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Mednicoff SD, Barashy S, Vollweiler DJ, Benning SD, Snyder JS, Hannon EE. Misophonia reactions in the general population are correlated with strong emotional reactions to other everyday sensory-emotional experiences. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20230253. [PMID: 39005036 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024] Open
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Misophonic experiences are common in the general population, and they may shed light on everyday emotional reactions to multi-modal stimuli. We performed an online study of a non-clinical sample to understand the extent to which adults who have misophonic reactions are generally reactive to a range of audio-visual emotion-inducing stimuli. We also hypothesized that musicality might be predictive of one's emotional reactions to these stimuli because music is an activity that involves strong connections between sensory processing and meaningful emotional experiences. Participants completed self-report scales of misophonia and musicality. They also watched videos meant to induce misophonia, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and musical chills, and were asked to click a button whenever they had any emotional reaction to the video. They also rated the emotional valence and arousal of each video. Reactions to misophonia videos were predicted by reactions to ASMR and chills videos, which could indicate that the frequency with which individuals experience emotional responses varies similarly across both negative and positive emotional contexts. Musicality scores were not correlated with measures of misophonia. These findings could reflect a general phenotype of stronger emotional reactivity to meaningful sensory inputs. This article is part of the theme issue 'Sensing and feeling: an integrative approach to sensory processing and emotional experience'.
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- Solena D Mednicoff
- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-9900, USA
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Li L, Ishida K, Mizuhara K, Barry RJ, Nittono H. Effects of the cardiac cycle on auditory processing: A preregistered study on mismatch negativity. Psychophysiology 2024; 61:e14506. [PMID: 38149745 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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The systolic and diastolic phases of the cardiac cycle are known to affect perception and cognition differently. Higher order processing tends to be facilitated at systole, whereas sensory processing of external stimuli tends to be impaired at systole compared to diastole. The current study aims to examine whether the cardiac cycle affects auditory deviance detection, as reflected in the mismatch negativity (MMN) of the event-related brain potential (ERP). We recorded the intensity deviance response to deviant tones (70 dB) presented among standard tones (60 or 80 dB, depending on blocks) and calculated the MMN by subtracting standard ERP waveforms from deviant ERP waveforms. We also assessed intensity-dependent N1 and P2 amplitude changes by subtracting ERPs elicited by soft standard tones (60 dB) from ERPs elicited by loud standard tones (80 dB). These subtraction methods were used to eliminate phase-locked cardiac-related electric artifacts that overlap auditory ERPs. The endogenous MMN was expected to be larger at systole, reflecting the facilitation of memory-based auditory deviance detection, whereas the exogenous N1 and P2 would be smaller at systole, reflecting impaired exteroceptive sensory processing. However, after the elimination of cardiac-related artifacts, there were no significant differences between systole and diastole in any ERP components. The intensity-dependent N1 and P2 amplitude changes were not obvious in either cardiac phase, probably because of the short interstimulus intervals. The lack of a cardiac phase effect on MMN amplitude suggests that preattentive auditory processing may not be affected by bodily signals from the heart.
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- Lingjun Li
- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Psychology, Brain & Behaviour Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Wagner-Altendorf TA, Rein M, Skeries VM, Cirkel A, Münte TF, Heldmann M. Tracking the habituation of the event-related EEG potential in automatic change detection using an auditory two-tone oddball paradigm. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae157. [PMID: 38615240 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2024] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024] Open
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The mismatch negativity and the P3a of the event-related EEG potential reflect the electrocortical response to a deviant stimulus in a series of stimuli. Although both components have been investigated in various paradigms, these paradigms usually incorporate many repetitions of the same deviant, thus leaving open whether both components vary as a function of the deviant's position in a series of deviant stimuli-i.e. whether they are subject to qualitative/quantitative habituation from one instantiation of a deviant to the next. This is so because the detection of mismatch negativity/P3a in the event-related EEG potential requires an averaging over dozens or hundreds of stimuli, i.e. over many instantiations of the deviant per participant. The present study addresses this research gap. We used a two-tone oddball paradigm implementing only a small number of (deviant) stimuli per participant, but applying it to a large number of participants (n > 230). Our data show that the mismatch negativity amplitude exhibits no decrease as a function of the deviant's position in a series of (standard and) deviant stimuli. Importantly, only after the very first deviant stimulus, a distinct P3a could be detected, indicative of an orienting reaction and an attention shift, and thus documenting a dissociation of mismatch negativity and P3a.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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Che J, Cheng N, Jiang B, Liu Y, Liu H, Li Y, Liu H. Executive function measures of participants with mild cognitive impairment: Systematic review and meta-analysis of event-related potential studies. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 197:112295. [PMID: 38266685 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.112295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Objective measurements of executive functions using event-related potential (ERP) may be used as markers for differentiating healthy controls (HC) from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). ERP is non-invasive, cost-effective, and affordable. Older adults with MCI demonstrate deteriorated executive function, serving as a potentially valid neurophysiological marker for identifying MCI. We aimed to review published ERP studies on executive function in older adults with MCI and summarize the performance differences by component between healthy older adults and older adults with MCI. METHODS Eight electronic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, ScienceDirect, American Psychological Association PsycNet, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase, and Ovid) were searched for the study. Articles published from January 1 to December 31, 2022, were considered for this review. A random-effects meta-analysis and between-study heterogeneity analysis were conducted using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis V3.0 software. RESULTS We identified 7829 articles of which 28 met the full inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review and analyses. Our pooled analysis suggested that participants with MCI can be differentiated from HC by significant P200, P300, and N200 latencies. The P100 and P300 amplitudes were significantly smaller in participants with MCI when compared with those in the HCs, and the patients with MCI showed increased N200 amplitudes. Our findings provide new insights into potential electrophysiological biomarkers for diagnosing MCI.
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- Jiajun Che
- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China; Natural University of Malaysia, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Centre for Psychology and Human Welfare, Bangui, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China
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- Department of Psychology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China; Hebei Key Laboratory of Nerve Injury and Repair, Chengde Medical University, Chengde 067000, China.
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Chang M, Tanaka K, Naruse Y, Imamura Y, Fujii S. Influence of monaural auditory stimulation combined with music on brain activity. Front Hum Neurosci 2024; 17:1311602. [PMID: 38273883 PMCID: PMC10808332 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1311602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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Introduction Recently, the increasing attention to mental states and psychophysical health has fueled the research into methods that can aid in relaxation and recovery. Traditional methods like meditation and sauna, while effective, have their limitations; thus, the need for more accessible and convenient alternatives. Methods Our innovative approach combines monaural beats with music, attempting to replicate the relaxing effects of a sauna in the auditory domain. Results In comparison to normal music and silent condition, the power of the theta active band significantly increased when listening to our modified music. Furthermore, after listening to modified music, there was a significant increase in mismatch negativity (MMN) amplitude in the oddball task. Additionally, participants' subjective responses to a questionnaire indicated significant changes in body relaxation and other metrics after listening to the processed music. Discussion This state is considered similar to the "totonou" state, which manifests in physical and mental feelings of relaxation, pleasure, and mental clarity in the sauna. Thus, the present research proposes a convenient method for achieving relaxation, opening an avenue for individuals to customize their "totonou" music based on personal preferences.
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Shen D, Ross B, Alain C. Temporal deployment of attention in musicians: Evidence from an attentional blink paradigm. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2023; 1530:110-123. [PMID: 37823710 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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The generalization of music training to unrelated nonmusical domains is well established and may reflect musicians' superior ability to regulate attention. We investigated the temporal deployment of attention in musicians and nonmusicians using scalp-recording of event-related potentials in an attentional blink (AB) paradigm. Participants listened to rapid sequences of stimuli and identified target and probe sounds. The AB was defined as a probe identification deficit when the probe closely follows the target. The sequence of stimuli was preceded by a neutral or informative cue about the probe position within the sequence. Musicians outperformed nonmusicians in identifying the target and probe. In both groups, cueing improved target and probe identification and reduced the AB. The informative cue elicited a sustained potential, which was more prominent in musicians than nonmusicians over left temporal areas and yielded a larger N1 amplitude elicited by the target. The N1 was larger in musicians than nonmusicians, and its amplitude over the left frontocentral cortex of musicians correlated with accuracy. Together, these results reveal musicians' superior ability to regulate attention, allowing them to prepare for incoming stimuli, thereby improving sound object identification. This capacity to manage attentional resources to optimize task performance may generalize to nonmusical activities.
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- Dawei Shen
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Chang M, Ibaraki T, Naruse Y, Imamura Y. A study on neural changes induced by sauna bathing: Neural basis of the "totonou" state. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0294137. [PMID: 38011189 PMCID: PMC10681252 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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Saunas are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, being an activity that promotes relaxation and health. Intense feelings of happiness have been reported shortly after enjoying a hot sauna and cold water, what is known in Japan as the "totonou" state. However, no research has investigated what occurs in the brain during the "totonou" state. In the present study, participants underwent a sauna phase, consisting of three sets of alternating hot sauna, cold water, and rest. We elucidated changes in brain activity and mood in the "totonou" state by measuring and comparing brain activity and emotional scales before and after the sauna phase and during the rest phase in each set. We found significant increases in theta and alpha power during rest and after the sauna phase compared to before the sauna phase. Moreover, in an auditory oddball task, the p300 amplitude decreased significantly and MMN amplitude increased significantly after the sauna phase. The increase in MMN indicates higher activation of the pre-attentional auditory process, leading to a decrease in attention-related brain activity P300. Hence, the brain reaches in a more efficient state. Further, the response time in behavioral tasks decreased significantly. In addition, the participants' subjective responses to the questionnaire showed significant changes in physical relaxation and other indicators after being in the sauna. Finally, we developed an artificial intelligence classifier, obtaining an average accuracy of brain state classification of 88.34%. The results have potential for future application.
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- Ming Chang
- Vie Style, Inc., Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
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Maslin MRD, Wise KJ, Purdy SC. The mismatch response in normal hearing adults: a performance comparison with stimuli relevant for objective validation of hearing aid fittings. Int J Audiol 2023; 62:1084-1094. [PMID: 36628549 DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2142682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A long-standing observation is that the Mismatch Response (MMR) has the potential to offer a clinically feasible index of sound discrimination. However, findings that positively identify MMRs at the individual level have been mixed, even for those who are normally hearing and who can discriminate sounds behaviourally. This complicates interpretation when an MMR is not observed. The objective of this study was to determine the reliability of the MMR using an optimised paradigm and a range of stimuli relevant to audiological applications in relation to objective verification of hearing aid fittings. DESIGN MMRs were measured using an optimised 3-deviant paradigm in response to a range of sounds designed for aided and unaided sound field assessments, including complex tones (CTs) and speech-like signals. STUDY SAMPLE Seventeen normally hearing adults (18-56 years). RESULTS The most robust MMRs were recorded in response to CTs; responses were positively identified in 50 out of 51 instances (98%), assessed via objective Hotelling's T2 bias-free statistical analyses. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that CTs in conjunction with optimised recording and analysis parameters offer the potential to elicit robust MMRs, supporting future utilisation of MMRs for clinical audiological applications.
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- Michael R D Maslin
- School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing, The University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Eisdell Moore Centre for Hearing and Balance Research, New Zealand
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- Eisdell Moore Centre for Hearing and Balance Research, New Zealand
- School of Psychology, Speech Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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- Eisdell Moore Centre for Hearing and Balance Research, New Zealand
- School of Psychology, Speech Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Sun Y, Lei F, Zou K, Zheng Z. Rapid improvements and subsequent effects in major depressive disorder patients with somatic pain using rTMS combined with sertraline. Sci Rep 2023; 13:17973. [PMID: 37863972 PMCID: PMC10589316 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44887-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
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This study aims to explore changes in depression and pain for major depressive disorder (MDD) patients with somatic pain after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique. Eighty MDD patients with somatic pain were randomly assigned to drug therapy (DT) and combined therapy (CT) groups. CT group underwent intermittent theta burst stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) with 800 pulses and 1 Hz over the right DLPFC with 800 pulses, 5 times a week for 3 weeks. All patients were given sertraline at 50-100 mg per day. All subjects were evaluated at baseline and at weeks three and six of therapy using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), and Numerical Rating Scales (NRS), and the latency and amplitude of P300 and mismatch negativity (MMN) were measured. There were no significant differences in all indices between groups at baseline. At 3 weeks, HAMD subscale scores of Cognitive Impairment and NRS scores were significantly lower in the CT group than in the DT group. At 6 weeks, NRS and HAMD total scores in the CT group decreased significantly in the CT group compared with the DT group, especially for anxiety and pain, and the MMN and P300 latencies and P300 amplitude showed greater improvements. Our findings highlight that rTMS in combination with antidepressants is a rapid method of symptom improvement in patients with somatic pain with MDD and is helpful for cognitive impairment and anxiety.
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- Yuanfeng Sun
- Neurobiological Detection Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Neurobiological Detection Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Neurobiological Detection Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- Neurobiological Detection Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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Herman D, Baker S, Chow R, Cazes J, Alain C, Rosenbaum RS. Mismatch negativity as a marker of auditory pattern separation. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:10181-10193. [PMID: 37522256 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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To what extent does incidental encoding of auditory stimuli influence subsequent episodic memory for the same stimuli? We examined whether the mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential generated by auditory change detection, is correlated with participants' ability to discriminate those stimuli (i.e. targets) from highly similar lures and from dissimilar foils. We measured the MMN in 30 young adults (18-32 years, 18 females) using a passive auditory oddball task with standard and deviant 5-tone sequences differing in pitch contour. After exposure, all participants completed an incidental memory test for old targets, lures, and foils. As expected, participants at test exhibited high sensitivity in recognizing target items relative to foils and lower sensitivity in recognizing target items relative to lures. Notably, we found a significant correlation between MMN amplitude and lure discrimination, but not foil discrimination. Our investigation shows that our capacity to discriminate sensory inputs at encoding, as measured by the MMN, translates into precision in memory for those inputs.
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- Deena Herman
- Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6A 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6A 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6A 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6A 2E1, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, 1 King's College Circle, Medical Sciences Building, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6A 2E1, Canada
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Kao C, Zhang Y. Detecting Emotional Prosody in Real Words: Electrophysiological Evidence From a Modified Multifeature Oddball Paradigm. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2023; 66:2988-2998. [PMID: 37379567 DOI: 10.1044/2023_jslhr-22-00652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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PURPOSE Emotional voice conveys important social cues that demand listeners' attention and timely processing. This event-related potential study investigated the feasibility of a multifeature oddball paradigm to examine adult listeners' neural responses to detecting emotional prosody changes in nonrepeating naturally spoken words. METHOD Thirty-three adult listeners completed the experiment by passively listening to the words in neutral and three alternating emotions while watching a silent movie. Previous research documented preattentive change-detection electrophysiological responses (e.g., mismatch negativity [MMN], P3a) to emotions carried by fixed syllables or words. Given that the MMN and P3a have also been shown to reflect extraction of abstract regularities over repetitive acoustic patterns, this study employed a multifeature oddball paradigm to compare listeners' MMN and P3a to emotional prosody change from neutral to angry, happy, and sad emotions delivered with hundreds of nonrepeating words in a single recording session. RESULTS Both MMN and P3a were successfully elicited by the emotional prosodic change over the varying linguistic context. Angry prosody elicited the strongest MMN compared with happy and sad prosodies. Happy prosody elicited the strongest P3a in the centro-frontal electrodes, and angry prosody elicited the smallest P3a. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrated that listeners were able to extract the acoustic patterns for each emotional prosody category over constantly changing spoken words. The findings confirm the feasibility of the multifeature oddball paradigm in investigating emotional speech processing beyond simple acoustic change detection, which may potentially be applied to pediatric and clinical populations.
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- Chieh Kao
- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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Junttila K, Smolander AR, Karhila R, Kurimo M, Ylinen S. Non-game like training benefits spoken foreign-language processing in children with dyslexia. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1122886. [PMID: 36968782 PMCID: PMC10036584 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1122886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Children with dyslexia often face difficulties in learning foreign languages, which is reflected as weaker neural activation. However, digital language-learning applications could support learning-induced plastic changes in the brain. Here we aimed to investigate whether plastic changes occur in children with dyslexia more readily after targeted training with a digital language-learning game or similar training without game-like elements. We used auditory event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically, the mismatch negativity (MMN), to study learning-induced changes in the brain responses. Participants were 24 school-aged Finnish-speaking children with dyslexia and 24 age-matched typically reading control children. They trained English speech sounds and words with "Say it again, kid!" (SIAK) language-learning game for 5 weeks between ERP measurements. During the game, the players explored game boards and produced English words aloud to score stars as feedback from an automatic speech recognizer. To compare the effectiveness of the training type (game vs. non-game), we embedded in the game some non-game levels stripped of all game-like elements. In the dyslexia group, the non-game training increased the MMN amplitude more than the game training, whereas in the control group the game training increased the MMN response more than the non-game training. In the dyslexia group, the MMN increase with the non-game training correlated with phonological awareness: the children with poorer phonological awareness showed a larger increase in the MMN response. Improved neural processing of foreign speech sounds as indicated by the MMN increase suggests that targeted training with a simple application could alleviate some spoken foreign-language learning difficulties that are related to phonological processing in children with dyslexia.
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- Katja Junttila
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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Gumenyuk V, Korzyukov O, Tapaskar N, Wagner M, Larson CR, Hammer MJ. Deficiency in Re-Orienting of Attention in Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Clin EEG Neurosci 2023; 54:141-150. [PMID: 35861774 DOI: 10.1177/15500594221115737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Objective: To characterize potential brain indexes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. Methods: In an effort to develop objective, laboratory-based tests that can help to establish ADHD diagnosis, the brain indexes of distractibility was investigated in a group of adults. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and performance measures in a forced-choice visual task. Results: Behaviorally aberrant distractibility in the ADHD group was significantly higher. Across three ERP components of distraction: N1 enhancement, P300 (P3a), and Reorienting Negativity (RON) the significant difference between ADHD and matched controls was found in the amplitude of the RON. We used non-parametric randomization tests, enabling us to statistically validated this difference between-group. Conclusions: Our main results of this feasibility study suggest that among other ERP components associated with auditory distraction, the RON response is promising index for a potential biomarker of deficient re-orienting of attention in adults s with ADHD.
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- Valentina Gumenyuk
- Department of Neurological Sciences, MEG laboratory, 12284UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Wisconsin Airway Sensory Physiology Laboratory, 5229University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 3270Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 3270Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.,Department of Medicine, 21727University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 3270Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Wisconsin Airway Sensory Physiology Laboratory, 5229University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, USA
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Weise A, Grimm S, Maria Rimmele J, Schröger E. Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2023; 237:105221. [PMID: 36623340 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The basic features of short sounds, such as frequency and intensity including their temporal dynamics, are integrated in a unitary representation. Knowledge on how our brain processes long lasting sounds is scarce. We review research utilizing the Mismatch Negativity event-related potential and neural oscillatory activity for studying representations for long lasting simple versus complex sounds such as sinusoidal tones versus speech. There is evidence for a temporal constraint in the formation of auditory representations: Auditory edges like sound onsets within long lasting sounds open a temporal window of about 350 ms in which the sounds' dynamics are integrated into a representation, while information beyond that window contributes less to that representation. This integration window segments the auditory input into short chunks. We argue that the representations established in adjacent integration windows can be concatenated into an auditory representation of a long sound, thus, overcoming the temporal constraint.
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- Annekathrin Weise
- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany; Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York University, Max Planck Institute, Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, United States.
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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Distinct Neural Resource Involvements but Similar Hemispheric Lateralization Patterns in Pre-Attentive Processing of Speaker's Identity and Linguistic Information. Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13020192. [PMID: 36831735 PMCID: PMC9954658 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13020192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The speaker's identity (who the speaker is) and linguistic information (what the speaker is saying) are essential to daily communication. However, it is unclear whether and how listeners process the two types of information differently in speech perception. The present study adopted a passive oddball paradigm to compare the identity and linguistic information processing concerning neural resource involvements and hemispheric lateralization patterns. We used two female native Mandarin speakers' real and pseudo-Mandarin words to differentiate the identity from linguistic (phonological and lexical) information. The results showed that, in real words, the phonological-lexical variation elicited larger MMN amplitudes than the identity variation. In contrast, there were no significant MMN amplitude differences between the identity and phonological variation in pseudo words. Regardless of real or pseudo words, the identity and linguistic variation did not elicit MMN amplitudes differences between the left and right hemispheres. Taken together, findings from the present study indicated that the identity information recruited similar neural resources to the phonological information but different neural resources from the lexical information. However, the identity and linguistic information processing did not show a particular hemispheric lateralization pattern at an early pre-attentive speech perception stage. The findings revealed similarities and differences between linguistic and non-linguistic information processing, contributing to a better understanding of speech perception and spoken word recognition.
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Wei Y, Liang X, Guo X, Wang X, Qi Y, Ali R, Wu M, Qian R, Wang M, Qiu B, Li H, Fu X, Chen L. Brain hemispheres with right temporal lobe damage swap dominance in early auditory processing of lexical tones. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:909796. [PMID: 36090259 PMCID: PMC9459135 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.909796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Labor division of the two brain hemispheres refers to the dominant processing of input information on one side of the brain. At an early stage, or a preattentive stage, the right brain hemisphere is shown to dominate the auditory processing of tones, including lexical tones. However, little is known about the influence of brain damage on the labor division of the brain hemispheres for the auditory processing of linguistic tones. Here, we demonstrate swapped dominance of brain hemispheres at the preattentive stage of auditory processing of Chinese lexical tones after a stroke in the right temporal lobe (RTL). In this study, we frequently presented lexical tones to a group of patients with a stroke in the RTL and infrequently varied the tones to create an auditory contrast. The contrast evoked a mismatch negativity response, which indexes auditory processing at the preattentive stage. In the participants with a stroke in the RTL, the mismatch negativity response was lateralized to the left side, in contrast to the right lateralization pattern in the control participants. The swapped dominance of brain hemispheres indicates that the RTL is a core area for early-stage auditory tonal processing. Our study indicates the necessity of rehabilitating tonal processing functions for tonal language speakers who suffer an RTL injury.
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- Yarui Wei
- Biomedical Engineering Center, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Biomedical Engineering Center, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Biomedical Engineering Center, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Biomedical Engineering Center, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Clinical Hearing Center, Affiliated Eye and ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Clinical Hearing Center, Affiliated Eye and ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Junttila K, Smolander AR, Karhila R, Giannakopoulou A, Uther M, Kurimo M, Ylinen S. Gaming enhances learning-induced plastic changes in the brain. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2022; 230:105124. [PMID: 35487084 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Digital games may benefit children's learning, yet the factors that induce gaming benefits to cognition are not well known. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of digital game-based learning in children by comparing the learning of foreign speech sounds and words in a digital game or a non-game digital application. To evaluate gaming-induced plastic changes in the brain, we used the mismatch negativity (MMN) brain response that reflects the access to long-term memory representations. We recorded auditory brain responses from 37 school-aged Finnish-speaking children before and after playing a computer-based language-learning game. The MMN amplitude increased between the pre- and post-measurement for the game condition but not for the non-game condition, suggesting that the gaming intervention enhanced learning more than the non-game intervention. The results indicate that digital games can be beneficial for children's speech-sound learning and that gaming elements per se, not just practice time, support learning.
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- Katja Junttila
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland; Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
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- Aalto University, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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- Centre for Psychological Research, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, M305, Millenium City Building, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, United Kingdom.
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- Aalto University, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, POB 21, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland; Logopedics, Welfare Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; CICERO Learning, Faculty of Educational Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Oddball-irrelevant visual stimuli cross-modally attenuate auditory mismatch negativity in rats. Neuroreport 2022; 33:363-368. [DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Brace KM, Sussman ES. The Brain Tracks Multiple Predictions About the Auditory Scene. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:747769. [PMID: 34803633 PMCID: PMC8595267 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.747769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The predictable rhythmic structure is important to most ecologically relevant sounds for humans, such as is found in the rhythm of speech or music. This study addressed the question of how rhythmic predictions are maintained in the auditory system when there are multiple perceptual interpretations occurring simultaneously and emanating from the same sound source. We recorded the electroencephalogram (EEG) while presenting participants with a tone sequence that had two different tone feature patterns, one based on the sequential rhythmic variation in tone duration and the other on sequential rhythmic variation in tone intensity. Participants were presented with the same sound sequences and were instructed to listen for the intensity pattern (ignore fluctuations in duration) and press a response key to detected pattern deviants (attend intensity pattern task); to listen to the duration pattern (ignore fluctuations in intensity) and make a button press to duration pattern deviants (attend duration pattern task), and to watch a movie and ignore the sounds presented to their ears (attend visual task). Both intensity and duration patterns occurred predictably 85% of the time, thus the key question involved evaluating how the brain treated the irrelevant feature patterns (standards and deviants) while performing an auditory or visual task. We expected that task-based feature patterns would have a more robust brain response to attended standards and deviants than the unattended feature patterns. Instead, we found that the neural entrainment to the rhythm of the standard attended patterns had similar power to the standard of the unattended feature patterns. In addition, the infrequent pattern deviants elicited the event-related brain potential called the mismatch negativity component (MMN). The MMN elicited by task-based feature pattern deviants had a similar amplitude to MMNs elicited by unattended pattern deviants that were unattended because they were not the target pattern or because the participant ignored the sounds and watched a movie. Thus, these results demonstrate that the brain tracks multiple predictions about the complexities in sound streams and can automatically track and detect deviations with respect to these predictions. This capability would be useful for switching attention rapidly among multiple objects in a busy auditory scene.
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- Kelin M Brace
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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Liu P, Zhu H, Chen M, Hong Q, Chi X. Electrophysiological Screening for Children With Suspected Auditory Processing Disorder: A Systematic Review. Front Neurol 2021; 12:692840. [PMID: 34497576 PMCID: PMC8419449 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.692840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: This research aimed to provide evidence for the early identification and intervention of children at risk for auditory processing disorder (APD). Electrophysiological studies on children with suspected APDs were systematically reviewed to understand the different electrophysiological characteristics of children with suspected APDs. Methods: Computerized databases such as PubMed, Cochrane, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and EMBASE were searched for retrieval of articles since the establishment of the database through May 18, 2020. Cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies that evaluated the literature for the electrophysiological assessment of children with suspected APD were independently reviewed by two researchers for literature screening, literature quality assessment, and data extraction. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and 11 entries recommended by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality were used to evaluate the quality of the literature. Results: In accordance with the inclusion criteria, 14 articles were included. These articles involved 7 electrophysiological testing techniques: click-evoked auditory brainstem responses, frequency-following responses, the binaural interaction component of the auditory brainstem responses, the middle-latency response, cortical auditory evoked potential, mismatch negativity, and P300. The literature quality was considered moderate. Conclusions: Auditory electrophysiological testing can be used for the characteristic identification of children with suspected APD; however, the value of various electrophysiological testing methods for screening children with suspected APD requires further study.
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- Panting Liu
- School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Child Health Care, The Affiliated Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- School of Nursing, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Child Health Care, The Affiliated Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Child Health Care, The Affiliated Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Nanjing, China
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Dyball A, Xu Rattanasone N, Ibrahim R, Sharma M. Alpha synchronisation of acoustic responses in active listening is indicative of native language listening experience. Int J Audiol 2021; 61:490-499. [PMID: 34237224 DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1941326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Examine the effect of language experience on auditory evoked and oscillatory brain responses to lexical tone in passive (ACC) and active (P300) listening conditions. DESIGN Language experience was evaluated using two groups, Mandarin- vs. English-listeners (with vs. without lexical tone experience). Two Mandarin lexical tones with pitch movement (T2 rising; T3 dipping) produced on the syllable /ba/ were used as stimuli. For passive listening, each tone was presented in a block. For active listening, each tone was the standard (80%) or deviant (20%) presented in two blocks. Presentation order was counterbalanced across participants in both tasks. STUDY SAMPLE 10 adult Mandarin-listeners and 13 Australian-English-listeners contributed to the data. RESULTS Both global field power (GFP) and time frequency analysis (TFA) failed to detect group differences in passive listening conditions for the ACC response. In contrast, the active listening condition revealed significant group differences for T2. GFP showed a trending significance with larger GFP (less consistent responses) in English- than Mandarin-listeners. TFA showed significantly higher alpha synchronisation (more focussed attention) for Mandarin- compared to English-listeners. CONCLUSIONS Acoustic responses to speech is influenced by language experience but only during active listening, suggesting that focussed attention is linked to higher level language processes.
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- Alyssa Dyball
- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.,Centre for Language Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.,Multilingualism Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Cheng YY, Wu HC, Shih HY, Yeh PW, Yen HL, Lee CY. Deficits in Processing of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-Speaking Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Electrophysiological Evidence. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2021; 64:1176-1188. [PMID: 33789056 DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-19-00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Purpose This study explored the neural marker indexing deficits in discriminating lexical tone changes in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) using mismatch negativity, an event-related potential component for auditory change detection. Mandarin has four lexical tones characterized by a high-level tone (T1), high-rising tone (T2), low-dipping tone (T3), and high-falling tone (T4), in which the T2/T3 contrast is acoustically less discriminable in developmental groups. Therefore, this study further examined how deficits in children with DLD would vary with tonal contrasts' acoustic saliency. Method Event-related potentials were measured using the multideviant oddball paradigm described by Lee et al. (2012), who used Mandarin syllables [i] in T3 as the standard sound (80%), T1 as the large deviant (10%), and T2 as the small deviant (10%). Twelve children with DLD aged between 4 and 6 years participated in this study, and 12 age-matched children with typical development were selected from the data set of Lee et al. (2012) as the controls. Results The T1/T3 change elicited adultlike mismatch negativity in both the DLD and control groups, while no group difference was revealed. The T2/T3 change elicited a robust positive mismatch response (P-MMR) in children with DLD, while the P-MMR was less significant in the control group. The group comparisons revealed a larger P-MMR in children with DLD than in the control group. Furthermore, children with lower scores in language assessments tend to reveal larger P-MMRs. Conclusions This study demonstrated that deficits in children with DLD in discriminating subtle lexical tone changes reflect greater positivity of P-MMR to T2/T3 change. This implies that MMR to T2/T3 may serve as a neural marker for evaluating language delay in preschoolers.
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
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- Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
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Coy N, Bader M, Schröger E, Grimm S. Change detection of auditory tonal patterns defined by absolute versus relative pitch information. A combined behavioural and EEG study. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0247495. [PMID: 33630974 PMCID: PMC7906474 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The human auditory system often relies on relative pitch information to extract and identify auditory objects; such as when the same melody is played in different keys. The current study investigated the mental chronometry underlying the active discrimination of unfamiliar melodic six-tone patterns by measuring behavioural performance and event-related potentials (ERPs). In a roving standard paradigm, such patterns were either repeated identically within a stimulus train, carrying absolute frequency information about the pattern, or shifted in pitch (transposed) between repetitions, so only relative pitch information was available to extract the pattern identity. Results showed that participants were able to use relative pitch to detect when a new melodic pattern occurred. Though in the absence of absolute pitch sensitivity significantly decreased and behavioural reaction time to pattern changes increased. Mismatch-Negativity (MMN), an ERP indicator of auditory deviance detection, was elicited at approximately 206 ms after stimulus onset at frontocentral electrodes, even when only relative pitch was available to inform pattern discrimination. A P3a was elicited in both conditions, comparable in amplitude and latency. Increased latencies but no differences in amplitudes of N2b, and P3b suggest that processing at higher levels is affected when, in the absence of absolute pitch cues, relative pitch has to be extracted to inform pattern discrimination. Interestingly, the response delay of approximately 70 ms on the behavioural level, already fully manifests at the level of N2b. This is in accordance with recent findings on implicit auditory learning processes and suggests that in the absence of absolute pitch cues a slowing of target selection rather than a slowing of the auditory pattern change detection process causes the deterioration in behavioural performance.
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- Nina Coy
- Institute of Psychology–Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology–Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology–Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology–Wilhelm Wundt, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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Aoi T, Fujisawa TX, Nishitani S, Tomoda A. Mismatch negativity of preschool children at risk of developing mental health problems. Neuropsychopharmacol Rep 2021; 41:185-191. [PMID: 33606363 PMCID: PMC8340815 DOI: 10.1002/npr2.12168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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This study examined the relationship between mismatch negativity (MMN) during the passive oddball task and clinical assessment using a behavioral scale in nonclinical preschool children to identify neurobiological endophenotypes associated with the risk of developing mental health problems. We assessed the risk of developing mental health problems in preschool children using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, which is used worldwide as a behavior‐based screening tool for assessing mental health risks, and examined its relevance to amplitude and latency MMN. As a result, we found that children at a higher risk of mental health problems had smaller MMN amplitudes than those at lower risk. It was also found that MMN amplitude was negatively correlated with the assessed higher risk of mental health problems. Although it is not clear what neural mechanisms underlie the functional association between MMN and risk of mental health problems in preschool children, the findings of this study indicate that there is an involvement of individual differences in auditory processing in childhood mental health problems. The findings suggest that such neurological changes may be prodromal symptoms of the onset of psychiatric disorders and applicable as endophenotypic markers for the early detection of various psychiatric disorders. This study examined the relationship between mismatch negativity (MMN) during the passive oddball task and clinical assessment using a behavioral scale in nonclinical preschool children to identify neurobiological endophenotypes associated with the risk of developing mental health problems. We found that children at a higher risk of mental health problems had smaller MMN amplitudes than those at lower risk. It was also found that MMN amplitude was negatively correlated with the assessed higher risk of mental health problems.![]()
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- Toshiya Aoi
- Department of Child DevelopmentUnited Graduate School of Child DevelopmentOsaka UniversityKanazawa UniversityHamamatsu University School of MedicineChiba University and University of FukuiOsakaJapan
- Department of NursingFaculty of Health ScienceFukui Health Science UniversityFukuiJapan
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- Department of Child DevelopmentUnited Graduate School of Child DevelopmentOsaka UniversityKanazawa UniversityHamamatsu University School of MedicineChiba University and University of FukuiOsakaJapan
- Research Center for Child Mental DevelopmentUniversity of FukuiFukuiJapan
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- Research Center for Child Mental DevelopmentUniversity of FukuiFukuiJapan
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- Department of Child DevelopmentUnited Graduate School of Child DevelopmentOsaka UniversityKanazawa UniversityHamamatsu University School of MedicineChiba University and University of FukuiOsakaJapan
- Research Center for Child Mental DevelopmentUniversity of FukuiFukuiJapan
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Cummings AE, Wu YC, Ogiela DA. Phonological Underspecification: An Explanation for How a Rake Can Become Awake. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:585817. [PMID: 33679342 PMCID: PMC7925882 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.585817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Neural markers, such as the mismatch negativity (MMN), have been used to examine the phonological underspecification of English feature contrasts using the Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL) model. However, neural indices have not been examined within the approximant phoneme class, even though there is evidence suggesting processing asymmetries between liquid (e.g., /ɹ/) and glide (e.g., /w/) phonemes. The goal of this study was to determine whether glide phonemes elicit electrophysiological asymmetries related to [consonantal] underspecification when contrasted with liquid phonemes in adult English speakers. Specifically, /ɹɑ/ is categorized as [+consonantal] while /wɑ/ is not specified [i.e., (-consonantal)]. Following the FUL framework, if /w/ is less specified than /ɹ/, the former phoneme should elicit a larger MMN response than the latter phoneme. Fifteen English-speaking adults were presented with two syllables, /ɹɑ/ and /wɑ/, in an event-related potential (ERP) oddball paradigm in which both syllables served as the standard and deviant stimulus in opposite stimulus sets. Three types of analyses were used: (1) traditional mean amplitude measurements; (2) cluster-based permutation analyses; and (3) event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) analyses. The less specified /wɑ/ elicited a large MMN, while a much smaller MMN was elicited by the more specified /ɹɑ/. In the standard and deviant ERP waveforms, /wɑ/ elicited a significantly larger negative response than did /ɹɑ/. Theta activity elicited by /ɹɑ/ was significantly greater than that elicited by /wɑ/ in the 100-300 ms time window. Also, low gamma activation was significantly lower for /ɹɑ/ vs. /wɑ/ deviants over the left hemisphere, as compared to the right, in the 100-150 ms window. These outcomes suggest that the [consonantal] feature follows the underspecification predictions of FUL previously tested with the place of articulation and voicing features. Thus, this study provides new evidence for phonological underspecification. Moreover, as neural oscillation patterns have not previously been discussed in the underspecification literature, the ERSP analyses identified potential new indices of phonological underspecification.
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- Alycia E. Cummings
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Idaho State University, Meridian, ID, United States
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- Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Idaho State University, Meridian, ID, United States
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Vaquero L, Ramos-Escobar N, Cucurell D, François C, Putkinen V, Segura E, Huotilainen M, Penhune V, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Arcuate fasciculus architecture is associated with individual differences in pre-attentive detection of unpredicted music changes. Neuroimage 2021; 229:117759. [PMID: 33454403 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event related brain potential (ERP) elicited by unpredicted sounds presented in a sequence of repeated auditory stimuli. The neural sources of the MMN have been previously attributed to a fronto-temporo-parietal network which crucially overlaps with the so-called auditory dorsal stream, involving inferior and middle frontal, inferior parietal, and superior and middle temporal regions. These cortical areas are structurally connected by the arcuate fasciculus (AF), a three-branch pathway supporting the feedback-feedforward loop involved in auditory-motor integration, auditory working memory, storage of acoustic templates, as well as comparison and update of those templates. Here, we characterized the individual differences in the white-matter macrostructural properties of the AF and explored their link to the electrophysiological marker of passive change detection gathered in a melodic multifeature MMN-EEG paradigm in 26 healthy young adults without musical training. Our results show that left fronto-temporal white-matter connectivity plays an important role in the pre-attentive detection of rhythm modulations within a melody. Previous studies have shown that this AF segment is also critical for language processing and learning. This strong coupling between structure and function in auditory change detection might be related to life-time linguistic (and possibly musical) exposure and experiences, as well as to timing processing specialization of the left auditory cortex. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time in which the relationship between neurophysiological (EEG) and brain white-matter connectivity indexes using DTI-tractography are studied together. Thus, the present results, although still exploratory, add to the existing evidence on the importance of studying the constraints imposed on cognitive functions by the underlying structural connectivity.
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- Lucía Vaquero
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid and Polytechnic University of Madrid, Campus Científico y Tecnológico de la UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cicero Learning and Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Penhune Laboratory for Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS). Montreal, QC, Canada; Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), McGill University. Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Friston KJ, Sajid N, Quiroga-Martinez DR, Parr T, Price CJ, Holmes E. Active listening. Hear Res 2021; 399:107998. [PMID: 32732017 PMCID: PMC7812378 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This paper introduces active listening, as a unified framework for synthesising and recognising speech. The notion of active listening inherits from active inference, which considers perception and action under one universal imperative: to maximise the evidence for our (generative) models of the world. First, we describe a generative model of spoken words that simulates (i) how discrete lexical, prosodic, and speaker attributes give rise to continuous acoustic signals; and conversely (ii) how continuous acoustic signals are recognised as words. The 'active' aspect involves (covertly) segmenting spoken sentences and borrows ideas from active vision. It casts speech segmentation as the selection of internal actions, corresponding to the placement of word boundaries. Practically, word boundaries are selected that maximise the evidence for an internal model of how individual words are generated. We establish face validity by simulating speech recognition and showing how the inferred content of a sentence depends on prior beliefs and background noise. Finally, we consider predictive validity by associating neuronal or physiological responses, such as the mismatch negativity and P300, with belief updating under active listening, which is greatest in the absence of accurate prior beliefs about what will be heard next.
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- Karl J Friston
- The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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- The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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- The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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- The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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- The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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He X, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Go R, Wu J, Li C, Gan K, Chen D. Effects of Visual Attentional Load on the Tactile Sensory Memory Indexed by Somatosensory Mismatch Negativity. Front Neuroinform 2020; 14:575078. [PMID: 33324187 PMCID: PMC7724049 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2020.575078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Auditory sensory memory indexed by mismatch negativity has been broadly studied over the past century, but far less attention has been directed to tactile sensory memory. To investigate whether tactile sensory memory is affected by attention, we recorded somatosensory mismatch negativity (sMMN) from 24 healthy adults in two experiments to distinguish sustained attention from non-sustained attention. Using the roving somatosensory oddball paradigm, we analyzed the average dynamic changes in the amplitude and latency of sMMN amplitude and found a clear sMMN component at the central region at a 100–300 ms interval. The sMMN amplitude, which indexes the early detection of tactile stimuli with the sensory memory trace, was larger in the tactile attentional task. Additionally, the sMMN latency increased with the increasing visual attentional load, which indicates a decay of tactile sensory memory. Our results indicate that the more attention resources are allocated for a tactile sensation, the more favorable it is to the generation of tactile sensory memory.
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- Xin He
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robots and Systems, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- Intelligent Robotics Institute, School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robots and Systems, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Guangdong Country Garden School, Guangdong, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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El Hatal de Souza A, Pinto JD, Mezommo CL, Vieira Biaggio EP. Mismatch Negativity in children with Phonological Disorders. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2020; 139:110445. [PMID: 33080473 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2020.110445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE to characterize the latency, amplitude and area variables of the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) elicited with verbal stimuli in children with PD, in addition to assessing whether this potential can be a useful tool in capturing auditory perception and discrimination deficits related to this disorder. METHODS MMN was recorded using a combination of speech contrast consisting of acoustic syllables [da vs ta], as the standard and deviant stimuli, in 34 children aged between 5 and 8 years. 14 children of the sample were already diagnosed with Phonological Disorder (PD) while 19 were characterized with typical development. RESULTS No statistically significant differences were observed for the MMN responses recorded between children with PD and their typically developed peers. CONCLUSION The results suggest that the MMN may not be the most suitable procedure to assess auditory perception and discrimination deficits that could potentially be related to PD.
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- Speech Therapy Department, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil.
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Visual mismatch negativity elicited by semantic violations in visual words. Brain Res 2020; 1746:147010. [PMID: 32663455 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The remarkable rapidity and effortlessness of speech perception and word reading by skilled listeners or readers suggest implicit or automatic mechanisms underlying language processing. In speech perception, the implicit mechanisms are reflected by the auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) response, suggesting that phonemic, lexical, semantic, and syntactic information are automatically and rapidly processed in the absence of focused attention. In visual word reading, implicit orthographic and lexical processing are reflected by visual mismatch negativity (vMMN), the visual counterpart of auditory MMN. The semantic processing of spoken words is reflected by MMN. This study investigated whether semantic processing is also reflected by vMMN. For this purpose, visual Chinese words belonging to different semantic categories (color, taste, and action) were presented to participants in oddball paradigms. A set of words belonging to the same semantic category was frequently presented as standards; a word belonging to a different semantic category was presented sporadically as deviant. Participants were instructed to perform a visual cross-change detection task and ignore the words. Significant vMMN was elicited in Experiments 1 to 3, in which the deviant word carried a semantic radical that overtly indicated the word's semantic category information. The vMMNs were most prominent around 260 ms after word onset, were parieto-occipital distributed, and were significantly left-hemisphere lateralized, suggesting rapid semantic processing of the visual words' category-related information. No significant vMMN was elicited in Experiment 4, in which the deviant word did not carry any semantic radicals. Thus, the semantic radical, which has a high frequency of occurrence because it is carried by many words, may be critical for the elicitation of vMMN.
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Paitel ER, Samii MR, Nielson KA. A systematic review of cognitive event-related potentials in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Behav Brain Res 2020; 396:112904. [PMID: 32941881 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 08/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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This systematic review examined whether event-related potentials (ERPs) during higher cognitive processing can detect subtle, early signs of neurodegenerative disease. Original, empirical studies retrieved from PsycINFO and PubMed were reviewed if they analyzed patterns in cognitive ERPs (≥150 ms post-stimulus) differentiating mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer's disease (AD), or cognitively intact elders who carry AD risk through the Apolipoprotein-E ε4 allele (ε4+) from healthy older adult controls (HC). The 100 studies meeting inclusion criteria (MCI = 47; AD = 47; ε4+ = 6) analyzed N200, P300, N400, and occasionally, later components. While there was variability across studies, patterns of reduced amplitude and delayed latency were apparent in pathological aging, consistent with AD-related brain atrophy and cognitive impairment. These effects were particularly evident in advanced disease progression (i.e., AD > MCI) and in later ERP components measured during complex tasks. Although ERP studies in intact ε4+ elders are thus far scarce, a similar pattern of delayed latency was notable, along with a contrasting pattern of increased amplitude, consistent with compensatory neural activation. This limited work suggests ERPs might be able to index early neural changes indicative of future cognitive decline in otherwise healthy elders. As ERPs are also accessible and affordable relative to other neuroimaging methods, their addition to cognitive assessment might substantively enhance early identification and characterization of neural dysfunction, allowing opportunity for earlier differential diagnosis and targeting of intervention. To evaluate this possibility there is urgent need for well-powered studies assessing late cognitive ERPs during complex tasks, particularly in healthy elders at risk for cognitive decline.
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- Marquette University, Department of Psychology, United States; Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Neurology and the Center for Imaging Research, United States.
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Green HL, Shuffrey LC, Levinson L, Shen G, Avery T, Randazzo Wagner M, Sepulveda DM, Garcia P, Maddox C, Garcia F, Hassan S, Froud K. Evaluation of mismatch negativity as a marker for language impairment in autism spectrum disorder. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2020; 87:105997. [PMID: 32521234 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2020.105997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND The identification of an early and objective marker of language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has the potential to lead to earlier language intervention for affected children. The mismatch negativity (MMN), a passive auditory evoked potential, offers insight into the brain's ability to direct attention to novel sounds. Since exposure to speech is necessary for learning to map meaning onto phonemes, we predicted slower MMN responses to speech sounds would indicate presence of language impairment in ASD. METHODS We explored the relationship between MMN latency in children ages 5-10 with ASD plus language impairment (ASD + LI), ASD minus language impairment (ASD-LI), and typically developing children (TD) during an auditory oddball experiment presenting speech and pure tone sounds. RESULTS Contrary to our prediction, children with ASD + LI demonstrated decreased MMN latency in the left hemisphere in response to novel vowel sounds compared to children with ASD-LI and TD controls. Parent responses to the Sensory Experiences Questionnaire revealed that all participating individuals with ASD were hypersensitive to sounds. CONCLUSIONS Our results lend support to the theory that some children with ASD + LI have increased connectivity in primary sensory cortices at the expense of connectivity to association areas of the brain. This may account for faster speech sound processing despite low language scores in these children. Future studies should focus on individuals with language impairment and hyper-or hyposensitivity to sounds.
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- Heather L Green
- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Department of Radiology, Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, 3960 Broadway, New York, NY 10032, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Department of Psychotherapy, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Haskins Laboratories, Yale University, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Adelphi University, One South Ave., Garden City, NY 11530, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Sede Villarrica, Villarrica, La Araucania Region 4930000, Chile
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Universidad de los Andes, Calle 18 A #0-19 Este., Casita Rosada, Colombia
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; Temple University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19122 United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States; University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1155 Thorndike Hall, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States
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Sugiyama S, Kinukawa T, Takeuchi N, Nishihara M, Shioiri T, Inui K. Assessment of haptic memory using somatosensory change-related cortical responses. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:4892-4900. [PMID: 32845051 PMCID: PMC7643370 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2020] [Revised: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Haptic memory briefly retains somatosensory information for later use; however, how and which cortical areas are affected by haptic memory remain unclear. We used change-related cortical responses to investigate the relationship between the somatosensory cortex and haptic memory objectively. Electrical pulses, at 50 Hz with a duration of 500 ms, were randomly applied to the second, third, and fourth fingers of the right and left hands at an even probability every 800 ms. Each stimulus was labeled as D (preceded by a different side) or S (preceded by the same side). The D stimuli were further classified into 1D, 2D, and 3D, according to the number of different preceding stimuli. The S stimuli were similarly divided into 1S and 2S. The somatosensory-evoked magnetic fields obtained were divided into four components via a dipole analysis, and each component's amplitudes were measured using the source strength waveform. The results showed that the preceding event did not affect the amplitude of the earliest 20-30 ms response in the primary somatosensory cortex. However, in the subsequent three components, the cortical activity amplitude was largest in 3D, followed by 2D, 1D, and S. These results indicate that such modulatory effects occurred somewhere in the somatosensory processing pathway higher than Brodmann's area 3b. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate the existence of haptic memory for somatosensory laterality and its impact on the somatosensory cortex using change-related cortical responses without contamination from peripheral effects.
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- Shunsuke Sugiyama
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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- Department of Functioning and Disability, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Developmental Disability Center, Kasugai, Japan
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Del Re EC, Maekawa T, Mesholam-Gately RI, Wojcik J, Seidman LJ, McCarley RW, Niznikiewicz MA. Abnormal Frequency Mismatch Negativity in Early Psychosis Outpatient Subjects. Clin EEG Neurosci 2020; 51:207-214. [PMID: 31826666 DOI: 10.1177/1550059419886691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Background. Abnormalities of mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential, indexing preattentive mechanisms, are consistently reported in schizophrenia (SZ). MMN abnormalities elicited to different deviant types have been recently shown to distinguish among patients according to length of their illness as well as inpatient versus outpatient status, and to be modulated by premorbid IQ. The objective of this study was to evaluate the MMN elicited by both frequency and duration deviant stimuli in patients with early schizophrenia (EP) recruited from an outpatient clinic in Boston, Massachusetts. Methods. Twenty-two healthy controls (HC) and 22 age-, handedness-, and gender-matched EP were tested using a frequency and duration MMN paradigm. Clinical data were also collected. Results. Frequency MMN amplitude but not duration MMN was significantly reduced in EP relative to HC subjects (P = .015). Conclusions. These results indicate that in this sample of early psychosis outpatient group, reductions in frequency MMN but not in duration MMN index clinical status. The relationship between age at first hospitalization and MMN frequency and duration amplitude and latency indicates that neurodevelopmental stage, auditory function, and clinical status are tightly linked.
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- Elisabetta C Del Re
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Okinawa, Japan
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Public Psychiatry Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Public Psychiatry Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Public Psychiatry Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Friedel EBN, Bach M, Heinrich SP. Attentional Interactions Between Vision and Hearing in Event-Related Responses to Crossmodal and Conjunct Oddballs. Multisens Res 2020; 33:251-275. [PMID: 31972541 DOI: 10.1163/22134808-20191329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Are alternation and co-occurrence of stimuli of different sensory modalities conspicuous? In a novel audio-visual oddball paradigm, the P300 was used as an index of the allocation of attention to investigate stimulus- and task-related interactions between modalities. Specifically, we assessed effects of modality alternation and the salience of conjunct oddball stimuli that were defined by the co-occurrence of both modalities. We presented (a) crossmodal audio-visual oddball sequences, where both oddballs and standards were unimodal, but of a different modality (i.e., visual oddball with auditory standard, or vice versa), and (b) oddball sequences where standards were randomly of either modality while the oddballs were a combination of both modalities (conjunct stimuli). Subjects were instructed to attend to one of the modalities (whether part of a conjunct stimulus or not). In addition, we also tested specific attention to the conjunct stimuli. P300-like responses occurred even when the oddball was of the unattended modality. The pattern of event-related potential (ERP) responses obtained with the two crossmodal oddball sequences switched symmetrically between stimulus modalities when the task modality was switched. Conjunct oddballs elicited no oddball response if only one modality was attended. However, when conjunctness was specifically attended, an oddball response was obtained. Crossmodal oddballs capture sufficient attention even when not attended. Conjunct oddballs, however, are not sufficiently salient to attract attention when the task is unimodal. Even when specifically attended, the processing of conjunctness appears to involve additional steps that delay the oddball response.
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- Evelyn B N Friedel
- 1Eye Center, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany.,2Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- 1Eye Center, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany.,2Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- 1Eye Center, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany.,2Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Zimmermann J, Ross B, Moscovitch M, Alain C. Neural dynamics supporting auditory long-term memory effects on target detection. Neuroimage 2020; 218:116979. [PMID: 32447014 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Auditory long-term memory has been shown to facilitate signal detection. However, the nature and timing of the cognitive processes supporting such benefits remain equivocal. We measured neuroelectric brain activity while young adults were presented with a contextual memory cue designed to assist with the detection of a faint pure tone target embedded in an audio clip of an everyday environmental scene (e.g., the soundtrack of a restaurant). During an initial familiarization task, participants heard such audio clips, half of which included a target sound (memory cue trials) at a specific time and location (left or right ear), as well as audio clips without a target (neutral trials). Following a 1-h or 24-h retention interval, the same audio clips were presented, but now all included a target. Participants were asked to press a button as soon as they heard the pure tone target. Overall, participants were faster and more accurate during memory than neutral cue trials. The auditory contextual memory effects on performance coincided with three temporally and spatially distinct neural modulations, which encompassed changes in the amplitude of event-related potential as well as changes in theta, alpha, beta and gamma power. Brain electrical source analyses revealed greater source activity in memory than neutral cue trials in the right superior temporal gyrus and left parietal cortex. Conversely, neutral trials were associated with greater source activity than memory cue trials in the left posterior medial temporal lobe. Target detection was associated with increased negativity (N2), and a late positive (P3b) wave at frontal and parietal sites, respectively. The effect of auditory contextual memory on brain activity preceding target onset showed little lateralization. Together, these results are consistent with contextual memory facilitating retrieval of target-context associations and deployment and management of auditory attentional resources to when the target occurred. The results also suggest that the auditory cortices, parietal cortex, and medial temporal lobe may be parts of a neural network enabling memory-guided attention during auditory scene analysis.
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- Jacqueline Zimmermann
- Rotman Research Institute, Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute, Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Brückmann M, Garcia MV. Mismatch Negativity Elicited by Verbal and Nonverbal Stimuli: Comparison with Potential N1. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2020; 24:e154-e159. [PMID: 32256835 PMCID: PMC6828569 DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1696701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Introduction Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a long latency auditory evoked potential, represented by a negative wave, generated after the potential N1 and visualized in a resulting wave. Objective To identify the time of occurrence of MMN after N1, elicited with verbal and nonverbal stimuli. Methods Ninety individuals aged between 18 and 56 years old participated in the study, 39 of whom were male and 51 female, with normal auditory thresholds, at least 8 years of schooling, and who did not present auditory processing complaints. All of them underwent audiologic anamnesis, visual inspection of external auditory meatus, pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, acoustic immittance measures and the dichotic sentence identification test as a screening for alterations in auditory processing, a requirement to participate in the sample. The MMN was applied with two different stimuli, with these being da/ta (verbal) and 750 Hz and 1,000 Hz (nonverbal). Results There was a statistically significant difference between the latency values of the N1 potential and the MMN with the two stimuli, as well as between the MMN with verbal and nonverbal stimuli, and the latency of the MMN elicited with da/ta being greater than that elicited with 750 Hz and 1,000 Hz, which facilitated its visualization. Conclusion The time of occurrence of MMN after the N1 elicited with verbal stimuli was 100.4 ms and with nonverbal stimuli 85.5 ms. Thus, the marking of the MMN with verbal stimuli proved to be more distant from N1 compared with the nonverbal stimuli.
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- Mirtes Brückmann
- Graduate Program in Disorders of Human Communication, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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Kung SJ, Wu DH, Hsu CH, Hsieh IH. A Minimum Temporal Window for Direction Detection of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps: A Magnetoencephalography Study. Front Psychol 2020; 11:389. [PMID: 32218758 PMCID: PMC7078663 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The ability to rapidly encode the direction of frequency contour contained in frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps is essential for speech processing, music appreciation, and conspecific communications. Psychophysical evidence points to a common temporal window threshold for human listeners in processing rapid changes in frequency glides. No neural evidence has been provided for the existence of a cortical temporal window threshold underlying the encoding of rapid transitions in frequency glides. The present magnetoencephalography study used the cortical mismatch negativity activity (MMNm) to investigate the minimum temporal window required for detecting different magnitudes of directional changes in frequency-modulated sweeps. A deviant oddball paradigm was used in which directional upward or downward frequency sweep serves as the standard and the same type of sweep with the opposite direction serves as its deviant. Stimuli consisted of unidirectional linear frequency-sweep complexes that swept across speech-relevant frequency bands in durations of 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 ms (with corresponding rates of 50, 25, 12.5, 6.2, 3.1, 1.5 oct/s). The data revealed significant magnetic mismatch field responses across all sweep durations, with slower-rate sweeps eliciting larger MMNm responses. A greater temporally related enhancement in MMNm response was obtained for rising but not falling frequency sweep contours. A hemispheric asymmetry in the MMNm response pattern was observed corresponding to the directionality of frequency sweeps. Contrary to psychophysical findings, we report a temporal window as short as 10 ms sufficient to elicit a robust MMNm response to a directional change in speech-relevant frequency contours. The results suggest that auditory cortex requires extremely brief temporal window to implicitly differentiate a dynamic change in frequency of linguistically relevant pitch contours. That the brain is extremely sensitive to fine spectral changes contained in speech-relevant glides provides cortical evidence for the ecological importance of FM sweeps in speech processing.
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- Shu-Jen Kung
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.,Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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Central auditory processing in adults with chronic stroke without hearing loss: A magnetoencephalography study. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 131:1102-1118. [PMID: 32200092 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Revised: 01/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Stroke lesions in non-auditory areas may affect higher-order central auditory processing. We sought to characterize auditory functions in chronic stroke survivors with unilateral arm/hand impairment using auditory evoked responses (AERs) with lesion and perception metrics. METHODS The AERs in 29 stroke survivors and 14 controls were recorded with single tones, active and passive frequency-oddballs, and a dual-oddball with pitch-contour and time-interval deviants. Performance in speech-in-noise, mistuning detection, and moving-sound detection was assessed. Relationships between AERs, behaviour, and lesion overlap with functional networks, were examined. RESULTS Despite their normal hearing, eight patients showed unilateral AER in the hemisphere ipsilateral to the affected hand with reduced amplitude compared to those with bilateral AERs. Both groups showed increasing attenuation of later components. Hemispheric asymmetry of AER sources was reduced in bilateral-AER patients. The N1 wave (100 ms latency) and P2 (200 ms) were delayed in individuals with lesions in the basal-ganglia and white-matter, while lesions in the attention network reduced the frequency-MMN (mismatch negativity) responses and increased the pitch-contour P3a response. Patients' impaired speech-in-noise perception was explained by AER measures and frequency-deviant detection performance with multiple regression. CONCLUSION AERs reflect disruption of auditory functions due to damage outside of temporal lobe, and further explain complexity of neural mechanisms underlying higher-order auditory perception. SIGNIFICANCE Stroke survivors without obvious hearing problems may benefit from rehabilitation for central auditory processing.
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Evidence of both brainstem and auditory cortex involvement in categorical perception for Chinese lexical tones. Neuroreport 2020; 31:359-364. [DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Jafari Z, Kolb BE, Mohajerani MH. Auditory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2020; 35:537-550. [PMID: 32052894 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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PD is a progressive and complex neurological disorder with heterogeneous symptomatology. PD is characterized by classical motor features of parkinsonism and nonmotor symptoms and involves extensive regions of the nervous system, various neurotransmitters, and protein aggregates. Extensive evidence supports auditory dysfunction as an additional nonmotor feature of PD. Studies indicate a broad range of auditory impairments in PD, from the peripheral hearing system to the auditory brainstem and cortical areas. For instance, research demonstrates a higher occurrence of hearing loss in early-onset PD and evidence of abnormal auditory evoked potentials, event-related potentials, and habituation to novel stimuli. Electrophysiological data, such as auditory P3a, also is suggested as a sensitive measure of illness duration and severity. Improvement in auditory responses following dopaminergic therapies also indicates the presence of similar neurotransmitters (i.e., glutamate and dopamine) in the auditory system and basal ganglia. Nonetheless, hearing impairments in PD have received little attention in clinical practice so far. This review summarizes evidence of peripheral and central auditory impairments in PD and provides conclusions and directions for future empirical and clinical research. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Zahra Jafari
- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.,Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Science (IUMS), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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Hsu YF, Xu W, Parviainen T, Hämäläinen JA. Context-dependent minimisation of prediction errors involves temporal-frontal activation. Neuroimage 2020; 207:116355. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Evoked potentials provide valuable insight into brain processes that are integral to our ability to interact effectively and efficiently in the world. The mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the evoked potential has proven highly informative on the ways in which sensitivity to regularity contributes to perception and cognition. This review offers a compendium of research on MMN with a view to scaffolding an appreciation for its use as a tool to explore the way regularities contribute to predictions about the sensory environment over many timescales. In compiling this work, interest in MMN as an index of sensory encoding and memory are addressed, as well as attention. Perspectives on the possible underlying computational processes are reviewed as well as recent observations that invite consideration of how MMN relates to how we learn, what we learn, and why.
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- Kaitlin Fitzgerald
- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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Calcus A, Tuomainen O, Campos A, Rosen S, Halliday LF. Functional brain alterations following mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss in children. eLife 2019; 8:e46965. [PMID: 31570117 PMCID: PMC6828531 DOI: 10.7554/elife.46965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Auditory deprivation in the form of deafness during development leads to lasting changes in central auditory system function. However, less is known about the effects of mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss (MMHL) during development. Here, we used a longitudinal design to examine late auditory evoked responses and mismatch responses to nonspeech and speech sounds for children with MMHL. At Time 1, younger children with MMHL (8-12 years; n = 23) showed age-appropriate mismatch negativities (MMNs) to sounds, but older children (12-16 years; n = 23) did not. Six years later, we re-tested a subset of the younger (now older) children with MMHL (n = 13). Children who had shown significant MMNs at Time 1 showed MMNs that were reduced and, for nonspeech, absent at Time 2. Our findings demonstrate that even a mild-to-moderate hearing loss during early-to-mid childhood can lead to changes in the neural processing of sounds in late childhood/adolescence.
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- Axelle Calcus
- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d’Etudes CognitivesEcole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRSParisFrance
- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic SciencesUniversity College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic SciencesUniversity College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic SciencesUniversity College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic SciencesUniversity College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic SciencesUniversity College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUnited Kingdom
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Gu F, Wong L, Hu A, Zhang X, Tong X. A lateral inhibition mechanism explains the dissociation between mismatch negativity and behavioral pitch discrimination. Brain Res 2019; 1720:146308. [PMID: 31247205 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2018] [Revised: 04/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Although mismatch negativity (MMN), a change-specific component of auditory event-related potential, is considered to be an index of sound discrimination accuracy, the amplitude of the MMN responses elicited by pitch height deviations in musicians and tone language speakers with superior pitch discrimination is usually not enhanced compared to that elicited in individuals with inferior pitch discrimination. We hypothesized that superior pitch discrimination is accompanied by enhanced lateral inhibition, a critical neural mechanism that sharpens the tuning curves of the auditory neurons in the tonotopy. Forty Mandarin-speaking healthy adults completed an auditory EEG experiment in which MMN was elicited by pitch height deviations in both pure and harmonic tones. Their behavioral pitch discrimination was indexed by the difference limens measured using pure and harmonic tones. Behavioral pitch discrimination correlated significantly with the MMN elicited by pure tones, but not by harmonic tones; this could be due to lateral inhibition strongly influencing the MMN elicited by harmonic tones but having less effect on the MMN elicited by pure tones. As lateral inhibition is a neural mechanism for attenuating the amplitude of MMN, our results support the notion that an enhanced lateral inhibition mechanism underlies superior pitch discrimination.
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- Feng Gu
- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Key Lab of China's National Linguistic Information Technology, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Diseases, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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Kinukawa T, Takeuchi N, Sugiyama S, Nishihara M, Nishiwaki K, Inui K. Properties of echoic memory revealed by auditory-evoked magnetic fields. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12260. [PMID: 31439871 PMCID: PMC6706430 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48796-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We used auditory-evoked magnetic fields to investigate the properties of echoic memory. The sound stimulus was a repeated 1-ms click at 100 Hz for 500 ms, presented every 800 ms. The phase of the sound was shifted by inserting an interaural time delay of 0.49 ms to each side. Therefore, there were two sounds, lateralized to the left and right. According to the preceding sound, each sound was labeled as D (preceded by a different sound) or S (by the same sound). The D sounds were further grouped into 1D, 2D, and 3D, according to the number of preceding different sounds. The S sounds were similarly grouped to 1S and 2S. The results showed that the preceding event significantly affected the amplitude of the cortical response; although there was no difference between 1S and 2S, the amplitudes for D sounds were greater than those for S sounds. Most importantly, there was a significant amplitude difference between 1S and 1D. These results suggested that sensory memory was formed by a single sound, and was immediately replaced by new information. The constantly-updating nature of sensory memory is considered to enable it to act as a real-time monitor for new information.
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- Tomoaki Kinukawa
- Department of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.
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- Neuropsychiatric Department, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, 480-1195, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, , Gifu University, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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- Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, 480-1195, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
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- Department of Functioning and Disability, Institute for Developmental Research, Kasugai, 480-0392, Japan.,Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan
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Mugruza-Vassallo C, Potter D. Context Dependence Signature, Stimulus Properties and Stimulus Probability as Predictors of ERP Amplitude Variability. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:39. [PMID: 30863293 PMCID: PMC6399205 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Typically, in an oddball paradigm with two experimental conditions, the longer the time between novels the greater P3a amplitude. Here the research question is: Does an oddball paradigm maintain the greater P3a amplitude under several experimental conditions? An EEG study was carried out with an oddball number parity decision task having four conditions in control and schizophrenic participants. Contrary to previous findings (Gonsalvez and Polich, 2002; Polich, 2007) in control participants, non-correlation was found between the time of a novel (N) stimulus condition to the next novel condition and P3a amplitude. Moreover, with an innovative method for stimulus properties extraction features and EEG analysis, single trial across-subject averaging of participants' data revealed significant correlations (r > 0.3) of stimulus properties (such as probability, frequency, amplitude, and duration) on P300, and even r > 0.5 was found when N was an environmental sound in schizophrenic patients. Therefore, stimulus properties are strong markers of some of the features in the P3a wave. Finally, a context analysis of ERP waves across electrodes revealed a consistent modulation in novel appearance for MisMatch Negativity in schizophrenia. A supplementary analysis running linear modeling (LIMO) in EEG was also provided (see Supplementary Material). Therefore, in a multiple condition task: stimulus properties and their temporal properties are strong markers of some of the features in the P300 wave. An interpretation was done based on differences between controls and schizophrenics relate to differences in the operation of implicit memory for stimulus properties and stronger correlations were observed within groups related contextual and episodic processes.
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- Carlos Mugruza-Vassallo
- Grupo de Investigación de Computación y Neurociencia Cognitiva, Facultad de Ingeniería y Gestión, Universidad Nacional Tecnológica de Lima Sur – UNTELS, Lima, Perú
- Neuroscience and Development Group, Arts and Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Development Group, Arts and Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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Malmierca MS, Niño-Aguillón BE, Nieto-Diego J, Porteros Á, Pérez-González D, Escera C. Pattern-sensitive neurons reveal encoding of complex auditory regularities in the rat inferior colliculus. Neuroimage 2019; 184:889-900. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Revised: 09/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Noda K, Kitahara T, Doi K. Sound Change Integration Error: An Explanatory Model of Tinnitus. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:831. [PMID: 30538615 PMCID: PMC6277469 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A growing body of research is focused on identifying and understanding the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie tinnitus. Unfortunately, however, most current models cannot adequately explain the majority of tinnitus features. For instance, although tinnitus generally appears within minutes after entering a silent environment, most models postulate that tinnitus emerges over a much larger timescale (days). Similarly, there is a limited understanding of how the severity of tinnitus can differ in patients with a similar degree of hearing loss. To address this critical knowledge gap, we have formulated a novel explanatory model of tinnitus, the perception-update (PU) model, which rests on a theory of information processing and can explain several key characteristics of tinnitus onset. The PU model posits that the brain continuously updates the information received from the inner ear by comparing it to the received information immediately before. That is, the auditory system processes the relative change in sensory input, as opposed to the absolute value of the auditory input. This is analogous to the functioning of data compression technology used for music and images called differential pulse code modulation (differential PCM). The PU model proposes that the inner ear transmits sound change to the auditory cortex via an auditory N1 response, an event-related potential component that constitutes is a prime signaler of auditory input change. In cases of hearing impairment, the PU model posits that the auditory system finds itself in a state of uncertainty where perception has to be predicted based on previous stimulation parameters, which can lead to the emergence of tinnitus.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osakasayama, Japan
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Fitzgerald K, Todd J. Hierarchical timescales of statistical learning revealed by mismatch negativity to auditory pattern deviations. Neuropsychologia 2018; 120:25-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 09/20/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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