期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 49, 期 4, 页码 3426-3435出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.020
关键词
Time-on-task effect; psychomotor vigilance test; ASL perfusion fMRI; Fronto-parietal network
资金
- NSF [0224007, 0517935]
- NIH [P30 NS045839, R01 NR04281]
- National Space Biomedical Research Institute [NASA NCC 9-58]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-05-1-0293]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0224007, 0517935] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
During sustained periods of a taxing cognitive workload, humans typically display time-on-task (TOT) effects, in which performance gets steadily worse over the period of task engagement. Arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used in this study to investigate the neural correlates of TOT effects in a group of 15 subjects as they performed a 20-min continuous psychomotor vigilance test (PVT). Subjects displayed significant TOT effects, as seen in progressively slower reaction times and significantly increased mental fatigue ratings after the task. Perfusion data showed that the PVT activates a right latelalized fronto-parietal attentional network in addition to the basal ganglia and sensorimotor cortices. The fronto-parietal network was less active during post-task rest compared to pre-task rest, and regional CBF decrease in this network correlated with performance decline. These results demonstrate the persistent effects of cognitive fatigue in the fronto-parietal network after a period of heavy mental work and indicate the critical role of this attentional network in mediating TOT effects. Furthermore, resting regional CBF in the thalamus and right middle frontal gyrus prior to task onset was predictive of subjects' subsequent performance decline, suggesting that resting CBF quantified by ASL perfusion fMRI may be a useful indicator of performance potential and a marker of the level of fatigue in the neural attentional system. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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