Here, we similarly observed neurons that, sequentially increase their firing amplitude during different task phases in a no-report BFS task.
Saga, Y., Iba, M., Tanji, J. & Hoshi, E. Development of multidimensional representations of task phases in the lateral prefrontal cortex.
To test whether networks were differentially engaged during working memory task phases between the study groups, analysis of variance (ANOVA) compared the beta weights (dependent variable) between schizophrenia and controls (independent variable) in SPSS v15 (http://www.spss.com/spss/).spss.com/spss/
These beta weights represented the degree of synchrony between component time courses and the canonical hemodynamic response model, indicating whether or not the network represented in the component was engaged during that task phase.
It's that in-between phase where you don't totally feel like an adult.
However, as the main purpose of the paper was to investigate group differences in task associated network activity between controls and schizophrenia subjects, we do not elaborate on all components that were significantly associated with each task phase.
This finding suggests that different LPFC populations operate in parallel to encode the contents of consciousness and task phase.
Whether and how dynamics of such task-phase related activity could exist in a free flowing no-report binocular rivalry task remains to be investigated.
We applied Independent Component Analysis ICAa), a well-established approach for detecting underlying networks [38], [39], to analyze the interaction between the cognitive load of a working-memory task and the subsequent activity of the DMN in short resting phases (24 s) between task blocks.
In the task delay phase, a written cue indicated which task to perform on the four letters.
Differences in learning between tasks were assessed using a 3 (task: novel-AV, verbal-AV, shape-VV) × 2 (phase of learning: learning, learnt) repeated measures ANOVA.
