期刊
NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
卷 139, 期 -, 页码 69-75出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.12.016
关键词
Photobiomodulation; Low-level laser therapy; Cognitive enhancement; Transcranial laser stimulation; Category learning; Neuromodulation
资金
- College of Liberals Arts of the University of Texas at Austin
- National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institute of Health [DA032457-01A1S1]
This is the first randomized, controlled study comparing the cognitive effects of transcranial laser stimulation on category learning tasks. Transcranial infrared laser stimulation is a new non-invasive form of brain stimulation that shows promise for wide-ranging experimental and neuropsychological applications. It involves using infrared laser to enhance cerebral oxygenation and energy metabolism through upregulation of the respiratory enzyme cytochrome oxidase, the primary infrared photon acceptor in cells. Previous research found that transcranial infrared laser stimulation aimed at the prefrontal cortex can improve sustained attention, short-term memory, and executive function. In this study, we directly investigated the influence of transcranial infrared laser stimulation on two neurobiologically dissociable systems of category learning: a prefrontal cortex mediated reflective system that learns categories using explicit rules, and a striatally mediated reflexive learning system that forms gradual stimulus-response associations. Participants (n = 118) received either active infrared laser to the lateral prefrontal cortex or sham (placebo) stimulation, and then learned one of two category structures a rule-based structure optimally learned by the reflective system, or an information-integration structure optimally learned by the reflexive system. We found that prefrontal rule-based learning was substantially improved following transcranial infrared laser stimulation as compared to placebo (treatment X block interaction: F(1, 298) = 5.117, p = 0.024), while information-integration learning did not show significant group differences (treatment X block interaction: F(1, 288) = 1.633, p = 0.202). These results highlight the exciting potential of transcranial infrared laser stimulation for cognitive enhancement and provide insight into the neurobiological underpinnings of category learning. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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