Cardiac afferent activity modulates early neural signature of error detection during skilled performance
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2019Egilea
Bury, Gabriela
García-Huéscar, Marta
Bhattacharya, Joydeep
Herrojo Ruiz, María
Gabriela Bury, Marta García-Huéscar, Joydeep Bhattacharya, María Herrojo Ruiz, Cardiac afferent activity modulates early neural signature of error detection during skilled performance, NeuroImage, Volume 199, 2019, Pages 704-717, ISSN 1053-8119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.043.
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Behavioral adaptations during performance rely on predicting and evaluating the consequences of our actions through action monitoring. Previous studies revealed
that proprioceptive and exteroceptive signals contribute to error-monitoring processes, which are implemented in the posterior medial frontal cortex. Interestingly,
errors also trigger changes in autonomic nervous system activity such as pupil dilation or heartbeat deceleration. Yet, the contribution of implicit interoceptive signals
of bodily states to error-monitoring during ongoing performance has been overlooked. This study investigated whether cardiovascular interoceptive signals influence
the neural correlates of error processing during performance, with an emphasis on the early stages of error processing. We recorded musicians’ electroencephalography
and electrocardiogram signals during the performance of highly-trained music pieces. Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies revealed that pitch errors
during skilled musical performance are preceded by an error detection signal, the pre-error-negativity (preERN), and followed by a later error positivity (PE). In this
study, by combining ERP, source localization and multivariate pattern classification analysis, we found that the error-minus-correct ERP waveform had an enhanced
amplitude within 40–100 ms following errors in the systolic period of the cardiac cycle. This component could be decoded from single-trials, was dissociated from the
preERN and PE, and stemmed from the inferior parietal cortex, which is a region implicated in cardiac autonomic regulation. In addition, the phase of the cardiac cycle
influenced behavioral alterations resulting from errors, with a smaller post-error slowing and less perturbed velocity in keystrokes following pitch errors in the systole
relative to the diastole phase of the cardiac cycle. Lastly, changes in the heart rate anticipated the upcoming occurrence of errors. This study provides the first evidence
of preconscious visceral information modulating neural and behavioral responses related to early error monitoring during skilled performance.