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Criel Y, Depuydt E, Miatton M, Santens P, van Mierlo P, De Letter M. Cortical Generators and Connections Underlying Phoneme Perception: A Mismatch Negativity and P300 Investigation. Brain Topogr 2024:10.1007/s10548-024-01065-z. [PMID: 38958833 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-024-01065-z] [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: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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The cortical generators of the pure tone MMN and P300 have been thoroughly studied. Their nature and interaction with respect to phoneme perception, however, is poorly understood. Accordingly, the cortical sources and functional connections that underlie the MMN and P300 in relation to passive and active speech sound perception were identified. An inattentive and attentive phonemic oddball paradigm, eliciting a MMN and P300 respectively, were administered in 60 healthy adults during simultaneous high-density EEG recording. For both the MMN and P300, eLORETA source reconstruction was performed. The maximal cross-correlation was calculated between ROI-pairs to investigate inter-regional functional connectivity specific to passive and active deviant processing. MMN activation clusters were identified in the temporal (insula, superior temporal gyrus and temporal pole), frontal (rostral middle frontal and pars opercularis) and parietal (postcentral and supramarginal gyrus) cortex. Passive discrimination of deviant phonemes was aided by a network connecting right temporoparietal cortices to left frontal areas. For the P300, clusters with significantly higher activity were found in the frontal (caudal middle frontal and precentral), parietal (precuneus) and cingulate (posterior and isthmus) cortex. Significant intra- and interhemispheric connections between parietal, cingulate and occipital regions constituted the network governing active phonemic target detection. A predominantly bilateral network was found to underly both the MMN and P300. While passive phoneme discrimination is aided by a fronto-temporo-parietal network, active categorization calls on a network entailing fronto-parieto-cingulate cortices. Neural processing of phonemic contrasts, as reflected by the MMN and P300, does not appear to show pronounced lateralization to the language-dominant hemisphere.
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- Yana Criel
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Medical Imaging and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical Imaging and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Huang YT, Wu CT, Koike S, Chao ZC. Dissecting Mismatch Negativity: Early and Late Subcomponents for Detecting Deviants in Local and Global Sequence Regularities. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0050-24.2024. [PMID: 38702187 PMCID: PMC11103647 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0050-24.2024] [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: 02/04/2024] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) is commonly recognized as a neural signal of prediction error evoked by deviants from the expected patterns of sensory input. Studies show that MMN diminishes when sequence patterns become more predictable over a longer timescale. This implies that MMN is composed of multiple subcomponents, each responding to different levels of temporal regularities. To probe the hypothesized subcomponents in MMN, we record human electroencephalography during an auditory local-global oddball paradigm where the tone-to-tone transition probability (local regularity) and the overall sequence probability (global regularity) are manipulated to control temporal predictabilities at two hierarchical levels. We find that the size of MMN is correlated with both probabilities and the spatiotemporal structure of MMN can be decomposed into two distinct subcomponents. Both subcomponents appear as negative waveforms, with one peaking early in the central-frontal area and the other late in a more frontal area. With a quantitative predictive coding model, we map the early and late subcomponents to the prediction errors that are tied to local and global regularities, respectively. Our study highlights the hierarchical complexity of MMN and offers an experimental and analytical platform for developing a multitiered neural marker applicable in clinical settings.
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- Yiyuan Teresa Huang
- International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan
- Department of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan
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- International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Department of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
- University of Tokyo Institute for Diversity & Adaptation of Human Mind (UTIDAHM), Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Li X, Wei W, Wang Q, Deng W, Li M, Ma X, Zeng J, Zhao L, Guo W, Hall MH, Li T. Identify Potential Causal Relationships Between Cortical Thickness, Mismatch Negativity, Neurocognition, and Psychosocial Functioning in Drug-Naïve First-Episode Psychosis Patients. Schizophr Bull 2024:sbae026. [PMID: 38635296 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbae026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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BACKGROUND Cortical thickness (CT) alterations, mismatch negativity (MMN) reductions, and cognitive deficits are robust findings in first-episode psychosis (FEP). However, most studies focused on medicated patients, leaving gaps in our understanding of the interrelationships between CT, MMN, neurocognition, and psychosocial functioning in unmedicated FEP. This study aimed to employ multiple mediation analysis to investigate potential pathways among these variables in unmedicated drug-naïve FEP. METHODS We enrolled 28 drug-naïve FEP and 34 age and sex-matched healthy controls. Clinical symptoms, neurocognition, psychosocial functioning, auditory duration MMN, and T1 structural magnetic resonance imaging data were collected. We measured CT in the superior temporal gyrus (STG), a primary MMN-generating region. RESULTS We found a significant negative correlation between MMN amplitude and bilateral CT of STG (CT_STG) in FEP (left: r = -.709, P < .001; right: r = -.612, P = .008). Multiple mediation models revealed that a thinner left STG cortex affected functioning through both direct (24.66%) and indirect effects (75.34%). In contrast, the effects of the right CT_STG on functioning were mainly mediated through MMN and neurocognitive pathways. CONCLUSIONS Bilateral CT_STG showed significant association with MMN, and MMN plays a mediating role between CT and cognition. Both MMN alone and its interaction with cognition mediated the effects of structural alterations on psychosocial function. The decline in overall function in FEP may stem from decreased CT_STG, leading to subsequent MMN deficits and neurocognitive dysfunction. These findings underline the crucial role of MMN in elucidating how subtle structural alterations can impact neurocognition and psychosocial function in FEP.
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- Xiaojing Li
- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou 311100, China
- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-Machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
- NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou 311100, China
- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-Machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
- NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou 311100, China
- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-Machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
- NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou 311100, China
- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-Machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
- NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Affiliated Mental Health Center and Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Nanhu Brain-Computer Interface Institute, Hangzhou 311100, China
- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-Machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China
- NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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López-Caballero F, Curtis M, Coffman BA, Salisbury DF. Is source-resolved magnetoencephalographic mismatch negativity a viable biomarker for early psychosis? Eur J Neurosci 2024; 59:1889-1906. [PMID: 37537883 PMCID: PMC10837325 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an auditory event-related response reflecting the pre-attentive detection of novel stimuli and is a biomarker of cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia (SZ). MMN to pitch (pMMN) and to duration (dMMN) deviant stimuli are impaired in chronic SZ, but it is less clear if MMN is reduced in first-episode SZ, with inconsistent findings in scalp-level EEG studies. Here, we investigated the neural generators of pMMN and dMMN with MEG recordings in 26 first-episode schizophrenia spectrum (FEsz) and 26 matched healthy controls (C). We projected MEG inverse solutions into precise functionally meaningful auditory cortex areas. MEG-derived MMN sources were in bilateral primary auditory cortex (A1) and belt areas. In A1, pMMN FEsz reduction showed a trend towards statistical significance (F(1,50) = 3.31; p = .07), and dMMN was reduced in FEsz (F(1,50) = 4.11; p = .04). Hypothesis-driven comparisons at each hemisphere revealed dMMN reduction in FEsz occurred in the left (t(56) = 2.23; p = .03; d = .61) but not right (t(56) = 1.02; p = .31; d = .28) hemisphere, with a moderate effect size. The added precision of MEG source solution with high-resolution MRI and parcellation of A1 may be requisite to detect the emerging pathophysiology and indicates a critical role for left hemisphere pathology at psychosis onset. However, the moderate effect size in left A1, albeit larger than reported in scalp MMN meta-analyses, casts doubt on the clinical utility of MMN for differential diagnosis, as a majority of patients will overlap with the healthy individual's distribution.
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- Fran López-Caballero
- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mao X, Zhang Z, Yang Y, Chen Y, Wang Y, Wang W. Characteristics of different Mandarin pronunciation element perception: evidence based on a multifeature paradigm for recording MMN and P3a components of phonemic changes in speech sounds. Front Neurosci 2024; 17:1277129. [PMID: 38264493 PMCID: PMC10804857 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1277129] [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: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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Background As a tonal language, Mandarin Chinese has the following pronunciation elements for each syllable: the vowel, consonant, tone, duration, and intensity. Revealing the characteristics of auditory-related cortical processing of these different pronunciation elements is interesting. Methods A Mandarin pronunciation multifeature paradigm was designed, during which a standard stimulus and five different phonemic deviant stimuli were presented. The electroencephalogram (EEG) data were recorded with 256-electrode high-density EEG equipment. Time-domain and source localization analyses were conducted to demonstrate waveform characteristics and locate the sources of the cortical processing of mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a components following different stimuli. Results Vowel and consonant differences elicited distinct MMN and P3a components, but tone and duration differences did not. Intensity differences elicited distinct MMN components but not P3a components. For MMN and P3a components, the activated cortical areas were mainly in the frontal-temporal lobe. However, the regions and intensities of the cortical activation were significantly different among the components for the various deviant stimuli. The activated cortical areas of the MMN and P3a components elicited by vowels and consonants seemed to be larger and show more intense activation. Conclusion The auditory processing centers use different auditory-related cognitive resources when processing different Mandarin pronunciation elements. Vowels and consonants carry more information for speech comprehension; moreover, more neurons in the cortex may be involved in the recognition and cognitive processing of these elements.
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- Xiang Mao
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China
- Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China
- Key Medical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China
- Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China
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Dheerendra P, Grent-'t-Jong T, Gajwani R, Gross J, Gumley AI, Krishnadas R, Lawrie SM, Schwannauer M, Schultze-Lutter F, Uhlhaas PJ. Intact Mismatch Negativity Responses in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis and First-Episode Psychosis: Evidence From Source-Reconstructed Event-Related Fields and Time-Frequency Data. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2024; 9:121-131. [PMID: 37778724 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.09.006] [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: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study examined whether mismatch negativity (MMN) responses are impaired in participants at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P) and patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) and whether MMN deficits predict clinical outcomes in CHR-Ps. METHODS Magnetoencephalography data were collected during a duration-deviant MMN paradigm for a group of 116 CHR-P participants, 33 FEP patients (15 antipsychotic-naïve), clinical high risk negative group (n = 38) with substance abuse and affective disorder, and 49 healthy control participants. Analysis of group differences of source-reconstructed event-related fields as well as time-frequency and intertrial phase coherence focused on the bilateral Heschl's gyri and bilateral superior temporal gyri. RESULTS Significant magnetic MMN responses were found across participants in the bilateral Heschl's gyri and bilateral superior temporal gyri. However, MMN amplitude as well as time-frequency and intertrial phase coherence responses were intact in CHR-P participants and FEP patients compared with healthy control participants. Furthermore, MMN deficits were not related to persistent attenuated psychotic symptoms or transitions to psychosis in CHR-P participants. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that magnetic MMN responses in magnetoencephalography data are not impaired in early-stage psychosis and may not predict clinical outcomes in CHR-P participants.
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- Pradeep Dheerendra
- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Muenster, Germany
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia; University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
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Grundei M, Schmidt TT, Blankenburg F. A multimodal cortical network of sensory expectation violation revealed by fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:5871-5891. [PMID: 37721377 PMCID: PMC10619418 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023] Open
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The brain is subjected to multi-modal sensory information in an environment governed by statistical dependencies. Mismatch responses (MMRs), classically recorded with EEG, have provided valuable insights into the brain's processing of regularities and the generation of corresponding sensory predictions. Only few studies allow for comparisons of MMRs across multiple modalities in a simultaneous sensory stream and their corresponding cross-modal context sensitivity remains unknown. Here, we used a tri-modal version of the roving stimulus paradigm in fMRI to elicit MMRs in the auditory, somatosensory and visual modality. Participants (N = 29) were simultaneously presented with sequences of low and high intensity stimuli in each of the three senses while actively observing the tri-modal input stream and occasionally reporting the intensity of the previous stimulus in a prompted modality. The sequences were based on a probabilistic model, defining transition probabilities such that, for each modality, stimuli were more likely to repeat (p = .825) than change (p = .175) and stimulus intensities were equiprobable (p = .5). Moreover, each transition was conditional on the configuration of the other two modalities comprising global (cross-modal) predictive properties of the sequences. We identified a shared mismatch network of modality general inferior frontal and temporo-parietal areas as well as sensory areas, where the connectivity (psychophysiological interaction) between these regions was modulated during mismatch processing. Further, we found deviant responses within the network to be modulated by local stimulus repetition, which suggests highly comparable processing of expectation violation across modalities. Moreover, hierarchically higher regions of the mismatch network in the temporo-parietal area around the intraparietal sulcus were identified to signal cross-modal expectation violation. With the consistency of MMRs across audition, somatosensation and vision, our study provides insights into a shared cortical network of uni- and multi-modal expectation violation in response to sequence regularities.
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- Miro Grundei
- Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging UnitFreie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
- Berlin School of Mind and BrainHumboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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- Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging UnitFreie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
- Berlin School of Mind and BrainHumboldt Universität zu BerlinBerlinGermany
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Poublan-Couzardot A, Lecaignard F, Fucci E, Davidson RJ, Mattout J, Lutz A, Abdoun O. Time-resolved dynamic computational modeling of human EEG recordings reveals gradients of generative mechanisms for the MMN response. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010557. [PMID: 38091350 PMCID: PMC10752554 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Despite attempts to unify the different theoretical accounts of the mismatch negativity (MMN), there is still an ongoing debate on the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying this complex brain response. On one hand, neuronal adaptation to recurrent stimuli is able to explain many of the observed properties of the MMN, such as its sensitivity to controlled experimental parameters. On the other hand, several modeling studies reported evidence in favor of Bayesian learning models for explaining the trial-to-trial dynamics of the human MMN. However, direct comparisons of these two main hypotheses are scarce, and previous modeling studies suffered from methodological limitations. Based on reports indicating spatial and temporal dissociation of physiological mechanisms within the timecourse of mismatch responses in animals, we hypothesized that different computational models would best fit different temporal phases of the human MMN. Using electroencephalographic data from two independent studies of a simple auditory oddball task (n = 82), we compared adaptation and Bayesian learning models' ability to explain the sequential dynamics of auditory deviance detection in a time-resolved fashion. We first ran simulations to evaluate the capacity of our design to dissociate the tested models and found that they were sufficiently distinguishable above a certain level of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In subjects with a sufficient SNR, our time-resolved approach revealed a temporal dissociation between the two model families, with high evidence for adaptation during the early MMN window (from 90 to 150-190 ms post-stimulus depending on the dataset) and for Bayesian learning later in time (170-180 ms or 200-220ms). In addition, Bayesian model averaging of fixed-parameter models within the adaptation family revealed a gradient of adaptation rates, resembling the anatomical gradient in the auditory cortical hierarchy reported in animal studies.
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- Arnaud Poublan-Couzardot
- Cente de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), CNRS UMRS5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- Cente de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), CNRS UMRS5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- 2 Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), Sweden
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- Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Cente de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), CNRS UMRS5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- Cente de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), CNRS UMRS5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- Cente de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), CNRS UMRS5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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Yaman H, Yılmaz O, Hanoğlu L, Bayazıt Y. fNIRS-based evaluation of the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection central auditory processing. Brain Behav 2023; 13:e3303. [PMID: 37908040 PMCID: PMC10726898 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.3303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Coronavirus disease-2019 due to SARS-CoV-2 infection has been associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric illnesses as well as auditory system problems. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the central auditory system by assessing the hemodynamic activation changes using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). METHODS Three participants who had SARS-CoV-2 infection (study group) and four participants who had no SARS-CoV-2 infection (control group) were included in the study. During the auditory oddball task in which two different frequencies of tonal stimulation were presented at 80 dB HL, the participants were asked to pay attention to the rare tonal stimulation and mentally count these target stimuli throughout the task. During this task, oxygenated hemodynamic response functions were evaluated with fNIRS. RESULTS Significantly increased oxygenated hemodynamic responses were observed in both groups during the task (p < .05), which was significantly higher in the study group (p < .05). Significantly more HbO activation was observed in the vmPFC, superior temporal gyrus, and medial temporal gyrus in the study group compared to controls (p < .05). Significantly higher hemodynamic activation was observed in the right hemisphere in both groups, which was significantly higher in the study group (p < .05). CONCLUSION SARS-CoV-2 infections may impact on central auditory processing or auditory attention due to changes in oxyhemoglobin levels in the frontal and temporal brain regions. It seems that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with an additional load on neural activity, and difficulties in focusing in auditory attention, following speech and hearing in noise as well as increased effort to perceive auditory cues.
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- Handan Yaman
- Department of AudiologyIstanbul Medipol University Mega HospitalIstanbulTurkiye
- Functional Imaging and Cognitive‐Affective Neuroscience Lab (fINCAN), Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA)Istanbul Medipol UniversityIstanbulTurkiye
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- Department of AudiologyIstanbul Medipol University Mega HospitalIstanbulTurkiye
- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health SciencesIstanbul Medipol UniversityIstanbulTurkiye
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- Functional Imaging and Cognitive‐Affective Neuroscience Lab (fINCAN), Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA)Istanbul Medipol UniversityIstanbulTurkiye
- Department of NeurologyIstanbul Medipol University, Medipol Mega HospitalIstanbulTurkiye
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- Department of ENT, Gaziosmanpaşa HospitalIstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl UniversityIstanbulTurkiye
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Sauer A, Grent-'t-Jong T, Zeev-Wolf M, Singer W, Goldstein A, Uhlhaas PJ. Spectral and phase-coherence correlates of impaired auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) in schizophrenia: A MEG study. Schizophr Res 2023; 261:60-71. [PMID: 37708723 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.08.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reduced auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) is robustly impaired in schizophrenia. However, mechanisms underlying dysfunctional MMN generation remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to examine the role of evoked spectral power and phase-coherence towards deviance detection and its impairments in schizophrenia. METHODS Magnetoencephalography data was collected in 16 male schizophrenia patients and 16 male control participants during an auditory MMN paradigm. Analyses of event-related fields (ERF), spectral power and inter-trial phase-coherence (ITPC) focused on Heschl's gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, inferior/medial frontal gyrus and thalamus. RESULTS MMNm ERF amplitudes were reduced in patients in temporal, frontal and subcortical regions, accompanied by decreased theta-band responses, as well as by a diminished gamma-band response in auditory cortex. At theta/alpha frequencies, ITPC to deviant tones was reduced in patients in frontal cortex and thalamus. Patients were also characterized by aberrant responses to standard tones as indexed by reduced theta-/alpha-band power and ITPC in temporal and frontal regions. Moreover, stimulus-specific adaptation was decreased at theta/alpha frequencies in left temporal regions, which correlated with reduced MMNm spectral power and ERF amplitude. Finally, phase-reset of alpha-oscillations after deviant tones in left thalamus was impaired, which correlated with impaired MMNm generation in auditory cortex. Importantly, both non-rhythmic and rhythmic components of spectral activity contributed to the MMNm response. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that deficits in theta-/alpha- and gamma-band activity in cortical and subcortical regions as well as impaired spectral responses to standard sounds could constitute potential mechanisms for dysfunctional MMN generation in schizophrenia, providing a novel perspective towards MMN deficits in the disorder.
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- Andreas Sauer
- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max-von-Laue-Straße 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, 58 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Department of Education and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel; Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max-von-Laue-Straße 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Ruth-Moufang-Straße 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburgerplatz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, 58 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Wu L, Mei S, Yu S, Han S, Zhang YQ. Shank3 mutations enhance early neural responses to deviant tones in dogs. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:10546-10557. [PMID: 37585733 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023] Open
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Both enhanced discrimination of low-level features of auditory stimuli and mutations of SHANK3 (a gene that encodes a synaptic scaffolding protein) have been identified in autism spectrum disorder patients. However, experimental evidence regarding whether SHANK3 mutations lead to enhanced neural processing of low-level features of auditory stimuli is lacking. The present study investigated this possibility by examining effects of Shank3 mutations on early neural processing of pitch (tone frequency) in dogs. We recorded electrocorticograms from wild-type and Shank3 mutant dogs using an oddball paradigm in which deviant tones of different frequencies or probabilities were presented along with other tones in a repetitive stream (standards). We found that, relative to wild-type dogs, Shank3 mutant dogs exhibited larger amplitudes of early neural responses to deviant tones and greater sensitivity to variations of deviant frequencies within 100 ms after tone onsets. In addition, the enhanced early neural responses to deviant tones in Shank3 mutant dogs were observed independently of the probability of deviant tones. Our findings highlight an essential functional role of Shank3 in modulations of early neural detection of novel sounds and offer new insights into the genetic basis of the atypical auditory information processing in autism patients.
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- Liang Wu
- State Key Laboratory for Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Brainnetome Center and State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Hsu YF, Tu CA, Bekinschtein TA, Hämäläinen JA. Longitudinal Evidence for Attenuated Local-Global Deviance Detection as a Precursor of Working Memory Decline. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0156-23.2023. [PMID: 37500495 PMCID: PMC10431235 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0156-23.2023] [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: 05/13/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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From the perspective of predictive coding, normal aging is accompanied by decreased weighting of sensory inputs and increased reliance on predictions, resulting in the attenuation of prediction errors in older age. Recent electroencephalography (EEG) research further revealed that the age-related shift from sensorium to predictions is hierarchy-selective, as older brains show little reduction in lower-level but significant suppression in higher-level prediction errors. Moreover, the disrupted propagation of prediction errors from the lower-level to the higher-level seems to be linked to deficient maintenance of information in working memory. However, it is unclear whether the hierarchical predictive processing continues to decline with advancing age as working memory. Here, we longitudinally followed a sample of 78 participants from three age groups (including seniors, adults, and adolescents) over three years' time. Seniors exhibited largely preserved local processing [consisting of comparable mismatch negativity (MMN), delayed P3a, and comparable reorienting negativity (RON)] but significantly compromised global processing (consisting of suppressed frontocentral negativity and suppressed P3b) in the auditory local-global paradigm. These electrophysiological responses did not change with the passing of time, unlike working memory which deteriorated with advancing age. Correlation analysis further showed that these electrophysiological responses signaling prediction errors are indicative of concurrent working memory. Moreover, there was a correlation between earlier predictive processing and later working memory but not between earlier working memory and later predictive processing. The temporal asymmetry suggested that the hierarchy-selective attenuation of prediction errors is likely a precursor of working memory decline.
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- Yi-Fang Hsu
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
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- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106308, Taiwan
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
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Aeberli T, Müller M, Theodoridou A, Hagenmuller F, Seifritz E, Walitza S, Rössler W, Kawohl W, Heekeren K. Mismatch negativity generation in subjects at risk for psychosis: source analysis is more sensitive than surface electrodes in risk prediction. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1130809. [PMID: 37539328 PMCID: PMC10394234 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1130809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Deficits of mismatch negativity (MMN) in patients with schizophrenia have been demonstrated many times and there is growing evidence that alterations of MMN already exist in individuals at risk for psychosis. The present study examines differences in MMN between subjects fulfilling ultra-high risk (UHR) or only basic symptoms criteria and it addresses the question, if MMN source analysis can improve prediction of transition to psychosis. Methods The MMN to duration, frequency, and intensity deviants was recorded in 50 healthy controls and 161 individuals at risk for psychosis classified into three subgroups: only basic symptoms (n = 74), only ultra-high risk (n = 13) and persons who fulfill both risk criteria (n = 74). Based on a three-source model of MMN generation, we conducted an MMN source analysis and compared the amplitudes of surface electrodes and sources among the three groups. Results Significant differences in MMN generation among the four groups were revealed at surface electrodes Cz and C4 (p < 0.05) and at the frontal source (p < 0.001) for duration deviant stimuli. The 15 subjects from the risk groups who subsequently developed a manifest psychosis had a significantly lower MMN amplitude at frontal source (p = 0.019) without showing significant differences at surface electrodes. Low activity at frontal MMN source increased the risk of transition to manifest disease by the factor 3.12 in UHR subjects. Conclusion MMN activity differed significantly between subjects presenting only basic symptoms and subjects which additionally meet UHR criteria. The largest differences between groups as well as between individuals with and without transition were observed at the frontal source. The present results suggest that source analysis is more sensitive than surface electrodes in psychosis risk prediction by MMN.
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- Tina Aeberli
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Clienia Schlössli AG, Oetwil am See, Zurich, Switzerland
- University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Zurich Program for Sustainable Development of Mental Health Services (ZInEP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, LVR-Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Hsu YF, Tu CA, Chen Y, Liu HM. The mismatch negativity to abstract relationship of tone pairs is independent of attention. Sci Rep 2023; 13:9839. [PMID: 37330612 PMCID: PMC10276803 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37131-y] [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: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023] Open
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) implicating a comparison process between the deviant and the memory trace of the standard can be elicited by not only changes in physical features but also violations of abstract patterns. It is considered pre-attentive, yet the use of the passive design makes it difficult to exclude the possibility of attention leak. In contrast to how this issue has been well addressed with the MMN to physical changes, much less research directly investigated the attentional effect on the MMN to abstract relationships. Here we conducted an electroencephalography (EEG) experiment to study whether and how the MMN to abstract relationships is modulated by attention. We adapted the oddball paradigm of Kujala et al. by presenting occasional descending tone pairs among frequent ascending tone pairs, while additionally implementing a novel control of attention. Participants' attention was either directed away from the sounds (with an engaging task of visual target detection, so that the sounds were task-irrelevant) or toward the sounds (with a conventional task of auditory deviant detection, so that the sounds were task-relevant). The MMN to abstract relationships appeared regardless of attention, confirming the pre-attentive assumption. The attention-independence of the frontocentral and supratemporal components of the MMN supported the notion that attention is not required to generate the MMN. At the individual level, a relatively equal number of participants showed attention enhancement and attention suppression. It is unlike the attentional modulation on the P3b, which was robustly elicited in the attended condition only. The concurrent collection of these two neurophysiological markers in both unattended and attended conditions might be potentially suitable for testing clinical populations showing heterogeneous deficits in auditory function independent/dependent of attention.
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- Yi-Fang Hsu
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan
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- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan
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- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan
- Center of Teacher Education, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, 242062, Taiwan
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- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan.
- Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 106308, Taiwan.
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Abalo-Rodríguez I, Santos-Mayo A, Moratti S. Pavlovian conditioning-induced hallucinations reduce MMN amplitudes for duration but not frequency deviants. Schizophr Res 2023; 256:63-71. [PMID: 37156071 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.04.017] [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: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an evoked potential that indexes auditory regularity violations. Since the 90's, a reduced amplitude of this brain activity in patients with schizophrenia has been consistently reported. Recently, this alteration has been related to the presence of auditory hallucinations (AHs) rather than the schizophrenia diagnostic per se. However, making this attribution is rather problematic due to the high heterogeneity of symptoms in schizophrenia. In an attempt to isolate the AHs influence on the MMN amplitude from other cofounding variables, we artificially induced AHs in a non-clinical population by Pavlovian conditioning. Before and after conditioning, volunteers (N = 31) participated in an oddball paradigm that elicited an MMN. Two different types of deviants were presented: a frequency and a duration deviant, as the MMN alteration seems to be especially present in schizophrenia with the latter type of deviant. Hence, this pre-post design allowed us to compare whether experiencing conditioning-induced AHs exert any influence on MMN amplitudes. Our results show that duration-deviant related MMN reductions significantly correlate with the number of AHs experienced. Moreover, we found a significant correlation between AHs proneness (measured with the Launay-Slade Hallucination Extended Scale) and the number of AHs experienced during the paradigm. In sum, our study shows that AHs can be conditioned and exert similar effects on MMN modulation in healthy participants as has been reported for patients with schizophrenia. Thus, conditioning paradigms offer the possibility to study the association between hallucinations and MMN reductions without the confounding variables present in schizophrenia patients.
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- Inés Abalo-Rodríguez
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Center of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Center of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Center of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
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Weichenberger M, Bug MU, Brühl R, Ittermann B, Koch C, Kühn S. Air-conducted ultrasound below the hearing threshold elicits functional changes in the cognitive control network. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277727. [PMID: 36512612 PMCID: PMC9747049 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Air-conducted ultrasound (> 17.8 kHz; US) is produced by an increasing number of technical devices in our daily environment. While several studies indicate that exposure to US in public spaces can lead to subjective symptoms such as 'annoyance' or 'difficulties in concentration', the effects of US on brain activity are poorly understood. In the present study, individual hearing thresholds (HT) for sounds in the US frequency spectrum were assessed in 21 normal-hearing participants. The effects of US were then investigated by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). 15 of these participants underwent three resting-state acquisitions, two with a 21.5 kHz tone presented monaurally at 5 dB above (ATC) and 10 dB below (BTC) the HT and one without auditory stimulation (NTC), as well as three runs of an n-back working memory task involving similar stimulus conditions (n-ATC, n-BTC, n-NTC). Comparing data gathered during n-NTC vs. fixation, we found that task performance was associated with the recruitment of regions within the cognitive control network, including prefrontal and parietal areas as well as the cerebellum. Direct contrasts of the two stimulus conditions (n-ATC & n-BTC) vs. n-NTC showed no significant differences in brain activity, irrespective of whether a whole-brain or a region of interest approach with primary auditory cortex as the seed was used. Likewise, no differences were found when the resting-state runs were compared. However, contrast analysis (n-BTC vs. n-ATC) revealed a strong activation in bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG, triangular part) only when US was presented below the HT (p < 0.001, cluster > 30). In addition, IFG activation was also associated with faster reaction times during n-BTC (p = 0.033) as well as with verbal reports obtained after resting-state, i.e., the more unpleasant sound was perceived during BTC vs. ATC, the higher activation in bilateral IFG was and vice versa (p = 0.003). While this study provides no evidence for activation of primary auditory cortex in response to audible US (even though participants heard the sounds), it indicates that US can lead to changes in the cognitive control network and affect cognitive performance only when presented below the HT. Activation of bilateral IFG could reflect an increase in cognitive demand when focusing on task performance in the presence of slightly unpleasant and/or distracting US that may not be fully controllable by attentional mechanisms.
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- Markus Weichenberger
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
- University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic and Policlinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hamburg, Germany
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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] [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
Abstract
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
- Xianming Fu
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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
- *Correspondence: Lin Chen
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Ver Loren van Themaat AH, Oranje B, Larsen KM, Tomasevic L, Korsgaard Johnsen L, Elgaard Thorup AA, Plessen KJ, Siebner HR, Nordentoft M. Mismatch negativity and P3a amplitude in children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder - A Danish register-based EEG study. Schizophr Res 2022; 246:187-194. [PMID: 35797883 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.06.035] [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: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Infrequent deviants in a rapid sequence of sounds elicit a negative cortical potential over the frontocentral midline (mismatch negativity, MMN) followed by a positive deflection (P3a). Both cortical potentials are consistently attenuated in patients with schizophrenia (SZ), and, to a lesser degree, in patients with bipolar disorder (BP). OBJECTIVE Since it is unclear when MMN and P3a deficits arise relative to the emergence of symptoms, we examined whether MMN and P3a alterations are already detectable in children with familial high risk. METHODS Using 128-channel electroencephalography, we recorded auditory MMN and P3a evoked by a deviation in sound duration, frequency, or both in 51 children with familial high-risk for SZ (FHR-SZ), 41 children with familial high-risk for BP (FHR-BP), and 39 population-based children (PBC) at a mean age of 12.10. RESULTS MMN amplitude evoked by a duration deviant was larger in children with FHR-BP compared to PBC and FHR-SZ. P3a amplitude in response to a duration ∗ frequency deviant was larger in children with FHR-BP compared to children with FHR-SZ, but not compared to PBC. MMN- and P3a-peak latency did not differ between groups. CONCLUSIONS At an age of around 12 years, children with FHR-BP display enhanced neural sensitivity to change detection of duration deviants, while FHR-SZ showed a normal response pattern. Longitudinal recordings in high-risk children during adolescence are required to elucidate the temporal trajectories of MMN and P3a responses and how they relate to the emergence of first clinical symptoms in SZ and BP.
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- Anna Hester Ver Loren van Themaat
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark.
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, the Netherlands
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health - CORE, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Aarhus, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Aarhus, Denmark; Service of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health - CORE, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Aarhus, Denmark
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Abramov DM, Loureiro CBP, Abramov AK, Salles TRS, Moreira MEL, Lazarev VV. Mismatch Negativity is associated with affective social behavior in microcephaly. Int J Psychophysiol 2022; 180:10-16. [PMID: 35868544 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.07.004] [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: 02/20/2022] [Revised: 07/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Some children with severe microcephaly related to Zika virus infection show affective social-like behavior, such as smiling and rejection to a stranger's lap. Our objective was to check the association between this behavior and the occurrence of Mismatch Response (MMR) in event-related potentials. Twenty eight microcephalic children, aged 1-3 years, were divided in Affect(+) and Affect(-) groups, according to either the presence or absence of affective social-like behavior, respectively, and underwent the OddBall paradigm with vowels as auditory stimuli. MMR was statistically estimated comparing MMR sample means between both groups. The Affect(+) group significantly differed from the Affect(-) group and, as opposed to the latter, showed MMR as Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in the left occipital, left and right posterior temporal, and (especially) the right and median parietal leads. The relationship observed between MMN and affective social-like behavior suggests that these children may have cognitive mechanisms capable of providing some social interaction, despite their profound neurological dysfunction. MMN diagnostic techniques seem to be promising for the triage of microcephalic subjects regarding cognitive functions and for choosing a strategy for some social adaptation.
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- Dimitri Marques Abramov
- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Clinical Research Unit, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Liang XY, Guo ZH, Wang XD, Guo XT, Sun JW, Wang M, Li HW, Chen L. Event-Related Potential Evidence for Involuntary Consciousness During Implicit Memory Retrieval. Front Behav Neurosci 2022; 16:902175. [PMID: 35832295 PMCID: PMC9272755 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.902175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Classical notion claims that a memory is implicit if has nothing to do with consciousness during the information retrieval from storage, or is otherwise explicit. Here, we demonstrate event-related potential evidence for involuntary consciousness during implicit memory retrieval. We designed a passive oddball paradigm for retrieval of implicit memory in which an auditory stream of Shepard tones with musical pitch interval contrasts were delivered to the subjects. These contrasts evoked a mismatch negativity response, which is an event-related potential and a neural marker of implicit memory, in the subjects with long-term musical training, but not in the subjects without. Notably, this response was followed by a salient P3 component which implies involvement of involuntary consciousness in the implicit memory retrieval. Finally, source analysis of the P3 revealed moving dipoles from the frontal lobe to the insula, a brain region closely related to conscious attention. Our study presents a case of involvement of involuntary consciousness in the implicit memory retrieval and suggests a potential challenge to the classical definition of implicit memory.
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- Xiu-Yuan Liang
- Auditory Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Auditory Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Auditory Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Affiliated Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Auditory Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Affiliated Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Lin Chen,
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Biagianti B, Bigoni D, Maggioni E, Brambilla P. Can neuroimaging-based biomarkers predict response to cognitive remediation in patients with psychosis? A state-of-the-art review. J Affect Disord 2022; 305:196-205. [PMID: 35283181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.03.006] [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: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cognitive Remediation (CR) is designed to halt the pathological neural systems that characterize major psychotic disorders (MPD), and its main objective is to improve cognitive functioning. The magnitude of CR-induced cognitive gains greatly varies across patients with MPD, with up to 40% of patients not showing gains in global cognitive performance. This is likely due to the high degree of heterogeneity in neural activation patterns underlying cognitive endophenotypes, and to inter-individual differences in neuroplastic potential, cortical organization and interaction between brain systems in response to learning. Here, we review studies that used neuroimaging to investigate which biomarkers could potentially serve as predictors of treatment response to CR in MPD. METHODS This systematic review followed the PRISMA guidelines. An electronic database search (Embase, Elsevier; Scopus, PsycINFO, APA; PubMed, APA) was conducted in March 2021. peer-reviewed, English-language studies were included if they reported data for adults aged 18+ with MPD, reported findings from randomized controlled trials or single-arm trials of CR; and presented neuroimaging data. RESULTS Sixteen studies were included and eight neuroimaging-based biomarkers were identified. Auditory mismatch negativity (3 studies), auditory steady-state response (1), gray matter morphology (3), white matter microstructure (1), and task-based fMRI (7) can predict response to CR. Efference copy corollary/discharge, resting state, and thalamo-cortical connectivity (1) require further research prior to being implemented. CONCLUSIONS Translational research on neuroimaging-based biomarkers can help elucidate the mechanisms by which CR influences the brain's functional architecture, better characterize psychotic subpopulations, and ultimately deliver CR that is optimized and personalized.
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- Bruno Biagianti
- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Matsubara T, Stufflebeam S, Khan S, Ahveninen J, Hämäläinen M, Goto Y, Maekawa T, Tobimatsu S, Kishida K. Weighted Blind Source Separation Can Decompose the Frequency Mismatch Response by Deviant Concatenation: An MEG Study. Front Neurol 2022; 13:762497. [PMID: 35280282 PMCID: PMC8916481 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.762497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The mismatch response (MMR) is thought to be a neurophysiological measure of novel auditory detection that could serve as a translational biomarker of various neurological diseases. When recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG), the MMR is traditionally extracted by subtracting the event-related potential/field (ERP/ERF) elicited in response to “deviant” sounds that occur randomly within a train of repetitive “standard” sounds. However, there are several problems with such a subtraction, which include increased noise and the neural adaptation problem. On the basis of the original theory underlying MMR (i.e., the memory-comparison process), the MMR should be present only in deviant epochs. Therefore, we proposed a novel method called weighted-BSST/k, which uses only the deviant response to derive the MMR. Deviant concatenation and weight assignment are the primary procedures of weighted-BSST/k, which maximize the benefits of time-delayed correlation. We hypothesized that this novel weighted-BSST/k method highlights responses related to the detection of the deviant stimulus and is more sensitive than independent component analysis (ICA). To test this hypothesis and the validity and efficacy of the weighted-BSST/k in comparison with ICA (infomax), we evaluated the methods in 12 healthy adults. Auditory stimuli were presented at a constant rate of 2 Hz. Frequency MMRs at a sensor level were obtained from the bilateral temporal lobes with the subtraction approach at 96–276 ms (the MMR time range), defined based on spatio-temporal cluster permutation analysis. In the application of the weighted-BSST/k, the deviant responses were given a constant weight using a rectangular window on the MMR time range. The ERF elicited by the weighted deviant responses demonstrated one or a few dominant components representing the MMR that fitted well with that of the sensor space analysis using the conventional subtraction approach. In contrast, infomax or weighted-infomax revealed many minor or pseudo components as constituents of the MMR. Our single-trial, contrast-free approach may assist in using the MMR in basic and clinical research, and it opens a new and potentially useful way to analyze event-related MEG/EEG data.
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- Teppei Matsubara
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
- International University of Health and Welfare, Fukuoka, Japan
- *Correspondence: Teppei Matsubara
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Japan
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- Department of Orthoptics, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka International University of Health and Welfare, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
- Hermitage of Magnetoencephalography, Osaka, Japan
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Lecaignard F, Bertrand R, Brunner P, Caclin A, Schalk G, Mattout J. Dynamics of Oddball Sound Processing: Trial-by-Trial Modeling of ECoG Signals. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 15:794654. [PMID: 35221952 PMCID: PMC8866734 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.794654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent computational models of perception conceptualize auditory oddball responses as signatures of a (Bayesian) learning process, in line with the influential view of the mismatch negativity (MMN) as a prediction error signal. Novel MMN experimental paradigms have put an emphasis on neurophysiological effects of manipulating regularity and predictability in sound sequences. This raises the question of the contextual adaptation of the learning process itself, which on the computational side speaks to the mechanisms of gain-modulated (or precision-weighted) prediction error. In this study using electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals, we manipulated the predictability of oddball sound sequences with two objectives: (i) Uncovering the computational process underlying trial-by-trial variations of the cortical responses. The fluctuations between trials, generally ignored by approaches based on averaged evoked responses, should reflect the learning involved. We used a general linear model (GLM) and Bayesian Model Reduction (BMR) to assess the respective contributions of experimental manipulations and learning mechanisms under probabilistic assumptions. (ii) To validate and expand on previous findings regarding the effect of changes in predictability using simultaneous EEG-MEG recordings. Our trial-by-trial analysis revealed only a few stimulus-responsive sensors but the measured effects appear to be consistent over subjects in both time and space. In time, they occur at the typical latency of the MMN (between 100 and 250 ms post-stimulus). In space, we found a dissociation between time-independent effects in more anterior temporal locations and time-dependent (learning) effects in more posterior locations. However, we could not observe any clear and reliable effect of our manipulation of predictability modulation onto the above learning process. Overall, these findings clearly demonstrate the potential of trial-to-trial modeling to unravel perceptual learning processes and their neurophysiological counterparts.
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- Françoise Lecaignard
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Neurology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States
- National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Albany, NY, United States
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Albany, NY, United States
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Lyon, France
- University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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Raggi A, Lanza G, Ferri R. Auditory mismatch negativity in bipolar disorder: a focused review. Rev Neurosci 2022; 33:17-30. [PMID: 33837681 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro-2021-0010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The auditory mismatch negativity, a component of the event-related potential elicited by an unexpected stimulus in a sequence of acoustic stimuli, provides an objective measure of the accuracy of the echoic information processing of the human brain in vivo. Auditory mismatch negativity is also a useful probe of cortical glutamatergic N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor activity and disturbance. Notably, auditory mismatch negativity is consistently impaired in schizophrenia. Because of the wide spectrum extending from bipolar affective illness and schizoaffective psychosis to typical schizophrenia, we examined the literature on auditory mismatch negativity in bipolar disorder with the aim to find any neurophysiological dysfunction concerning pre-attentive information processing shared by these clinical conditions. This focused review includes 26 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals and indexed in the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine (PubMed) search system. Overall, evidence is consistent with the finding that auditory mismatch negativity is impaired in bipolar disorder with psychotic features, even though to a lesser extent than in schizophrenia. It must be acknowledged that, in a few twin and family studies, mismatch negativity abnormalities were not specifically associated with bipolar disorder. In conclusion, auditory mismatch negativity research supports the involvement of the N-methyl-d-aspartate system in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder, as previously assessed for schizophrenia, thus creating an intriguing trait d'union between these two mental illnesses and stimulating the development of novel therapeutic agents. With additional replication and validation, auditory mismatch negativity may be further considered as a correlate of a common psychopathology of schizophrenia and bipolar spectrum illnesses.
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- Alberto Raggi
- Unit of Neurology, G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni Hospital, Via Carlo Forlanini 34, 47121 Forlì, Italy
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- Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy
- Department of Neurology IC, Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Via Conte Ruggero 73, 94018 Troina, Italy
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- Department of Neurology IC, Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Via Conte Ruggero 73, 94018 Troina, Italy
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Xiao XZ, Wang Y, Wong GCS, Zhao K, Tse CY. Frontotemporal network in automatic / pre-attentive detection of abstract change: An event-related optical signal (EROS) study. Neuropsychologia 2022; 164:108093. [PMID: 34822860 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The human brain constantly monitors the environment for unexpected changes. Under the prediction violation account, the Inferior Frontal Cortex (IFC) is involved in prediction-related processes for deviance detection processes in the Superior Temporal Cortex (STC). Consistent with this account, previous studies revealed an IFC-to-STC-followed-by-IFC mismatch response pattern to physical changes using event-related optical signals (EROS). However, detecting physical changes can be achieved by direct comparison of physical features between stimuli without making predictions, thus direct evidence supporting the prediction nature of the IFC-STC network in pre-attentive change detection was lacking. To address this issue, this study examined the EROS mismatch responses of the IFC-STC network when detecting the violation of an abstract rule. The rule "the higher the frequency of a tone, the stronger the intensity" established by standards was violated by deviants of 12 deviance levels. When deviants were preceded by a short train of standards, early IFC, STC, and late IFC EROS mismatch responses linearly increased with the deviance levels. When deviants were preceded by a longer train of standards, the STC but not the early or late IFC EROS mismatch responses were elicited by all the deviants without modulation by deviance levels. These results demonstrate a functional role of the IFC in the abstract change detection when insufficient rule-conforming information could be extracted from the preceding standards and are consistent with the predictive violation account of pre-attentive change detection.
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- Xue-Zhen Xiao
- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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Tse CY, Shum YH, Xiao XZ, Wang Y. Fronto-occipital mismatch responses in pre-attentive detection of visual changes: Implication on a generic brain network underlying Mismatch Negativity (MMN). Neuroimage 2021; 244:118633. [PMID: 34624501 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Current theories of pre-attentive change detection suggest a regularity or prediction violation mechanism involving a frontotemporal network. Modulations of the early inferior frontal cortex (IFC) mismatch response representing the effort in comparing a stimulus to the prediction, the superior temporal cortex (STC) response indicating deviance detection, and the late IFC response representing prediction model updating were consistently demonstrated in auditory change detection using event-related optical signal (EROS). If the prediction violation hypothesis is universal, a generic neural mechanism should be found in all sensory modalities. We postulated a generic fronto-sensory cortical network underlying the prediction violation mechanism: the IFC is responsible for non-modality-specific prediction processes while the sensory cortices are responsible for modality-specific error signal generation process. This study examined the involvement of the IFC-occipital cortex (OC) network in visual pre-attentive change detection. The EROS mismatch responses to deviant bar arrays violating a fixed orientation regularity (low in regularity abstractness) were compared to that of deviant violating a rotational orientation regularity (high in abstractness) while the information available for establishing the prediction model was manipulated by varying the number of standards preceding the deviants. Modulations of the IFCOC mismatch response patterns by abstractness and train length reflected the processing demands on the prediction processes and were similar to that of the IFC-STC network in auditory change detection. These findings demonstrated that the fronto-sensory cortical network is not unique to auditory pre-attentive change detection and provided supports for a universal neural mechanism across sensory modalities as suggested by the prediction violation hypothesis.
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- Chun-Yu Tse
- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Wang J, Chen T, Jiao X, Liu K, Tong S, Sun J. Test-retest reliability of duration-related and frequency-related mismatch negativity. Neurophysiol Clin 2021; 51:541-548. [PMID: 34750039 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2021.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES -Mismatch negativity (MMN) has been demonstrated as a potential biomarker for pre-attentive processing and prognosis in patients with psychosis. However, previous studies mainly evaluated the reliability of MMN across only two repeated sessions, which is inadequate to draw a convincing conclusion. The current study aimed to assess multi-session test-retest reliability in duration-related MMN (dMMN) and frequency-related MMN (fMMN). METHODS -We recorded four repeated sessions of electroencephalography (EEG) from 16 healthy participants in an oddball task. MMNs were extracted and their reliability was evaluated by intra-class coefficient (ICC). We also analyzed the correlation between fMMN and dMMN. RESULTS -Both dMMN and fMMN amplitudes exhibited good test-retest reliability, and fMMN had better reliability (average ICC = 0.7279) than dMMN (average ICC = 0.6974). Moreover, dMMN and fMMN showed more than moderate linear correlation in amplitudes (r = 0.598, CI: [0.100, 0.857]). CONCLUSION -Both the duration- and frequency-related MMN amplitudes were highly reliable across four-session experiments. These results provide further evidence for the potential utility of MMNs as biomarkers in research into brain function, and prognosis in psychotic illness.
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- Jingyi Wang
- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China; Brain Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Med-X Engineering Research Center, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China; Brain Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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Shiramatsu TI, Mori K, Ishizu K, Takahashi H. Auditory, Visual, and Cross-Modal Mismatch Negativities in the Rat Auditory and Visual Cortices. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:721476. [PMID: 34602996 PMCID: PMC8484534 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.721476] [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: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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When the brain tries to acquire an elaborate model of the world, multisensory integration should contribute to building predictions based on the various pieces of information, and deviance detection should repeatedly update these predictions by detecting “errors” from the actual sensory inputs. Accumulating evidence such as a hierarchical organization of the deviance-detection system indicates that the deviance-detection system can be interpreted in the predictive coding framework. Herein, we targeted mismatch negativity (MMN) as a type of prediction-error signal and investigated the relationship between multisensory integration and MMN. In particular, we studied whether and how cross-modal information processing affected MMN in rodents. We designed a new surface microelectrode array and simultaneously recorded visual and auditory evoked potentials from the visual and auditory cortices of rats under anesthesia. Then, we mapped MMNs for five types of deviant stimuli: single-modal deviants in (i) the visual oddball and (ii) auditory oddball paradigms, eliciting single-modal MMN; (iii) congruent audio-visual deviants, (iv) incongruent visual deviants, and (v) incongruent auditory deviants in the audio-visual oddball paradigm, eliciting cross-modal MMN. First, we demonstrated that visual MMN exhibited deviance detection properties and that the first-generation focus of visual MMN was localized in the visual cortex, as previously reported in human studies. Second, a comparison of MMN amplitudes revealed a non-linear relationship between single-modal and cross-modal MMNs. Moreover, congruent audio-visual MMN exhibited characteristics of both visual and auditory MMNs—its latency was similar to that of auditory MMN, whereas local blockage of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptors in the visual cortex diminished it as well as visual MMN. These results indicate that cross-modal information processing affects MMN without involving strong top-down effects, such as those of prior knowledge and attention. The present study is the first electrophysiological evidence of cross-modal MMN in animal models, and future studies on the neural mechanisms combining multisensory integration and deviance detection are expected to provide electrophysiological evidence to confirm the links between MMN and predictive coding theory.
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Machine-learning-based diagnosis of drug-naive adult patients with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder using mismatch negativity. Transl Psychiatry 2021; 11:484. [PMID: 34537812 PMCID: PMC8449778 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01604-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Relatively little is investigated regarding the neurophysiology of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related potential component representing pre-attentive auditory processing, which is closely associated with cognitive status. We investigated MMN features as biomarkers to classify drug-naive adult patients with ADHD and healthy controls (HCs). Sensor-level features (amplitude and latency) and source-level features (source activation) of MMN were investigated and compared between the electroencephalograms of 34 patients with ADHD and 45 HCs using a passive auditory oddball paradigm. Correlations between MMN features and ADHD symptoms were analyzed. Finally, we applied machine learning to differentiate the two groups using sensor- and source-level features of MMN. Adult patients with ADHD showed significantly lower MMN amplitudes at the frontocentral electrodes and reduced MMN source activation in the frontal, temporal, and limbic lobes, which were closely associated with MMN generators and ADHD pathophysiology. Source activities were significantly correlated with ADHD symptoms. The best classification performance for adult ADHD patients and HCs showed an 81.01% accuracy, 82.35% sensitivity, and 80.00% specificity based on MMN source activity features. Our results suggest that abnormal MMN reflects the adult ADHD patients' pathophysiological characteristics and might serve clinically as a neuromarker of adult ADHD.
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Inaba H, Namba H, Kida S, Nawa H. The dopamine D2 agonist quinpirole impairs frontal mismatch responses to sound frequency deviations in freely moving rats. Neuropsychopharmacol Rep 2021; 41:405-415. [PMID: 34296531 PMCID: PMC8411315 DOI: 10.1002/npr2.12199] [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: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Aim A reduced mismatch negativity (MMN) response is a promising electrophysiological endophenotype of schizophrenia that reflects neurocognitive impairment. Dopamine dysfunction is associated with symptoms of schizophrenia. However, whether the dopamine system is involved in MMN impairment remains controversial. In this study, we investigated the effects of the dopamine D2‐like receptor agonist quinpirole on mismatch responses to sound frequency changes in an animal model. Methods Event‐related potentials were recorded from electrocorticogram electrodes placed on the auditory and frontal cortices of freely moving rats using a frequency oddball paradigm consisting of ascending and equiprobable (ie, many standards) control sequences before and after the subcutaneous administration of quinpirole. To detect mismatch responses, difference waveforms were obtained by subtracting nondeviant control waveforms from deviant waveforms. Results Here, we show the significant effects of quinpirole on frontal mismatch responses to sound frequency deviations in rats. Quinpirole delayed the frontal N18 and P30 mismatch responses and reduced the frontal N55 MMN‐like response, which resulted from the reduction in the N55 amplitude to deviant stimuli. Importantly, the magnitude of the N55 amplitude was negatively correlated with the time of the P30 latency in the difference waveforms. In contrast, quinpirole administration did not clearly affect the temporal mismatch responses recorded from the auditory cortex. Conclusion These results suggest that the disruption of dopamine D2‐like receptor signaling by quinpirole reduces frontal MMN to sound frequency deviations and that delays in early mismatch responses are involved in this MMN impairment. The subcutaneous administration of quinpirole delayed early mismatch response latencies and reduced a late MMN‐like response amplitude recorded from the frontal cortex but had no effect on those recorded from the auditory cortex. These observations suggest that increased dopamine D2‐like receptor signaling impairs MMN generation to sound frequency changes in the frontal cortex and that the neurochemical mechanisms of MMN vary according to the cortical area. As MMN is associated with cognitive function, these new findings may help develop treatment modalities for cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia.![]()
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- Hiroyoshi Inaba
- Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.,Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.,Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
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- Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.,Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
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Norton ES, Beach SD, Eddy MD, McWeeny S, Ozernov-Palchik O, Gaab N, Gabrieli JDE. ERP Mismatch Negativity Amplitude and Asymmetry Reflect Phonological and Rapid Automatized Naming Skills in English-Speaking Kindergartners. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:624617. [PMID: 34220468 PMCID: PMC8249724 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.624617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The mismatch negativity (MMN), an electrophysiological response to an oddball auditory stimulus, is related to reading ability in many studies. There are conflicting findings regarding exactly how the MMN relates to risk or actual diagnosis of dyslexia/reading impairment, perhaps due to the heterogeneity of abilities in children with reading impairment. In this study, 166 English-speaking kindergarten children oversampled for dyslexia risk completed behavioral assessments and a speech-syllable MMN paradigm. We examined how early and late MMN mean amplitude and laterality were related to two established predictors of reading ability: phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN). In bootstrapped group analyses, late MMN amplitude was significantly greater in children with typical PA ability than low PA ability. In contrast, laterality of the early and late MMN was significantly different in children with low versus typical RAN ability. Continuous analyses controlling for child age, non-verbal IQ, and letter and word identification abilities showed the same associations between late MMN amplitude with PA and late MMN laterality with RAN. These findings suggest that amplitude of the MMN may relate to phonological representations and ability to manipulate them, whereas MMN laterality may reflect differences in brain processes that support automaticity needed for reading.
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- Elizabeth S. Norton
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Deficient sensory and cognitive processing in children with cochlear implants: An event-related potential study. Hear Res 2021; 408:108295. [PMID: 34175588 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Compared with children having normal hearing (NH), those with cochlear implants (CIs) perform poorly in spoken language comprehension which involves both low-level acoustic encoding and higher-level cognitive processing. Here, we performed an electroencephalography study to portray this brain dynamics of speech perception in CI children. We presented a Mandarin Chinese monosyllable or four-syllable idiom to CI and NH children, and infrequently varied its lexical tone to form a novel monosyllable or pseudo-idiom in an oddball paradigm. The tone contrast embedded in the monosyllables evoked similar mismatch negativities (MMNs) in CI and NH children at an early stage (~200 ms). However, the amplitude of the MMN evoked by the tone contrast in the idiom context was significantly lower in CI children than in NH children. Furthermore, robust late discriminative negativity (LDN) at a late stage (~500 ms) was found only in NH children, but not in CI children. The MMN and LDN findings indicate deficits of low-level acoustic encoding in a complex context (such as an idiom) and higher-level cognitive processing in CI children, respectively. Both deficient sensory and cognitive processing may contribute to the speech perception difficulties in CI children.
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Feige B, Baglioni C, Boehm P, Heinrich A, Trumm S, Benz F, Nissen C, Domschke K, Frase L, Riemann D. Event-related potentials in insomnia reflect altered perception of sleep. Sleep 2021; 44:6290313. [PMID: 34059920 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Revised: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Insomnia is defined by the subjective complaint of poor sleep as well as daytime impairments. Since polysomnography (PSG) typically shows only modest sleep impairment, some still unidentified property of sleep, not mirrored in PSG, may be modified in insomnia.One possible mechanistic hypothesis is that insomnia patients may be more sensitive to inevitably occurring internal or external stimuli during the night, causing brief sleep disruptions then perceived as wake time. METHODS Auditory event-related potentials (ERP) to low intensity (50 dB SPL) synthesized guitar tones played continuously throughout two nights of polysomnographically registered sleep were obtained in fifty patients with insomnia disorder (ID, without comorbidities) and 50 age- and sex- matched good sleeper controls (GSC) for each sleep stage and NREM/REM cycle. Phasic and tonic REM were treated as separate stages. Latencies and amplitudes of components P1, N1 and P2 were measured and analyzed by multivariate repeated-measures ANCOVA including effects of group, night, cycle and age. RESULTS ID showed reduced P2 amplitudes relative to GSC specifically in phasic REM sleep. The same reduction also correlated with the amount of sleep misperception across groups. Independent component analysis showed a frontal negativity to contribute most to this group difference. CONCLUSIONS The present finding can be interpreted as increased mismatch negativity (MMN) in ID, reflecting automated detection of change in the auditory system and a concomitant orienting response. Specifically phasic REM sleep appears to be vulnerable to sensory afferences in ID patients, possibly contributing to the perception of being awake.
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- Bernd Feige
- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Center for Basics in NeuroModulation (NeuroModulBasics), Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Section of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Hauptstraße, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Breisacherstraße, Freiburg, Germany
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Kask A, Põldver N, Ausmees L, Kreegipuu K. Subjectively different emotional schematic faces not automatically discriminated from the brain's bioelectrical responses. Conscious Cogn 2021; 93:103150. [PMID: 34051391 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2020] [Revised: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The present study investigates how the brain automatically discriminates emotional schematic faces, as indicated by the mismatch responses, and how reliable these brain responses are. Thirty-three healthy volunteers participated in the vMMN EEG experiment with four experimental sets differing from each other by the type of standard (object with scrambled face features) and the type of deviants (Angry, Happy and Neutral schematic faces) presented. Conscious subjective evaluations of valence, arousal and attention catching of the same stimuli showed clear differentiation of emotional expressions. Deviant faces elicited rather similar vMMN at frontal and occipital sites. Bayesian analyses suggest that vMMN does not differ between angry and happy faces. Neutral faces, however, did not yield statistically significant vMMN at occipital leads. Pearson's correlation and intra-class correlation analyses showed that the brain's reactions to the stimuli were highly stable within individuals across the experimental sets, whereas the mismatch responses were much more variable.
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- Annika Kask
- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Doctoral School of Behavioural, Social and Health Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Bonetti L, Bruzzone SEP, Sedghi NA, Haumann NT, Paunio T, Kantojärvi K, Kliuchko M, Vuust P, Brattico E. Brain predictive coding processes are associated to COMT gene Val158Met polymorphism. Neuroimage 2021; 233:117954. [PMID: 33716157 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Predicting events in the ever-changing environment is a fundamental survival function intrinsic to the physiology of sensory systems, whose efficiency varies among the population. Even though it is established that a major source of such variations is genetic heritage, there are no studies tracking down auditory predicting processes to genetic mutations. Thus, we examined the neurophysiological responses to deviant stimuli recorded with magnetoencephalography (MEG) in 108 healthy participants carrying different variants of Val158Met single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, responsible for the majority of catecholamines degradation in the prefrontal cortex. Our results showed significant amplitude enhancement of prediction error responses originating from the inferior frontal gyrus, superior and middle temporal cortices in heterozygous genotype carriers (Val/Met) vs homozygous (Val/Val and Met/Met) carriers. Integrating neurophysiology and genetics, this study shows how the neural mechanisms underlying optimal deviant detection vary according to the gene-determined cathecolamine levels in the brain.
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- L Bonetti
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
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Hsu YF, Waszak F, Strömmer J, Hämäläinen JA. Human Brain Ages With Hierarchy-Selective Attenuation of Prediction Errors. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:2156-2168. [PMID: 33258914 PMCID: PMC7945026 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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From the perspective of predictive coding, our brain embodies a hierarchical generative model to realize perception, which proactively predicts the statistical structure of sensory inputs. How are these predictive processes modified as we age? Recent research suggested that aging leads to decreased weighting of sensory inputs and increased reliance on predictions. Here we investigated whether this age-related shift from sensorium to predictions occurs at all levels of hierarchical message passing. We recorded the electroencephalography responses with an auditory local-global paradigm in a cohort of 108 healthy participants from 3 groups: seniors, adults, and adolescents. The detection of local deviancy seems largely preserved in older individuals at earlier latency (including the mismatch negativity followed by the P3a but not the reorienting negativity). In contrast, the detection of global deviancy is clearly compromised in older individuals, as they showed worse task performance and attenuated P3b. Our findings demonstrate that older brains show little decline in sensory (i.e., first-order) prediction errors but significant diminution in contextual (i.e., second-order) prediction errors. Age-related deficient maintenance of auditory information in working memory might affect whether and how lower-level prediction errors propagate to the higher level.
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- Yi-Fang Hsu
- Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, 106308 Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, 106308 Taipei, Taiwan
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC), Unité Mixte de Recherche 8002, 75006 Paris, France
- Université de Paris, 75006 Paris, France
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Curtis MT, Coffman BA, Salisbury DF. Pitch and Duration Mismatch Negativity are Associated With Distinct Auditory Cortex and Inferior Frontal Cortex Volumes in the First-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 2:sgab005. [PMID: 33738454 PMCID: PMC7953127 DOI: 10.1093/schizbullopen/sgab005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Background Pitch and duration mismatch negativity (pMMN/dMMN) are related to left Heschl's gyrus gray matter volumes in first-episode schizophrenia (FESz). Previous methods were unable to delineate functional subregions within and outside Heschl's gyrus. The Human Connectome Project multimodal parcellation (HCP-MMP) atlas overcomes this limitation by parcellating these functional subregions. Further, MMN has generators in inferior frontal cortex, and therefore, may be associated with inferior frontal cortex pathology. With the novel use of the HCP-MMP to precisely parcellate auditory and inferior frontal cortex, we investigated relationships between gray matter and pMMN and dMMN in FESz. Methods pMMN and dMMN were measured at Fz from 27 FESz and 27 matched healthy controls. T1-weighted MRI scans were acquired. The HCP-MMP atlas was applied to individuals, and gray matter volumes were calculated for bilateral auditory and inferior frontal cortex parcels and correlated with MMN. FDR correction was used for multiple comparisons. Results In FESz only, pMMN was negatively correlated with left medial belt in auditory cortex and area 47L in inferior frontal cortex. Duration MMN negatively correlated with the following auditory parcels: left medial belt, lateral belt, parabelt, TA2, and right A5. Further, dMMN was associated with left area 47L, right area 44, and right area 47L in inferior frontal cortex. Conclusions The novel approach revealed overlapping and distinct gray matter associations for pMMN and dMMN in auditory and inferior frontal cortex in FESz. Thus, pMMN and dMMN may serve as biomarkers of underlying pathological deficits in both similar and slightly different cortical areas.
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- Mark T Curtis
- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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Gorin A, Krugliakova E, Nikulin V, Kuznetsova A, Moiseeva V, Klucharev V, Shestakova A. Cortical plasticity elicited by acoustically cued monetary losses: an ERP study. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21161. [PMID: 33273646 PMCID: PMC7713235 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78211-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Both human and animal studies have demonstrated remarkable findings of experience-induced plasticity in the cortex. Here, we investigated whether the widely used monetary incentive delay (MID) task changes the neural processing of incentive cues that code expected monetary outcomes. We used a novel auditory version of the MID task, where participants responded to acoustic cues that coded expected monetary losses. To investigate task-induced brain plasticity, we presented incentive cues as deviants during passive oddball tasks before and after two sessions of the MID task. During the oddball task, we recorded the mismatch-related negativity (MMN) as an index of cortical plasticity. We found that two sessions of the MID task evoked a significant enhancement of MMN for incentive cues that predicted large monetary losses, specifically when monetary cue discrimination was essential for maximising monetary outcomes. The task-induced plasticity correlated with the learning-related neural activity recorded during the MID task. Thus, our results confirm that the processing of (loss)incentive auditory cues is dynamically modulated by previously learned monetary outcomes.
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- Aleksei Gorin
- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia.
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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Casado-Román L, Carbajal GV, Pérez-González D, Malmierca MS. Prediction error signaling explains neuronal mismatch responses in the medial prefrontal cortex. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3001019. [PMID: 33347436 PMCID: PMC7785337 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a key biomarker of automatic deviance detection thought to emerge from 2 cortical sources. First, the auditory cortex (AC) encodes spectral regularities and reports frequency-specific deviances. Then, more abstract representations in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) allow to detect contextual changes of potential behavioral relevance. However, the precise location and time asynchronies between neuronal correlates underlying this frontotemporal network remain unclear and elusive. Our study presented auditory oddball paradigms along with "no-repetition" controls to record mismatch responses in neuronal spiking activity and local field potentials at the rat medial PFC. Whereas mismatch responses in the auditory system are mainly induced by stimulus-dependent effects, we found that auditory responsiveness in the PFC was driven by unpredictability, yielding context-dependent, comparatively delayed, more robust and longer-lasting mismatch responses mostly comprised of prediction error signaling activity. This characteristically different composition discarded that mismatch responses in the PFC could be simply inherited or amplified downstream from the auditory system. Conversely, it is more plausible for the PFC to exert top-down influences on the AC, since the PFC exhibited flexible and potent predictive processing, capable of suppressing redundant input more efficiently than the AC. Remarkably, the time course of the mismatch responses we observed in the spiking activity and local field potentials of the AC and the PFC combined coincided with the time course of the large-scale MMN-like signals reported in the rat brain, thereby linking the microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic levels of automatic deviance detection.
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- Lorena Casado-Román
- Cognitive and Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (CANELAB), Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
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- Cognitive and Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (CANELAB), Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
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- Cognitive and Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (CANELAB), Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
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- Cognitive and Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (CANELAB), Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL), Salamanca, Spain
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
- Department of Biology and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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Lecaignard F, Bertrand O, Caclin A, Mattout J. Empirical Bayes evaluation of fused EEG-MEG source reconstruction: Application to auditory mismatch evoked responses. Neuroimage 2020; 226:117468. [PMID: 33075561 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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We here turn the general and theoretical question of the complementarity of EEG and MEG for source reconstruction, into a practical empirical one. Precisely, we address the challenge of evaluating multimodal data fusion on real data. For this purpose, we build on the flexibility of Parametric Empirical Bayes, namely for EEG-MEG data fusion, group level inference and formal hypothesis testing. The proposed approach follows a two-step procedure by first using unimodal or multimodal inference to derive a cortical solution at the group level; and second by using this solution as a prior model for single subject level inference based on either unimodal or multimodal data. Interestingly, for inference based on the same data (EEG, MEG or both), one can then formally compare, as alternative hypotheses, the relative plausibility of the two unimodal and the multimodal group priors. Using auditory data, we show that this approach enables to draw important conclusions, namely on (i) the superiority of multimodal inference, (ii) the greater spatial sensitivity of MEG compared to EEG, (iii) the ability of EEG data alone to source reconstruct temporal lobe activity, (iv) the usefulness of EEG to improve MEG based source reconstruction. Importantly, we largely reproduce those findings over two different experimental conditions. We here focused on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) responses for which generators have been extensively investigated with little homogeneity in the reported results. Our multimodal inference at the group level revealed spatio-temporal activity within the supratemporal plane with a precision which, to our knowledge, has never been achieved before with non-invasive recordings.
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- Françoise Lecaignard
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL; INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon, F-69000, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France.
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL; INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon, F-69000, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL; INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon, F-69000, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL; INSERM, U1028; CNRS, UMR5292; Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, Lyon, F-69000, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69000, France
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Kubota M, Matsuzaki J, Dan I, Dan H, Zouridakis G. Head errors of syntactic dependency increase neuromagnetic mismatch intensities. Exp Brain Res 2020; 238:2137-2160. [PMID: 32661653 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-020-05872-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mismatch-related brain activation in healthy individuals is an important area of neural investigation. Previously, we evaluated sentence-level syntactic dependencies, composed of a head and a dependent between two syntactically related words in head-initial English structures. We demonstrated that prominent mismatch effects were induced by within-category dependent errors when semantic interpretation was preserved. However, the following issues were not addressed: (1) whether head errors of syntactic dependency in head-final structures would elicit large mismatch field (MMF) intensities, and (2) whether an MMF effect of syntactic errors would be seen in the left superior temporal cortex alone. In this study, auditory MMFs were obtained by magnetocephalography (MEG) from healthy Japanese adults (n = 8) who were subjected to a passive auditory oddball paradigm with syntactically legal or illegal utterances and single words in Japanese. The results demonstrate that the source waveforms had significantly higher MMF cortical activation in response to the head error, which involved altered polarity of the predicate. This resulted in a syntactically incorrect and semantically incomprehensible expression, when compared to the syntactically correct expression and the non-structural lexical item. This mismatch effect, with a peak latency of 164 ms, was confined to the anterior region of the left superior temporal cortex. The current results clearly indicate that the representation of syntactic dependency is stored in long-term memory and tends to be activated in automatic auditory processing.
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- Mikio Kubota
- Department of English, Seijo University, 6-1-20, Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8511, Japan.
- Functional Brain Science Lab, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
- Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Lurie Family Foundations MEG Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Functional Brain Science Lab, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
- Department of Integrated Sciences and Engineering for Sustainable Society, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Functional Brain Science Lab, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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Jung S, Kim YS, Yang TW, Kim DH, Kim MS, Bae SH, Kim GI, Kwon OY. Mismatch Negativity Using Frequency Difference in Healthy Young Adults: Latency and Amplitude. KOREAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.15324/kjcls.2020.52.3.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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- Seokwon Jung
- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Korea
- Department of Neurology and Institute of Health Science, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju, Korea
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Cocquyt EM, Vandewiele M, Bonnarens C, Santens P, De Letter M. The sensitivity of event-related potentials/fields to logopedic interventions in patients with stroke-related aphasia. Acta Neurol Belg 2020; 120:805-817. [PMID: 32474880 DOI: 10.1007/s13760-020-01378-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Recovery of stroke-related aphasia can be affected by language therapy in the early and chronic stage. Objectively monitoring therapy-induced neuroplasticity is possible by several measurement techniques including electro- and magneto-encephalography. The obtained event-related potentials (ERPs) and fields (ERFs) provide insights into the neural basis of intact or deficient language processing with milliseconds precision. In this literature review, we highlight the sensitivity of ERPs and ERFs to logopedic interventions by providing an overview of therapy-induced changes in the amplitude, latency and topography of early and mid-to-late components.
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- Elissa-Marie Cocquyt
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 2P1, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 2P1, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 2P1, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 13K12, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 2P1, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Xiao X, Shum Y, Lui TK, Wang Y, Cheung AT, Chu WCW, Neggers SFW, Chan SS, Tse C. Functional connectivity of the frontotemporal network in preattentive detection of abstract changes: Perturbs and observes with transcranial magnetic stimulation and event-related optical signal. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:2883-2897. [PMID: 32170910 PMCID: PMC7336140 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Current theories of automatic or preattentive change detection suggest a regularity or prediction violation mechanism involving functional connectivity between the inferior frontal cortex (IFC) and the superior temporal cortex (STC). By disrupting the IFC function with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and recording the later STC mismatch response with event-related optical signal (EROS), previous study demonstrated a causal IFC-to-STC functional connection in detecting a pitch or physical change. However, physical change detection can be achieved by memory comparison of the physical features and may not necessarily involve regularity/rule extraction and prediction. The current study investigated the IFC-STC functional connectivity in detecting rule violation (i.e., an abstract change). Frequent standard tone pairs with a constant relative pitch difference, but varying pitches, were presented to establish a pitch interval rule. This abstract rule was violated by deviants with reduced relative pitch intervals. The EROS STC mismatch response to the deviants was abolished by the TMS applied at the IFC 80 ms after deviance onset, but preserved in the spatial (TMS on vertex), auditory (TMS sound), and temporal (200 ms after deviance onset) control conditions. These results demonstrate the IFC-STC connection in preattentive abstract change detection and support the regularity or prediction violation account.
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- Xue‐Zhen Xiao
- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Imaging and Interventional RadiologyThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf MagnusUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychiatryThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Cognition and Brain StudiesThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong SARChina
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Randazzo M, Priefer R, Smith PJ, Nagler A, Avery T, Froud K. Neural Correlates of Modality-Sensitive Deviance Detection in the Audiovisual Oddball Paradigm. Brain Sci 2020; 10:brainsci10060328. [PMID: 32481538 PMCID: PMC7348766 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10060328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The McGurk effect, an incongruent pairing of visual /ga/–acoustic /ba/, creates a fusion illusion /da/ and is the cornerstone of research in audiovisual speech perception. Combination illusions occur given reversal of the input modalities—auditory /ga/-visual /ba/, and percept /bga/. A robust literature shows that fusion illusions in an oddball paradigm evoke a mismatch negativity (MMN) in the auditory cortex, in absence of changes to acoustic stimuli. We compared fusion and combination illusions in a passive oddball paradigm to further examine the influence of visual and auditory aspects of incongruent speech stimuli on the audiovisual MMN. Participants viewed videos under two audiovisual illusion conditions: fusion with visual aspect of the stimulus changing, and combination with auditory aspect of the stimulus changing, as well as two unimodal auditory- and visual-only conditions. Fusion and combination deviants exerted similar influence in generating congruency predictions with significant differences between standards and deviants in the N100 time window. Presence of the MMN in early and late time windows differentiated fusion from combination deviants. When the visual signal changes, a new percept is created, but when the visual is held constant and the auditory changes, the response is suppressed, evoking a later MMN. In alignment with models of predictive processing in audiovisual speech perception, we interpreted our results to indicate that visual information can both predict and suppress auditory speech perception.
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- Melissa Randazzo
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA; (R.P.); (A.N.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-516-877-4769
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA; (R.P.); (A.N.)
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- Neuroscience and Education, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; (P.J.S.); (T.A.); (K.F.)
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA; (R.P.); (A.N.)
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- Neuroscience and Education, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; (P.J.S.); (T.A.); (K.F.)
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- Neuroscience and Education, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; (P.J.S.); (T.A.); (K.F.)
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de Tommaso M, Betti V, Bocci T, Bolognini N, Di Russo F, Fattapposta F, Ferri R, Invitto S, Koch G, Miniussi C, Piccione F, Ragazzoni A, Sartucci F, Rossi S, Arcara G, Berchicci M, Bianco V, Delussi M, Gentile E, Giovannelli F, Mannarelli D, Marino M, Mussini E, Pauletti C, Pellicciari MC, Pisoni A, Raggi A, Valeriani M. Pearls and pitfalls in brain functional analysis by event-related potentials: a narrative review by the Italian Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Society on methodological limits and clinical reliability-part I. Neurol Sci 2020; 41:2711-2735. [PMID: 32388645 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-020-04420-7] [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: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Event-related potentials (ERPs) are obtained from the electroencephalogram (EEG) or the magnetoencephalogram (MEG, event-related fields (ERF)), extracting the activity that is time-locked to an event. Despite the potential utility of ERP/ERF in cognitive domain, the clinical standardization of their use is presently undefined for most of procedures. The aim of the present review is to establish limits and reliability of ERP medical application, summarize main methodological issues, and present evidence of clinical application and future improvement. The present section of the review focuses on well-standardized ERP methods, including P300, Contingent Negative Variation (CNV), Mismatch Negativity (MMN), and N400, with a chapter dedicated to laser-evoked potentials (LEPs). One section is dedicated to proactive preparatory brain activity as the Bereitschaftspotential and the prefrontal negativity (BP and pN). The P300 and the MMN potentials have a limited but recognized role in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment and consciousness disorders. LEPs have a well-documented usefulness in the diagnosis of neuropathic pain, with low application in clinical assessment of psychophysiological basis of pain. The other ERP components mentioned here, though largely applied in normal and pathological cases and well standardized, are still confined to the research field. CNV, BP, and pN deserve to be largely tested in movement disorders, just to explain possible functional changes in motor preparation circuits subtending different clinical pictures and responses to treatments.
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- Marina de Tommaso
- Applied Neurophysiology and Pain Unit-AnpLab-University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.,IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia (Santa Lucia Foundation), Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Psychology & NeuroMi, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.,Laboratory of Neuropsychology, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy
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- INSPIRE - Laboratory of Cognitive and Psychophysiological Olfactory Processes, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia (Santa Lucia Foundation), Rome, Italy.,Department of Neuroscience, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.,Cognitive Neuroscience Section, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics Research Group, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Fondazione PAS, Scandicci, Florence, Italy
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- Section of Neurophysiopathology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.,CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience Siena Brain Investigation and Neuromodulation Lab (SI-BIN Lab), University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics Research Group, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice, Italy
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- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia (Santa Lucia Foundation), Rome, Italy.,Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy
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- Applied Neurophysiology and Pain Unit-AnpLab-University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Applied Neurophysiology and Pain Unit-AnpLab-University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Section of Psychology - Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research, Child Health, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Brain Imaging and Neural Dynamics Research Group, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice, Italy
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- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology & NeuroMi, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
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- Neurology Ward Unit, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy. .,Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Shiramatsu TI, Takahashi H. Mismatch-negativity (MMN) in animal models: Homology of human MMN? Hear Res 2020; 399:107936. [PMID: 32197715 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mismatch negativity (MMN) has long been considered to be one of the deviance-detecting neural characteristics. Animal models exhibit similar neural activities, called MMN-like responses; however, there has been considerable debate on whether MMN-like responses are homologous to MMN in humans. Herein, we reviewed several studies that compared the electrophysiological, pharmacological, and functional properties of MMN-like responses and adaptation-exhibiting middle-latency responses (MLRs) in animals with those in humans. Accumulating evidence suggests that there are clear differences between MMN-like responses and MLRs, in particular that MMN-like responses can be distinguished from mere effects of adaptation, i.e., stimulus-specific adaptation. Finally, we discuss a new direction for research on MMN-like responses by introducing our recent work, which demonstrated that MMN-like responses represent empirical salience of deviant stimuli, suggesting a new functional role of MMN beyond simple deviance detection.
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
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Neural correlates of auditory sensory memory dynamics in the aging brain. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 88:128-136. [PMID: 32035848 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 12/22/2019] [Accepted: 12/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The auditory system allows us to monitor background environmental sound patterns and recognize deviations that may indicate opportunities or threats. The mismatch negativity and P3a potentials have generators in the auditory and inferior frontal cortex and index expected sound patterns (standards) and any aberrations (deviants). The mismatch negativity and P3a waveforms show increased positivity for consecutive standards and deviants preceded by more standards. We hypothesized attenuated repetition effects in older participants, potentially because of differences in prefrontal functions. Young (23 ± 5 years) and older (75 ± 5 years) adults were tested in 2 oddball paradigms with pitch or location deviants. Significant repetition effects were observed in the young standard and deviant waveforms at multiple time windows. Except the earliest time window (30-100 ms), repetition effects were absent in the older group. Repetition effects were significant at frontal but not temporal lobe sites and did not differ among pitch and location deviants. However, P3a repetition was evident in both ages. Findings suggest age differences in the dynamic updating of sensory memory for background sound patterns.
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Takasago M, Kunii N, Komatsu M, Tada M, Kirihara K, Uka T, Ishishita Y, Shimada S, Kasai K, Saito N. Spatiotemporal Differentiation of MMN From N1 Adaptation: A Human ECoG Study. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:586. [PMID: 32670112 PMCID: PMC7333077 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00586] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) is an electrophysiological response to a deviation from regularity. This response is considered pivotal to understanding auditory processing, particularly in the pre-attentive phase. However, previous findings suggest that MMN is a product of N1 adaptation/enhancement, which reflects lower-order auditory processing. The separability of these two components remains unclear and is considered an important issue in the field of neuroscience. The aim of the present study was to spatiotemporally differentiate MMN from N1 adaptation using human electrocorticography (ECoG). Auditory evoked potentials under the classical oddball (OD) task as well as the many standards (MS) task were recorded in three patients with epilepsy whose lateral cortices were widely covered with high-density electrodes. Close observation identified an electrode at which N1 adaptation was temporally separated from MMN, whereas N1 adaptation was partially incorporated into MMN at other electrodes. Since N1 adaptation occurs in the N1 population, we spatially compared MMN with N1 obtained from the MS task instead of N1 adaptation. As a result, N1 was observed in a limited area around the Sylvian fissure adjacent to A1, whereas MMN was noted in wider areas, including the temporal, frontal, and parietal lobes. MMN was thus considered to be differentiated from N1 adaptation. The results suggest that MMN is not merely a product of the neural adaptation of N1 and instead represents higher-order processes in auditory deviance detection. These results will contribute to strengthening the foundation of future research in this field.
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Affiliation(s)
- Megumi Takasago
- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Analysis of Higher Brain Function, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,The International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotuke, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,The International Research Center for Neurointelligence (WPI-IRCN), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract
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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