual search efficiency at the behavioral level. In addition, they showed similar patterns regarding contextual information processing: Repeated face configurations evoked decreased finer timescale entropy (1–20 msec) and higher frequency band power (13–30 Hz) compared with new configurations. However, we detected age-related differences in ERPs: Younger, but not older adults, had larger N2pc and P3b components for repeated compared with new configurations. These results suggest that contextual cueing remains intact with aging. Although attention- and target-evaluation-related ERPs differed between the age groups, the neural dynamics of contextual learning were preserved with aging, as both age groups increasingly utilized more globally grouped representations for repeated face configurations during the learning process. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Kővári, Lili AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Exploring the role of working memory gate opening process in creativity: An ERP study using the reference-back paradigm JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 187 PY - 2024 PG - 14 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108765 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34718463 ID - 34718463 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, Budapest, H-1111, Hungary Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Kazinczy utca 23–27, Budapest, H-1075, Hungary Export Date: 18 March 2024 CODEN: BLPYA Correspondence Address: Csizmadia, P.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, Hungary; email: csizmadia.petra@ttk.hu Chemicals/CAS: dopamine, 51-61-6, 62-31-7 Funding details: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, OTKA, K 132880 Funding details: Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap, NKFIA Funding text 1: The research was supported by the ÚNKP-22–3-II-BME-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund ; and by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund ( OTKA K 132880 ) LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Kővári, Lili AU - Czigler, István AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna ED - Kulcsár, Gabriella ED - D. Horváth, Vanessza TI - A munkamemória alfolyamatainak szerepe a kreatív problémamegoldásban T2 - Találkozás a változásban - Változások a találkozásban PB - Magyar Pszichológiai Társaság CY - Budapest SN - 9786158234603 PY - 2023 SP - 244 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34540308 ID - 34540308 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Lili, Kővári AU - Györgyi, Balla AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Working memory sub-processes behind divergent and convergent thinking T2 - 14th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Mechanisms of Collective Decision-making for Cooperative Actions - Abstract Book PY - 2023 SP - 69 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34540244 ID - 34540244 N1 - Paper: PS3-17 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kojouharova, Petia Steftcheva AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Czigler, István AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Mechanisms of spatial contextual cueing in younger and older adults JF - PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY J2 - PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY VL - 60 PY - 2023 IS - 11 PG - 19 SN - 0048-5772 DO - 10.1111/psyp.14361 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34009643 ID - 34009643 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Czigler, István AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - File, Domonkos AU - Fáy, Nóra AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Investigating the involvement of cognitive control processes in innovative and adaptive creativity and their age-related changes JF - FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE J2 - FRONT HUM NEUROSCI VL - 17 PY - 2023 PG - 18 SN - 1662-5161 DO - 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1033508 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33618640 ID - 33618640 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Independent Researcher, Budapest, Hungary Correspondence Address: Nagy, B.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungary; email: nagy.boglarka@ttk.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Kojouharova, Petia Steftcheva AU - Czigler, István TI - How can contextual cueing with face stimuli affect the performance of younger and older adults? – An event-related potential study of visual search T2 - ESCAN 2022: 6th bi-annual conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33671614 ID - 33671614 N1 - Poster AB - Contextual cueing, the implicit learning of the arrangement and dynamics of surrounding stimuli, is a potential candidate for helping everyday visual search situations like finding a person in the crowd. Since implicit learning is more intact than explicit with aging, we were interested if contextual cueing could be beneficial for older adults. The experimental task was to find a male face between female faces. After replacing faces with colourful dots, participants had to show the location of the male face using a mouse. 30 blocks were shown and every block contained 12 repeated trials which were identical in every block and 12 new trials which were randomly generated. For the identity-repeat study (the same faces were shown together in the repeated trials but in random positions), we collected 24 young adults’ behavioural data and for the all-repeat study (the same faces appeared in the exact same positions in the repeated trials), we collected 24 younger (18-30 years) and 25 older (60-75 years) adults’ behavioural and EEG data. Our results revealed that while the identity-repeat task (object cueing) did not facilitate the younger adult’s performance in the repeated trials, the all-repeat task (spatial cueing) showed increased performance in both age groups for the repeated trials which was detected in faster reaction time, lower error-rate, and increased N2pc component (attention orientation to target) compared to new trials. In conclusion, contextual cueing of face stimuli can facilitate visual search performance in both age-groups but only if identity and location information consistently predicts the target. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Kojouharova, Petia Steftcheva AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Czigler, István AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Spatial contextual cueing in younger and older adults: An ERP study T2 - ESCAN 2022: 6th bi-annual conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33671562 ID - 33671562 N1 - Poster AB - Information extracted from the environment influences how well we perform a task. Contextual stimuli are often distractors, irrelevant and possibly detrimental to the task at hand. Context, however, can also have a facilitating effect on performance, e.g., orientation in a familiar environment. We suggest that effective utilization of context may compensate for cognitive functions that deteriorate with age. In this study we investigated the effect of spatial context on performance in younger and older adults in the spatial cueing paradigm. Visual displays containing a task-related target and task-irrelevant distractor objects were presented to the participants. Some trials (“repeated”) had the same spatial configuration throughout the session, while the rest (“novel”) always showed new spatial configurations. Similarly to earlier studies, younger adults were progressively faster for “repeated” compared to “novel” trials. The older group showed an identical improvement in reaction time for “repeated” trials. Previous electrophysiological studies attributed this improvement to more effective orientation of covert attention (measured with the N2pc component) and improved response-related processes (measured with the P3 and LRP components). In our study N2pc was overall earlier for “repeated” trials. The P3 was larger for “repeated” trials in the younger group, replicating earlier results. In the older group, however, P3 was larger for “novel” trials. Larger improvement in reaction time correlated positively with larger amplitude difference for both components only in the younger group. While the electrophysiological results suggest different mechanisms, both groups were able to utilize contextual information to improve their performance. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - Czigler, István AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - Befolyásolja-e a kreatív kognitív stílus a vizuális feldolgozást? Eseményhez kötött potenciál vizsgálata fiatal és idős felnőtteken JF - ALKALMAZOTT PSZICHOLÓGIA J2 - ALKALMAZOTT PSZICHOLÓGIA VL - 22 PY - 2022 IS - 2 SP - 91 EP - 112 PG - 22 SN - 1419-872X DO - 10.17627/ALKPSZICH.2022.2.91 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33577441 ID - 33577441 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nagy, Boglárka AU - Csizmadia, Petra AU - Kovács, Attila János AU - Czigler, István AU - Gaál, Zsófia Anna TI - A kreativitás és a kreatív teljesítményt befolyásoló tényezők pszichometriai vizsgálata fiatal és idős felnőtt populáción JF - ALKALMAZOTT PSZICHOLÓGIA J2 - ALKALMAZOTT PSZICHOLÓGIA VL - 22 PY - 2022 IS - 2 SP - 55 EP - 89 PG - 35 SN - 1419-872X DO - 10.17627/ALKPSZICH.2022.2.55 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33577396 ID - 33577396 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -