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Temporal regularity of cerebral activity at rest correlates with slowness of reaction times in intellectual disability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388245720303515?via%3Dihub#t0005
Palix
Julie
author
Giuliani
Fabienne
author
Sierro
Guillaume
author
Brandner
Catherine
author
Favrod
Jérôme
author
article
2020-06-08
Clinical Neurophysiology
journal
131
8
1859-1865
10.1016/j.clinph.2020.04.174
Objective
Intellectual disability (ID) is described as a general slowness in behavior and an inadequacy in adaptive skills. The present study examines whether behavioral slowness in ID could originate from abnormal complexity in brain signals.
Methods
Participants (N = 29) performed a reaction times (RTs) task assessing their individual information processing speeds. Half of the participants had moderate intellectual disability (intelligence quotient (IQ) < 70). Continuous electroencephalogram recording during the resting period was used to quantify brain signal complexity by approximate entropy estimation (ApEn).
Results
For all participants, a negative correlation between RTs and IQ was found, with longer RTs coinciding with lower IQ. This behavioral slowness in ID was associated with increased temporal regularity in electrocortical brain signals.
Conclusions
Behavioral slowness in ID subjects is closely related to lower brain signal complexity.
Significance
Brain signal ApEn is shown to correspond with processing speed for the first time: in ID participants, the higher the regularity in brain signals at rest, the slower RTs will be in the active state. ID should be understood as a lack of lability in the cortical transition to the active state, weakening the efficiency of adaptive behavior.
Intellectual disability, EEG, resting state, approximate entropy, reaction times
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
University of Lausanne
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