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Long-Term Exposure to High Altitude Affects Conflict Control in the Conflict-Resolving Stage.

ABSTRACT: The neurocognitive basis of the effect of long-term high altitude exposure on conflict control is unclear. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in a flanker task to investigate the influence of high altitude on conflict control in the high-altitude group (who had lived at high altitude for three years but were born at low altitude) and the low-altitude group (living in low altitude only). Although altitude effect was not significant at the behavioral level, ERPs showed cognitive conflict modulation. The interaction between group and trial type was significant: P3 amplitude was greater in the low-altitude group than in the high-altitude group in the incongruent trial. This result suggests that long-term exposure to high altitude affects conflict control in the conflict-resolving stage, and that attentional resources are decreased to resist the conflict control in the high-altitude group.

SUBMITTER: Ma H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4682854 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Long-Term Exposure to High Altitude Affects Conflict Control in the Conflict-Resolving Stage.

Ma Hailin H Wang Yan Y Wu Jianhui J Wang Baoxi B Guo Shichun S Luo Ping P Han Buxin B

PloS one 20151215 12

The neurocognitive basis of the effect of long-term high altitude exposure on conflict control is unclear. Event related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in a flanker task to investigate the influence of high altitude on conflict control in the high-altitude group (who had lived at high altitude for three years but were born at low altitude) and the low-altitude group (living in low altitude only). Although altitude effect was not significant at the behavioral level, ERPs showed cognitive conflic ...[more]

PMID: 26671280

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