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Good to be stressed? Improved response inhibition and error processing after acute stress in young and older men
Dierolf, Angelika; Schoofs, Daniela; Hessas, Eve-Mariek et al.
2018In Neuropsychologia, 119, p. 434-447
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Keywords :
Response Inhibition; Error processing; Stress; Aging; ERP; Go/No-Go
Abstract :
[en] own on whether and how age modulates stress effects on executive functions and their neural correlates. The current study investigated the effect of acute stress on response inhibition and error processing and their underlying cortical processes in younger and older healthy men, using EEG. Forty-nine participants (30 young) were stressed with the Trier Social Stress Test (16 young, 9 older) or underwent a friendly control procedure (14 young, 10 older) and subsequently performed a Go/No-Go task with two levels of task difficulty while performance (reaction time, error rate), stimulus-locked (N2, P3) and response-locked (Ne, Pe) ERPs were measured. Previous results on age-related cognitive deficits were replicated, with slower responses and reduced and delayed N2 and P3 components, as well as reduced Ne and Pe components in older participants. Independent of age, acute stress improved response inhibition, reflected in higher accuracy for compatible trials and enhanced inhibition-related components (N2, P3 and N2d, P3d of the difference waves No-Go minus Go), and improved error processing, reflected in enhanced error-related components (Ne, Pe and Ne_d, Pe_d of the difference waves error minus correct trial). Our findings indicate that acute stress leads to a reallocation of cognitive resources, strengthening inhibition and error processing in young and older healthy men to a similar degree. Neural generators of the analyzed ERPs are mainly part of the salience network, which is upregulated immediately after stress. This offers an explanation as to why response inhibition, in contrast to other executive functions, improves after acute stress.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Dierolf, Angelika ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Schoofs, Daniela;  Hannover Medical School > Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Hessas, Eve-Mariek;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
Falkenstein, Michael;  Institute for Work, Learning and Ageing (ALA)
Otto, Tobias;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
Paul, Marcus;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
Suchan, Boris;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Neuropsychology
Wolf, Oliver, T.;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Good to be stressed? Improved response inhibition and error processing after acute stress in young and older men
Publication date :
October 2018
Journal title :
Neuropsychologia
ISSN :
1873-3514
Publisher :
Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
119
Pages :
434-447
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
"Mercator Stiftung", Essen, Germany
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