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Dos Anjos T, Di Rienzo F, Benoit CE, Daligault S, Guillot A. Brain wave modulation and EEG power changes during auditory beats stimulation. Neuroscience 2024; 554:156-166. [PMID: 39004412 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.07.014] [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: 01/13/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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Auditory beats stimulation (ABS) has received increased attention for its potential to modulate neural oscillations through a phenomenon described as brain entrainment (i.e synchronization of brain's electrocortical activity to external stimuli at a specific frequency). Recently, a new form of ABS has emerged, inspired by isochronic tones stimulation (ITd). This study investigated neural oscillatory responses induced by ITd in comparison with formerly well-established ABS protocols, such as gamma-binaural beats (BB) and white noise (WN). We recorded the electroencephalographic brain activity in 28 participants during 4 min of BB, ITd, and WN presentation. Data demonstrated that while both BB and WN enhanced oscillatory power on the EEG gamma band, consistently with the expected brain entrainment effect, ITd yielded greater changes in EEG power (p < 0.001). This was confirmed by time-based analysis, which showed a progressive increase in normalized EEG power within the ITd window compared to BB (p < 0.05). Findings also revealed that ITd elicited acute changes in the alpha band of EEG oscillations, through a progressive decrease in power over time, which was distinctly different from the pattern observed while listening BB and WN. Such dual alpha-gamma effects underline the promising and unique potential of ITd to modulate neural oscillations which selectively differ from BB and WN. This study contributes to the evolution of ABS research, highlighting the promise of ITd for cognitive enhancement and clinical applications.
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- Typhanie Dos Anjos
- Universite Lyon 1, UCBL-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, UR 7424, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France; Allyane®, 84 quai Joseph Gillet, 69004 Lyon, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCBL-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, UR 7424, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCBL-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, UR 7424, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Centre de Recherche Multimodal et Pluridisciplinaire en Imagerie du Vivant (CERMEP), Department of Magnetoencephalography, F-69500 Bron, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCBL-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, UR 7424, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
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Dos Anjos T, Guillot A, Daligault S, Chamoun DM, De Sousa T, Di Rienzo F. Low-frequency sounds combined with motor imagery elicits a transient disruption of force performance: A path to neuromotor reprogramming? Neuroimage 2024; 297:120746. [PMID: 39033789 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120746] [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: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 06/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
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The effectiveness of motor imagery (MI) training on sports performance is now well-documented. Recently, it has been proposed that a single session of MI combined with low frequency sound (LFS) might enhance muscle activation. However, the neural mechanisms underlying this effect remain unknown. We set up a test-retest intervention over the course of 2 consecutive days to evaluate the effect of (i) MI training (MI, n = 20), (ii) MI combined with LFS (MI + LFS, n = 20), and (iii) a control condition (CTRL, n = 20) on force torque produced across repeated maximal voluntary contractions of the quadriceps before (Pretest), after (Posttest) and at +12 h (Retention) post-intervention. We collected the integrated electromyograms of the quadriceps muscles, as well as brain electrical potentials during each experimental intervention. In the CTRL group, total force torque decreased from Pretest to Retention and from Posttest to Retention. By contrast, there was an increase between Posttest and Retention in both MI + LFS and MI groups (both ηP2 = 0.03, p < 0.05). Regression analyses further revealed a negative relationship between force performance and EEG activity in the MI + LFS group only. The data support a transient interference of LFS on cortical activity underlying the priming effects of MI practice on force performance. Findings are discussed in relation to the potential for motor reprogramming through MI combined with LFS.
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- Typhanie Dos Anjos
- Universite Lyon 1, UCB-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité-UR 7424, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France; Allyane®, 84 quai Joseph Gillet, 69004 Lyon, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCB-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité-UR 7424, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Centre de Recherche Multimodal et Pluridisciplinaire en Imagerie du Vivant (CERMEP), Department of Magnetoencephalography, F-69500 Bron, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCB-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité-UR 7424, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCB-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité-UR 7424, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Universite Lyon 1, UCB-Lyon 1, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité-UR 7424, F-69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
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Affortit C, Coyat C, Saidia AR, Ceccato JC, Charif M, Sarzi E, Flamant F, Guyot R, Cazevieille C, Puel JL, Lenaers G, Wang J. The human OPA1 delTTAG mutation induces adult onset and progressive auditory neuropathy in mice. Cell Mol Life Sci 2024; 81:80. [PMID: 38334784 PMCID: PMC10858076 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-024-05115-4] [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: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most prevalent forms of hereditary optic neuropathies and is mainly caused by heterozygous variants in OPA1, encoding a mitochondrial dynamin-related large GTPase. The clinical spectrum of DOA has been extended to a wide variety of syndromic presentations, called DOAplus, including deafness as the main secondary symptom associated to vision impairment. To date, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the deafness in DOA remain unknown. To gain insights into the process leading to hearing impairment, we have analyzed the Opa1delTTAG mouse model that recapitulates the DOAplus syndrome through complementary approaches combining morpho-physiology, biochemistry, and cellular and molecular biology. We found that Opa1delTTAG mutation leads an adult-onset progressive auditory neuropathy in mice, as attested by the auditory brainstem response threshold shift over time. However, the mutant mice harbored larger otoacoustic emissions in comparison to wild-type littermates, whereas the endocochlear potential, which is a proxy for the functional state of the stria vascularis, was comparable between both genotypes. Ultrastructural examination of the mutant mice revealed a selective loss of sensory inner hair cells, together with a progressive degeneration of the axons and myelin sheaths of the afferent terminals of the spiral ganglion neurons, supporting an auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD). Molecular assessment of cochlea demonstrated a reduction of Opa1 mRNA level by greater than 40%, supporting haploinsufficiency as the disease mechanism. In addition, we evidenced an early increase in Sirtuin 3 level and in Beclin1 activity, and subsequently an age-related mtDNA depletion, increased oxidative stress, mitophagy as well as an impaired autophagic flux. Together, these results support a novel role for OPA1 in the maintenance of inner hair cells and auditory neural structures, addressing new challenges for the exploration and treatment of OPA1-linked ANSD in patients.
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- Corentin Affortit
- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
- Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
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- Genetics, and Immuno-Cell Therapy Team, Mohamed First University, 60000, Oujda, Morocco
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- Institut NeuroMyoGène, Pathophysiology and Genetics of Neuron and Muscle (INMG-PGNM) UCBL-CNRS UMR5261, Inserm U1315, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), INRAE USC1370, CNRS (UMR5242), ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), INRAE USC1370, CNRS (UMR5242), ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France
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- Université Angers, MitoLab Team, Unité MitoVasc, UMR CNRS 6015, INSERM U1083, SFR ICAT, Angers, France
- Service de Neurologie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University Montpellier, INSERM, UMR 1298, 80 Rue Augustin Fliche, 34295, Montpellier, France.
- Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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Fischer M, Moscovitch M, Fukuda K, Alain C. Ready for action! When the brain learns, yet memory-biased action does not follow. Neuropsychologia 2023; 189:108660. [PMID: 37604333 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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Does memory prepare us to act? Long-term memory can facilitate signal detection, though the degree of benefit varies and can even be absent. To dissociate between learning and behavioral expression of learning, we used high-density electroencephalography (EEG) to assess memory retrieval and response processing. At learning, participants heard everyday sounds. Half of these sound clips were paired with an above-threshold lateralized tone, such that it was possible to form incidental associations between the sound clip and the location of the tone. Importantly, attention was directed to either the sound clip (Experiment 1) or the tone (Experiment 2). Participants then completed a novel detection task that separated cued retrieval from response processing. At retrieval, we observed a striking brain-behavior dissociation. Learning was observed neurally in both experiments. Behaviorally, however, signal detection was only facilitated in Experiment 2, for which there was an accompanying explicit memory for tone presence. Further, implicit neural memory for tone location correlated with the degree of response preparation, but not response execution. Together, the findings suggest 1) that attention at learning affects memory-biased action and 2) that memory prepared action via both explicit and implicit associative memory, with the latter triggering response preparation.
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- Manda Fischer
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
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Tao DD, Shi B, Galvin JJ, Liu JS, Fu QJ. Frequency detection, frequency discrimination, and spectro-temporal pattern perception in older and younger typically hearing adults. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18922. [PMID: 37583764 PMCID: PMC10424075 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18922] [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: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023] Open
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Elderly adults often experience difficulties in speech understanding, possibly due to age-related deficits in frequency perception. It is unclear whether age-related deficits in frequency perception differ between the apical or basal regions of the cochlea. It is also unclear how aging might differently affect frequency discrimination or detection of a change in frequency within a stimulus. In the present study, pure-tone frequency thresholds were measured in 19 older (61-74 years) and 20 younger (22-28 years) typically hearing adults. Participants were asked to discriminate between reference and probe frequencies or to detect changes in frequency within a probe stimulus. Broadband spectro-temporal pattern perception was also measured using the spectro-temporal modulated ripple test (SMRT). Frequency thresholds were significantly poorer in the basal than in the apical region of the cochlea; the deficit in the basal region was 2 times larger for the older than for the younger group. Frequency thresholds were significantly poorer in the older group, especially in the basal region where frequency detection thresholds were 3.9 times poorer for the older than for the younger group. SMRT thresholds were 1.5 times better for the younger than for the older group. Significant age effects were observed for SMRT thresholds and for frequency thresholds only in the basal region. SMRT thresholds were significantly correlated with frequency thresholds only in the older group. The poorer frequency and spectro-temporal pattern perception may contribute to age-related deficits in speech perception, even when audiometric thresholds are nearly normal.
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- Duo-Duo Tao
- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- House Institute Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, 90057, USA
- University Hospital Center of Tours, Tours, 37000, France
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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Mishra SK, Fu QJ, Galvin JJ, Galindo A. Suprathreshold auditory processes in listeners with normal audiograms but extended high-frequency hearing lossa). THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2023; 153:2745. [PMID: 37133816 DOI: 10.1121/10.0019337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Hearing loss in the extended high-frequency (EHF) range (>8 kHz) is widespread among young normal-hearing adults and could have perceptual consequences such as difficulty understanding speech in noise. However, it is unclear how EHF hearing loss might affect basic psychoacoustic processes. The hypothesis that EHF hearing loss is associated with poorer auditory resolution in the standard frequencies was tested. Temporal resolution was characterized by amplitude modulation detection thresholds (AMDTs), and spectral resolution was characterized by frequency change detection thresholds (FCDTs). AMDTs and FCDTs were measured in adults with or without EHF loss but with normal clinical audiograms. AMDTs were measured with 0.5- and 4-kHz carrier frequencies; similarly, FCDTs were measured for 0.5- and 4-kHz base frequencies. AMDTs were significantly higher with the 4 kHz than the 0.5 kHz carrier, but there was no significant effect of EHF loss. There was no significant effect of EHF loss on FCDTs at 0.5 kHz; however, FCDTs were significantly higher at 4 kHz for listeners with than without EHF loss. This suggests that some aspects of auditory resolution in the standard audiometric frequency range may be compromised in listeners with EHF hearing loss despite having a normal audiogram.
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- Srikanta K Mishra
- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- House Institute Foundation, Los Angeles, California 90075, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas 78539, USA
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Han JH, Lee J, Lee HJ. The effect of noise on the cortical activity patterns of speech processing in adults with single-sided deafness. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1054105. [PMID: 37006498 PMCID: PMC10060629 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1054105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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The most common complaint in people with single-sided deafness (SSD) is difficulty in understanding speech in a noisy environment. Moreover, the neural mechanism of speech-in-noise (SiN) perception in SSD individuals is still poorly understood. In this study, we measured the cortical activity in SSD participants during a SiN task to compare with a speech-in-quiet (SiQ) task. Dipole source analysis revealed left hemispheric dominance in both left- and right-sided SSD group. Contrary to SiN listening, this hemispheric difference was not found during SiQ listening in either group. In addition, cortical activation in the right-sided SSD individuals was independent of the location of sound whereas activation sites in the left-sided SSD group were altered by the sound location. Examining the neural-behavioral relationship revealed that N1 activation is associated with the duration of deafness and the SiN perception ability of individuals with SSD. Our findings indicate that SiN listening is processed differently in the brains of left and right SSD individuals.
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- Ji-Hye Han
- Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Republic of Korea
- Ear and Interaction Center, Doheun Institute for Digital Innovation in Medicine (D.I.D.I.M.), Hallym University Medical Center, Anyang, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Republic of Korea
- Ear and Interaction Center, Doheun Institute for Digital Innovation in Medicine (D.I.D.I.M.), Hallym University Medical Center, Anyang, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, Republic of Korea
- Ear and Interaction Center, Doheun Institute for Digital Innovation in Medicine (D.I.D.I.M.), Hallym University Medical Center, Anyang, Republic of Korea
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
- *Correspondence: Hyo-Jeong Lee
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Soeta Y, Onogawa E. Physiological evaluations of low-level impulsive sounds generated by an air conditioner. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1128752. [PMID: 36844263 PMCID: PMC9950742 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128752] [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: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Air conditioners are typically installed in buildings and vehicles to control thermal conditions for long periods of time. Air conditioners generate certain types of sounds while functioning, which are among the main noise sources in buildings and vehicles. Most sounds produced by the air conditioner do not change with time, and the sound quality of steady sounds has been investigated. However, air conditioners can generate low-level impulsive sounds. Customers complain of the discomfort caused when these sounds disturb the silence in their living rooms and bedrooms. This study aimed to determine the physical factors that have a significant effect on physiological responses to low-level impulsive sounds produced by air conditioners. We used physiological responses because it is difficult for people to evaluate sounds psychologically when they are sleeping or are not focused on the sounds. The A-weighted equivalent continuous sound pressure level (LAeq) and the factors extracted from the autocorrelation function (ACF) were evaluated as physical factors. Participant responses on electroencephalography (EEG) were evaluated. The correlation between the EEG responses and ACF factors was determined. The LAeq, peak, and delay time to the first maximum peak of the ACF were identified as significant factors for physiological responses to low-level impulsive sounds.
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- Yoshiharu Soeta
- Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan,*Correspondence: Yoshiharu Soeta, ✉
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- Research and Innovation Center, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Weise A, Grimm S, Maria Rimmele J, Schröger E. Auditory representations for long lasting sounds: Insights from event-related brain potentials and neural oscillations. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2023; 237:105221. [PMID: 36623340 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The basic features of short sounds, such as frequency and intensity including their temporal dynamics, are integrated in a unitary representation. Knowledge on how our brain processes long lasting sounds is scarce. We review research utilizing the Mismatch Negativity event-related potential and neural oscillatory activity for studying representations for long lasting simple versus complex sounds such as sinusoidal tones versus speech. There is evidence for a temporal constraint in the formation of auditory representations: Auditory edges like sound onsets within long lasting sounds open a temporal window of about 350 ms in which the sounds' dynamics are integrated into a representation, while information beyond that window contributes less to that representation. This integration window segments the auditory input into short chunks. We argue that the representations established in adjacent integration windows can be concatenated into an auditory representation of a long sound, thus, overcoming the temporal constraint.
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- Annekathrin Weise
- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany; Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York University, Max Planck Institute, Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, United States.
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- Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
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Jeon EK, Mussoi BS, Brown CJ, Abbas PJ. Acoustic Change Complex Recorded in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users. Audiol Neurootol 2022; 28:151-157. [PMID: 36450234 PMCID: PMC10227181 DOI: 10.1159/000527671] [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: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Expanding cochlear implant (CI) candidacy criteria and advances in electrode arrays and soft surgical techniques have increased the number of CI recipients who have residual low-frequency hearing. Objective measures such as obligatory cortical auditory-evoked potentials (CAEPs) may help clinicians make more tailored recommendations to recipients regarding optimal listening mode. As a step toward this goal, this study investigated how CAEPs measured from hybrid CI users differ in two listening modes: acoustic alone (A-alone) versus acoustic plus electric (A + E). METHODS Eight successful hybrid CI users participated in this study. Two CAEPs, the P1-N1-P2 and the acoustic change complex (ACC), were measured simultaneously in response to the onset and change of a series of different and spectrally complex acoustic signals, in each of the two listening modes (A-alone and A + E). We examined the effects of listening mode and stimulus type on the onset and ACC N1-P2 amplitudes and peak latencies. RESULTS ACC amplitudes in hybrid CI users significantly differed as a function of listening mode and stimulus type. ACC responses in A + E were larger than those in the A-alone mode. This was most evident for stimuli involving a change from low to high frequency. CONCLUSIONS Results of this study showed that the ACC varies as a function of listening mode and stimulus type. This finding suggests that the ACC can be used as a physiologic, objective measure of the benefit of hybrid CIs, potentially supporting clinicians in making clinical recommendations on individualized listening mode, or to document subjective preference for a given listening mode. Further research into this potential clinical application in a range of hybrid recipients and/or long electrode users who have residual low-frequency hearing is warranted.
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- Eun Kyung Jeon
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Saraç Kaya E, Türkyılmaz MD, Yaralı M. The evaluation of cochlear implant users’ acoustic change detection ability. HEARING, BALANCE AND COMMUNICATION 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/21695717.2022.2142390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Eylem Saraç Kaya
- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lokman Hekim University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Xie D, Luo J, Chao X, Li J, Liu X, Fan Z, Wang H, Xu L. Relationship Between the Ability to Detect Frequency Changes or Temporal Gaps and Speech Perception Performance in Post-lingual Cochlear Implant Users. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:904724. [PMID: 35757528 PMCID: PMC9213807 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.904724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Previous studies, using modulation stimuli, on the relative effects of frequency resolution and time resolution on CI users’ speech perception failed to reach a consistent conclusion. In this study, frequency change detection and temporal gap detection were used to investigate the frequency resolution and time resolution of CI users, respectively. Psychophysical and neurophysiological methods were used to simultaneously investigate the effects of frequency and time resolution on speech perception in post-lingual cochlear implant (CI) users. We investigated the effects of psychophysical results [frequency change detection threshold (FCDT), gap detection threshold (GDT)], and acoustic change complex (ACC) responses (evoked threshold, latency, or amplitude of ACC induced by frequency change or temporal gap) on speech perception [recognition rate of monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, sentences in quiet, and sentence recognition threshold (SRT) in noise]. Thirty-one adult post-lingual CI users of Mandarin Chinese were enrolled in the study. The stimuli used to induce ACCs to frequency changes were 800-ms pure tones (fundamental frequency was 1,000 Hz); the frequency change occurred at the midpoint of the tones, with six percentages of frequency changes (0, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50%). Temporal silences with different durations (0, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 ms) were inserted in the middle of the 800-ms white noise to induce ACCs evoked by temporal gaps. The FCDT and GDT were obtained by two 2-alternative forced-choice procedures. The results showed no significant correlation between the CI hearing threshold and speech perception in the study participants. In the multiple regression analysis of the influence of simultaneous psychophysical measures and ACC responses on speech perception, GDT significantly predicted every speech perception index, and the ACC amplitude evoked by the temporal gap significantly predicted the recognition of disyllabic words in quiet and SRT in noise. We conclude that when the ability to detect frequency changes and the temporal gap is considered simultaneously, the ability to detect frequency changes may have no significant effect on speech perception, but the ability to detect temporal gaps could significantly predict speech perception.
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- Dianzhao Xie
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Anderson CA, Cushing SL, Papsin BC, Gordon KA. Cortical imbalance following delayed restoration of bilateral hearing in deaf adolescents. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:3662-3679. [PMID: 35429083 PMCID: PMC9294307 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Unilateral auditory deprivation in early childhood can lead to cortical strengthening of inputs from the stimulated side, yet the impact of this on bilateral processing when inputs are later restored beyond an early sensitive period is unknown. To address this, we conducted a longitudinal study with 13 bilaterally profoundly deaf adolescents who received unilateral access to sound via a cochlear implant (CI) in their right ear in early childhood before receiving bilateral access to sound a decade later via a second CI in their left ear. Auditory‐evoked cortical responses to unilateral and bilateral stimulation were measured repeatedly using electroencephalogram from 1 week to 14 months after activation of their second CI. Early cortical responses from the newly implanted ear and bilateral stimulation were atypically lateralized to the left ipsilateral auditory cortex. Duration of unilateral deafness predicted an unexpectedly stronger representation of inputs from the newly implanted, compared to the first implanted ear, in left auditory cortex. Significant initial reductions in responses were observed, yet a left‐hemisphere bias and unequal weighting of inputs favoring the long‐term deaf ear did not converge to a balanced state observed in the binaurally developed system. Bilateral response enhancement was significantly reduced in left auditory cortex suggesting deficits in ipsilateral response inhibition of new, dominant, inputs during bilateral processing. These findings paradoxically demonstrate the adaptive capacity of the adolescent auditory system beyond an early sensitive period for bilateral input, as well as restrictions on its potential to fully reverse cortical imbalances driven by long‐term unilateral deafness.
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- Carly A. Anderson
- Archie's Cochlear Implant Laboratory The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada
- Neurosciences and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Archie's Cochlear Implant Laboratory The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada
- Neurosciences and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Vonck BM, van Heteren JA, Lammers MJ, de Jel DV, Schaake WA, van Zanten GA, Stokroos RJ, Versnel H. Cortical potentials evoked by tone frequency changes can predict speech perception in noise. Hear Res 2022; 420:108508. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2022.108508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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McGuire K, Firestone GM, Zhang N, Zhang F. The Acoustic Change Complex in Response to Frequency Changes and Its Correlation to Cochlear Implant Speech Outcomes. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:757254. [PMID: 34744668 PMCID: PMC8566680 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.757254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
One of the biggest challenges that face cochlear implant (CI) users is the highly variable hearing outcomes of implantation across patients. Since speech perception requires the detection of various dynamic changes in acoustic features (e.g., frequency, intensity, timing) in speech sounds, it is critical to examine the ability to detect the within-stimulus acoustic changes in CI users. The primary objective of this study was to examine the auditory event-related potential (ERP) evoked by the within-stimulus frequency changes (F-changes), one type of the acoustic change complex (ACC), in adult CI users, and its correlation to speech outcomes. Twenty-one adult CI users (29 individual CI ears) were tested with psychoacoustic frequency change detection tasks, speech tests including the Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant (CNC) word recognition, Arizona Biomedical Sentence Recognition in quiet and noise (AzBio-Q and AzBio-N), and the Digit-in-Noise (DIN) tests, and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. The stimuli for the psychoacoustic tests and EEG recordings were pure tones at three different base frequencies (0.25, 1, and 4 kHz) that contained a F-change at the midpoint of the tone. Results showed that the frequency change detection threshold (FCDT), ACC N1' latency, and P2' latency did not differ across frequencies (p > 0.05). ACC N1'-P2 amplitude was significantly larger for 0.25 kHz than for other base frequencies (p < 0.05). The mean N1' latency across three base frequencies was negatively correlated with CNC word recognition (r = -0.40, p < 0.05) and CNC phoneme (r = -0.40, p < 0.05), and positively correlated with mean FCDT (r = 0.46, p < 0.05). The P2' latency was positively correlated with DIN (r = 0.47, p < 0.05) and mean FCDT (r = 0.47, p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant correlation between N1'-P2' amplitude and speech outcomes (all ps > 0.05). Results of this study indicated that variability in CI speech outcomes assessed with the CNC, AzBio-Q, and DIN tests can be partially explained (approximately 16-21%) by the variability of cortical sensory encoding of F-changes reflected by the ACC.
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- Kelli McGuire
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Gransier R, Guérit F, Carlyon RP, Wouters J. Frequency following responses and rate change complexes in cochlear implant users. Hear Res 2021; 404:108200. [PMID: 33647574 PMCID: PMC8052190 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The upper limit of rate-based pitch perception and rate discrimination can differ substantially across cochlear implant (CI) users. One potential reason for this difference is the presence of a biological limitation on temporal encoding in the electrically-stimulated auditory pathway, which can be inherent to the electrical stimulation itself and/or to the degenerative processes associated with hearing loss. Electrophysiological measures, like the electrically-evoked frequency following response (eFFR) and auditory change complex (eACC), could potentially provide valuable insights in the temporal processing limitations at the level of the brainstem and cortex in the electrically-stimulated auditory pathway. Obtaining these neural responses, free from stimulation artifacts, is challenging, especially when the neural response is phase-locked to the stimulation rate, as is the case for the eFFR. In this study we investigated the feasibility of measuring eFFRs, free from stimulation artifacts, to stimulation rates ranging from 94 to 196 pulses per second (pps) and eACCs to pulse rate changes ranging from 36 to 108%, when stimulating in a monopolar configuration. A high-sampling rate EEG system was used to measure the electrophysiological responses in five CI users, and linear interpolation was applied to remove the stimulation artifacts from the EEG. With this approach, we were able to measure eFFRs for pulse rates up to 162 pps and eACCs to the different rate changes. Our results show that it is feasible to measure electrophysiological responses, free from stimulation artifacts, that could potentially be used as neural correlates for rate and pitch processing in CI users.
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- Robin Gransier
- KU Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, ExpORL, Herestraat 49, Box 721, Leuven 3000, Belgium.
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- Cambridge Hearing Group, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Hearing Group, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom
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- KU Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, ExpORL, Herestraat 49, Box 721, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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Soleimani M, Rouhbakhsh N, Rahbar N. Towards early intervention of hearing instruments using cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs): A systematic review. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2021; 144:110698. [PMID: 33839460 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2021.110698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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As a result of newborn hearing screening, hearing aids are usually prescribed and fitted by 2-3 months of age. However, the assessment data used for prescribing hearing aids in infants and toddlers are limited in quality and quantity. There is great interest in finding appropriate physiological measures that can be help to facilitate and improve the management process of hearing impaired children. It seems that cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) can provide information before it is possible to obtain reliable information from behavioral assessment procedures. This article will review the studies conducted in this area during the past15 years to determine the advantages, disadvantages and future research areas of CAEPs as an objective method in the management of hearing impaired children.
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- Marjan Soleimani
- Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran.
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Yoon YS, Boren CM, Diaz B. Effect of Realistic Test Conditions on Spectral and Temporal Processing in Normal-Hearing Listeners. Am J Audiol 2021; 30:160-169. [PMID: 33621127 DOI: 10.1044/2020_aja-20-00120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Purpose To measure the effect of testing conditions (in the soundproof booth vs. quiet room), test order, and number of test sessions on spectral and temporal processing in normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Method Thirty-two adult NH listeners participated in the three experiments. For all three experiments, the stimuli were presented to the left ear at the subjects' most comfortable level through headphones. All tests were administered in an adaptive three-alternative forced-choice paradigm. Experiment 1 was designed to compare the effect of soundproof booth and quiet room test conditions on amplitude modulation detection threshold and modulation frequency discrimination threshold with each of the five modulation frequencies. Experiment 2 was designed to compare the effect of two test orders on the frequency discrimination thresholds under the quiet room test conditions. The thresholds were first measured in the ascending and descending order of four pure tones, and then with counterbalanced order. For Experiment 3, the amplitude discrimination threshold under the quiet room testing condition was assessed 3 times to determine the effect of the number of test sessions. Then the thresholds were compared over the sessions. Results Results showed no significant effect of test environment. The test order is an important variable for frequency discrimination, particularly between piano tunes and pure tones. Results also show no significant difference across test sessions. Conclusions These results suggest that a controlled test environment may not be required in spectral and temporal assessment for NH listeners. Under the quiet test environment, a single outcome measure is sufficient, but test orders should be counterbalanced.
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- Yang-Soo Yoon
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Baylor University, Waco, TX
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- Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock
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Cortical potentials evoked by tone frequency changes compared to frequency discrimination and speech perception: Thresholds in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects. Hear Res 2020; 401:108154. [PMID: 33387905 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.108154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Revised: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Frequency discrimination ability varies within the normal hearing population, partially explained by factors such as musical training and age, and it deteriorates with hearing loss. Frequency discrimination, while essential for several auditory tasks, is not routinely measured in clinical setting. This study investigates cortical auditory evoked potentials in response to frequency changes, known as acoustic change complexes (ACCs), and explores their value as a clinically applicable objective measurement of frequency discrimination. In 12 normal-hearing and 13 age-matched hearing-impaired subjects, ACC thresholds were recorded at 4 base frequencies (0.5, 1, 2, 4 kHz) and compared to psychophysically assessed frequency discrimination thresholds. ACC thresholds had a moderate to strong correlation to psychophysical frequency discrimination thresholds. In addition, ACC thresholds increased with hearing loss and higher ACC thresholds were associated with poorer speech perception in noise. The ACC threshold in response to a frequency change therefore holds promise as an objective clinical measurement in hearing impairment, indicative of frequency discrimination ability and related to speech perception. However, recordings as conducted in the current study are relatively time consuming. The current clinical application would be most relevant in cases where behavioral testing is unreliable.
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Cortical processing of location and frequency changes of sounds in normal hearing listeners. Hear Res 2020; 400:108110. [PMID: 33220506 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.108110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sounds we hear in our daily life contain changes in the acoustic features (e.g., frequency, intensity, and duration or "what" information) and/or changes in location ("where" information). The purpose of this study was to examine the cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) to the change within a stimulus, the acoustic change complex (ACC), in frequency (F) and location (L) of the sound in normal hearing listeners. Fifteen right-handed young normal hearing listeners participated in the electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. The acoustic stimuli were pure tones (base frequency at 250 Hz) of 1 s, with a perceivable change either in location (L, 180°), frequency (F, 5% and 50%), or both location and frequency (L+F) in the middle of the tone. Additionally, the 250 Hz tone of 1 sec without any change was used as a reference. The participants were asked to listen passively to the stimuli and not to move their heads during the testing. Compared to the reference tone, by which only the onset-CAEP was elicited, the tones containing changes (L, F, or L+F) elicited both onset-CAEP and the ACC. The waveform analysis of ACCs from the vertex electrode (electrode Cz) showed that, larger sound changes evoked larger peak amplitudes [e.g., (L+50%F)- > L-change; (L+50%F)- > 5%F-change] and shorter the peak latencies ([(L+5%F)- < 5%F-change; 50%F- < 5%F-change; (L+50%F)- < 5%F-change] . The current density patterns for the ACC N1' peak displayed some differences between L-change vs. F-change, supporting different cortical processing for "where" and "what" information of the sound; regardless of the nature of the sound change, larger changes evoked a stronger activation than smaller changes [e.g., L- > 5%F-change; (L+5%F)- > 5%F-change; 50%F- > 5%F-change] in frontal lobe regions including the cingulate gyrus, medial frontal gyrus (MFG), superior frontal gyrus (SFG), the limbic lobe cingulate gyrus, and the parietal lobe postcentral gyrus. The results suggested that sound change-detection involves memory-based acoustic comparison (the neural encoding for the sound change vs. neural encoding for the pre-change stimulus stored in memory) and involuntary attention switch.
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Lee J, Han JH, Lee HJ. Long-Term Musical Training Alters Auditory Cortical Activity to the Frequency Change. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:329. [PMID: 32973478 PMCID: PMC7471721 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: The ability to detect frequency variation is a fundamental skill necessary for speech perception. It is known that musical expertise is associated with a range of auditory perceptual skills, including discriminating frequency change, which suggests the neural encoding of spectral features can be enhanced by musical training. In this study, we measured auditory cortical responses to frequency change in musicians to examine the relationships between N1/P2 responses and behavioral performance/musical training. Methods: Behavioral and electrophysiological data were obtained from professional musicians and age-matched non-musician participants. Behavioral data included frequency discrimination detection thresholds for no threshold-equalizing noise (TEN), +5, 0, and -5 signal-to-noise ratio settings. Auditory-evoked responses were measured using a 64-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) system in response to frequency changes in ongoing pure tones consisting of 250 and 4,000 Hz, and the magnitudes of frequency change were 10%, 25% or 50% from the base frequencies. N1 and P2 amplitudes and latencies as well as dipole source activation in the left and right hemispheres were measured for each condition. Results: Compared to the non-musician group, behavioral thresholds in the musician group were lower for frequency discrimination in quiet conditions only. The scalp-recorded N1 amplitudes were modulated as a function of frequency change. P2 amplitudes in the musician group were larger than in the non-musician group. Dipole source analysis showed that P2 dipole activity to frequency changes was lateralized to the right hemisphere, with greater activity in the musician group regardless of the hemisphere side. Additionally, N1 amplitudes to frequency changes were positively related to behavioral thresholds for frequency discrimination while enhanced P2 amplitudes were associated with a longer duration of musical training. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that auditory cortical potentials evoked by frequency change are related to behavioral thresholds for frequency discrimination in musicians. Larger P2 amplitudes in musicians compared to non-musicians reflects musical training-induced neural plasticity.
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- Jihyun Lee
- Laboratory of Brain & Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, South Korea
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- Laboratory of Brain & Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, South Korea
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- Laboratory of Brain & Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, South Korea.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Anyang, South Korea
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Uhrig S, Perkis A, Behne DM. Effects of speech transmission quality on sensory processing indicated by the cortical auditory evoked potential. J Neural Eng 2020; 17:046021. [PMID: 32422617 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ab93e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Degradations of transmitted speech have been shown to affect perceptual and cognitive processing in human listeners, as indicated by the P3 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP). However, research suggests that previously observed P3 modulations might actually be traced back to earlier neural modulations in the time range of the P1-N1-P2 complex of the cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP). This study investigates whether auditory sensory processing, as reflected by the P1-N1-P2 complex, is already systematically altered by speech quality degradations. APPROACH Electrophysiological data from two studies were analyzed to examine effects of speech transmission quality (high-quality, noisy, bandpass-filtered) for spoken words on amplitude and latency parameters of individual P1, N1 and P2 components. MAIN RESULTS In the resultant ERP waveforms, an initial P1-N1-P2 manifested at stimulus onset, while a second N1-P2 occurred within the ongoing stimulus. Bandpass-filtered versus high-quality word stimuli evoked a faster and larger initial N1 as well as a reduced initial P2, hence exhibiting effects as early as the sensory stage of auditory information processing. SIGNIFICANCE The results corroborate the existence of systematic quality-related modulations in the initial N1-P2, which may potentially have carried over into P3 modulations demonstrated by previous studies. In future psychophysiological speech quality assessments, rigorous control procedures are needed to ensure the validity of P3-based indication of speech transmission quality. An alternative CAEP-based assessment approach is discussed, which promises to be more efficient and less constrained than the established approach based on P3.
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- Stefan Uhrig
- Quality and Usability Lab, Technische Universität Berlin, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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Liang C, Wenstrup LH, Samy RN, Xiang J, Zhang F. The Effect of Side of Implantation on the Cortical Processing of Frequency Changes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:368. [PMID: 32410947 PMCID: PMC7201306 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Cochlear implants (CI) are widely used in children and adults to restore hearing function. However, CI outcomes are vary widely. The affected factors have not been well understood. It is well known that the right and left hemispheres play different roles in auditory perception in adult normal hearing listeners. It is unknown how the implantation side may affect the outcomes of CIs. In this study, the effect of the implantation side on how the brain processes frequency changes within a sound was examined in 12 right-handed adult CI users. The outcomes of CIs were assessed with behaviorally measured frequency change detection threshold (FCDT), which has been reported to significantly affect CI speech performance. The brain activation and regions were also examined using acoustic change complex (ACC, a type of cortical potential evoked by acoustic changes within a stimulus), on which the waveform analysis and the standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) were performed. CI users showed activation in the temporal lobe and non-temporal areas, such as the frontal lobe. Right-ear CIs could more efficiently activate the contralateral hemisphere compared to left-ear CIs. For right-ear CIs, the increased activation in the contralateral temporal lobe together with the decreased activation in the contralateral frontal lobe was correlated with good performance of frequency change detection (lower FCDTs). Such a trend was not found in left-ear CIs. These results suggest that the implantation side may significantly affect neuroplasticity patterns in adults.
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- Chun Liang
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Child Psychiatry and Rehabilitation, Affiliated Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Firestone GM, McGuire K, Liang C, Zhang N, Blankenship CM, Xiang J, Zhang F. A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Attentive Music Listening on Cochlear Implant Users' Speech Perception, Quality of Life, and Behavioral and Objective Measures of Frequency Change Detection. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:110. [PMID: 32296318 PMCID: PMC7136537 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Introduction Most cochlear implant (CI) users have difficulty in listening tasks that rely strongly on perception of frequency changes (e.g., speech perception in noise, musical melody perception, etc.). Some previous studies using behavioral or subjective assessments have shown that short-term music training can benefit CI users’ perception of music and speech. Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings may reveal the neural basis for music training benefits in CI users. Objective To examine the effects of short-term music training on CI hearing outcomes using a comprehensive test battery of subjective evaluation, behavioral tests, and EEG measures. Design Twelve adult CI users were recruited for a home-based music training program that focused on attentive listening to music genres and materials that have an emphasis on melody. The participants used a music streaming program (i.e., Pandora) downloaded onto personal electronic devices for training. The participants attentively listened to music through a direct audio cable or through Bluetooth streaming. The training schedule was 40 min/session/day, 5 days/week, for either 4 or 8 weeks. The pre-training and post-training tests included: hearing thresholds, Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12) questionnaire, psychoacoustic tests of frequency change detection threshold (FCDT), speech recognition tests (CNC words, AzBio sentences, and QuickSIN), and EEG responses to tones that contained different magnitudes of frequency changes. Results All participants except one finished the 4- or 8-week training, resulting in a dropout rate of 8.33%. Eleven participants performed all tests except for two who did not participate in EEG tests. Results showed a significant improvement in the FCDTs as well as performance on CNC and QuickSIN after training (p < 0.05), but no significant improvement in SSQ scores (p > 0.05). Results of the EEG tests showed larger post-training cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) in seven of the nine participants, suggesting a better cortical processing of both stimulus onset and within-stimulus frequency changes. Conclusion These preliminary data suggest that extensive, focused music listening can improve frequency perception and speech perception in CI users. Further studies that include a larger sample size and control groups are warranted to determine the efficacy of short-term music training in CI users.
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- Gabrielle M Firestone
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Han JH, Dimitrijevic A. Acoustic Change Responses to Amplitude Modulation in Cochlear Implant Users: Relationships to Speech Perception. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:124. [PMID: 32132897 PMCID: PMC7040081 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objectives The ability to understand speech is highly variable in people with cochlear implants (CIs) and to date, there are no objective measures that identify the root of this discrepancy. However, behavioral measures of temporal processing such as the temporal modulation transfer function (TMTF) has previously found to be related to vowel and consonant identification in CI users. The acoustic change complex (ACC) is a cortical auditory-evoked potential response that can be elicited by a “change” in an ongoing stimulus. In this study, the ACC elicited by amplitude modulation (AM) change was related to measures of speech perception as well as the amplitude detection threshold in CI users. Methods Ten CI users (mean age: 50 years old) participated in this study. All subjects participated in behavioral tests that included both speech and amplitude modulation detection to obtain a TMTF. CI users were categorized as “good” (n = 6) or “poor” (n = 4) based on their speech-in noise score (<50%). 64-channel electroencephalographic recordings were conducted while CI users passively listened to AM change sounds that were presented in a free field setting. The AM change stimulus was white noise with four different AM rates (4, 40, 100, and 300 Hz). Results Behavioral results show that AM detection thresholds in CI users were higher compared to the normal-hearing (NH) group for all AM rates. The electrophysiological data suggest that N1 responses were significantly decreased in amplitude and their latencies were increased in CI users compared to NH controls. In addition, the N1 latencies for the poor CI performers were delayed compared to the good CI performers. The N1 latency for 40 Hz AM was correlated with various speech perception measures. Conclusion Our data suggest that the ACC to AM change provides an objective index of speech perception abilities that can be used to explain some of the variation in speech perception observed among CI users.
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- Ji-Hye Han
- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Childs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Laboratory of Brain & Cognitive Sciences for Convergence Medicine, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea
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- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Childs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Brückmann M, Garcia MV. Mismatch Negativity Occurrence with Verbal and Nonverbal Stimuli in Normal-Hearing Adults. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2020; 24:e182-e190. [PMID: 32256839 PMCID: PMC6986952 DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1697990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Introduction
The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a long-latency auditory evoked potential related to a passive elicited auditory event.
Objective
To verify the occurrence of MMN with different stimuli, to describe reference values in normal-hearing adults with verbal and nonverbal stimuli and to compare them with each other, besides analyzing the latency, area, and amplitude regarding gender and between the ears.
Method
Normal-hearing individuals, aged between 18 and 59 years old, participated in the study. As inclusion criterion in the study, all of them underwent tone threshold audiometry, logoaudiometry, tympanometry, and the Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI) test, and later the MMN with 4 different stimuli, being 2 verbal (da/ta and ba/di) and 2 nonverbal stimuli (750/1,000Hz and 750/4,000Hz), which are considered stimuli with low and high contrast.
Results
A total of 90 individuals composed the sample, being 39 males and 51 females, with an average age of 26.9 years old. In the analysis of the latency, amplitude, and area of the four stimuli between the ears, they were not considered statistically different. There was a significant difference between all of the stimuli in terms of latency, amplitude and area, with the highest latency found in da/ta, and the greatest amplitude and area in ba/di. Regarding gender, there was only difference in the latency of the da/ta stimulus.
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The da/ta and 750/1,000Hz stimuli elicited the most MMN in the population of normal-hearing adults. Among the genders, there was difference only regarding the latency of the verbal stimulus da/ta, and there was no difference between the ears.
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- Mirtes Brückmann
- Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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Zhang F, Underwood G, McGuire K, Liang C, Moore DR, Fu QJ. Frequency change detection and speech perception in cochlear implant users. Hear Res 2019; 379:12-20. [PMID: 31035223 PMCID: PMC6571168 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2019.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Dynamic frequency changes in sound provide critical cues for speech perception. Most previous studies examining frequency discrimination in cochlear implant (CI) users have employed behavioral tasks in which target and reference tones (differing in frequency) are presented statically in separate time intervals. Participants are required to identify the target frequency by comparing stimuli across these time intervals. However, perceiving dynamic frequency changes in speech requires detection of within-interval frequency change. This study explored the relationship between detection of within-interval frequency changes and speech perception performance of CI users. Frequency change detection thresholds (FCDTs) were measured in 20 adult CI users using a 3-alternative forced-choice (3AFC) procedure. Stimuli were 1-sec pure tones (base frequencies at 0.25, 1, 4 kHz) with frequency changes occurring 0.5 s after the tone onset. Speech tests were 1) Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant (CNC) monosyllabic word recognition, 2) Arizona Biomedical Sentence Recognition (AzBio) in Quiet, 3) AzBio in Noise (AzBio-N, +10 dB signal-to-noise/SNR ratio), and 4) Digits-in-noise (DIN). Participants' subjective satisfaction with the CI was obtained. Results showed that correlations between FCDTs and speech perception were all statistically significant. The satisfaction level of CI use was not related to FCDTs, after controlling for major demographic factors. DIN speech reception thresholds were significantly correlated to AzBio-N scores. The current findings suggest that the ability to detect within-interval frequency changes may play an important role in speech perception performance of CI users. FCDT and DIN can serve as simple and rapid tests that require no or minimal linguistic background for the prediction of CI speech outcomes.
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- Fawen Zhang
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Vonck BMD, Lammers MJW, van der Waals M, van Zanten GA, Versnel H. Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials in Response to Frequency Changes with Varied Magnitude, Rate, and Direction. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2019; 20:489-498. [PMID: 31168759 PMCID: PMC6797694 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-019-00726-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Recent literature on cortical auditory evoked potentials has focused on correlations with hearing performance with the aim to develop an objective clinical tool. However, cortical responses depend on the type of stimulus and choice of stimulus parameters. This study investigates cortical auditory evoked potentials to sound changes, so-called acoustic change complexes (ACC), and the effects of varying three stimulus parameters. In twelve normal-hearing subjects, ACC waveforms were evoked by presenting frequency changes with varying magnitude, rate, and direction. The N1 amplitude and latency were strongly affected by magnitude, which is known from the literature. Importantly, both of these N1 variables were also significantly affected by both rate and direction of the frequency change. Larger and earlier N1 peaks were evoked by increasing the magnitude and rate of the frequency change and with downward rather than upward direction of the frequency change. The P2 amplitude increased with magnitude and depended, to a lesser extent, on rate of the frequency change while direction had no effect on this peak. The N1–P2 interval was not affected by any of the stimulus parameters. In conclusion, the ACC is most strongly affected by magnitude and also substantially by rate and direction of the change. These stimulus dependencies should be considered in choosing stimuli for ACCs as objective clinical measure of hearing performance.
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- Bernard M D Vonck
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.02.531, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.02.531, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,BC Rotary Hearing and Balance Centre at St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.02.531, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.02.531, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.02.531, P.O. Box 85500, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands. .,UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Event-related potentials to single-cycle binaural beats and diotic amplitude modulation of a tone. Exp Brain Res 2019; 237:1931-1945. [PMID: 31111175 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-019-05562-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
When two tones with slightly different frequencies are dichotically presented, binaural beats (BBs) are experienced. BBs resulting from the cycling change in interaural phase difference elicit electroencephalographic responses. Because they repeat at short periods, allowing poor recovery of the cortical responses, these steady-state responses have small amplitudes, and their various wave components intermingle and might mask each other. Using single-cycle BBs separated by relatively long inter-onset intervals would be a solution, but introducing a transient interaural frequency shift requires response subtraction which may not be acceptable for non-additive brain responses. The proposed stimulation method employs transient and monaurally subthreshold frequency shifts in opposite directions in the two ears to produce single-cycle BBs of a 250 Hz tone. These shifts are perceived as distinct BBs when presented dichotically, but remain subthreshold when presented monotically. Therefore, no frequency-shift response is elicited, and the specific BB response is obtained with no need for waveform subtraction. We recorded from 19 normal hearing participants the event-related potentials (ERPs) to single-cycle BBs and also to temporary diotic amplitude modulation (AM) with matched perceptual salience. The ERPs to single-cycle BBs presented at 2 s inter-onset intervals had N1-P2 responses with up to seven times larger amplitudes than the conventional steady-state BB responses in the literature. Significant differences were found between the scalp potential distributions of the N1 responses to BB and AM stimuli, suggesting that the cortical sites, where envelope-based level processing and temporal fine structure-based spatial processing of the stimulus take place, are not totally overlapped.
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Vanheusden FJ, Chesnaye MA, Simpson DM, Bell SL. Envelope frequency following responses are stronger for high-pass than low-pass filtered vowels. Int J Audiol 2019; 58:355-362. [DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2018.1562243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Frederique J. Vanheusden
- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Nottingham, UK
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- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Liang C, Houston LM, Samy RN, Abedelrehim LMI, Zhang F. Cortical Processing of Frequency Changes Reflected by the Acoustic Change Complex in Adult Cochlear Implant Users. Audiol Neurootol 2018; 23:152-164. [PMID: 30300882 DOI: 10.1159/000492170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine neural substrates of frequency change detection in cochlear implant (CI) recipients using the acoustic change complex (ACC), a type of cortical auditory evoked potential elicited by acoustic changes in an ongoing stimulus. A psychoacoustic test and electroencephalographic recording were administered in 12 postlingually deafened adult CI users. The stimuli were pure tones containing different magnitudes of upward frequency changes. Results showed that the frequency change detection threshold (FCDT) was 3.79% in the CI users, with a large variability. The ACC N1' latency was significantly correlated with the FCDT and the clinically collected speech perception score. The results suggested that the ACC evoked by frequency changes can serve as a useful objective tool in assessing frequency change detection capability and predicting speech perception performance in CI users.
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- Chun Liang
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.,Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.,Audiology Department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Presacco A, Middlebrooks JC. Tone-Evoked Acoustic Change Complex (ACC) Recorded in a Sedated Animal Model. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2018; 19:451-466. [PMID: 29749573 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-018-0673-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The acoustic change complex (ACC) is a scalp-recorded cortical evoked potential complex generated in response to changes (e.g., frequency, amplitude) in an auditory stimulus. The ACC has been well studied in humans, but to our knowledge, no animal model has been evaluated. In particular, it was not known whether the ACC could be recorded under the conditions of sedation that likely would be necessary for recordings from animals. For that reason, we tested the feasibility of recording ACC from sedated cats in response to changes of frequency and amplitude of pure-tone stimuli. Cats were sedated with ketamine and acepromazine, and subdermal needle electrodes were used to record electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. Tones were presented from a small loudspeaker located near the right ear. Continuous tones alternated at 500-ms intervals between two frequencies or two levels. Neurometric functions were created by recording neural response amplitudes while systematically varying the magnitude of steps in frequency centered in octave frequency around 2, 4, 8, and 16 kHz, all at 75 dB SPL, or in decibel level around 75 dB SPL tested at 4 and 8 kHz. The ACC could be recorded readily under this ketamine/azepromazine sedation. In contrast, ACC could not be recorded reliably under any level of isoflurane anesthesia that was tested. The minimum frequency (expressed as Weber fractions (df/f)) or level steps (expressed in dB) needed to elicit ACC fell in the range of previous thresholds reported in animal psychophysical tests of discrimination. The success in recording ACC in sedated animals suggests that the ACC will be a useful tool for evaluation of other aspects of auditory acuity in normal hearing and, presumably, in electrical cochlear stimulation, especially for novel stimulation modes that are not yet feasible in humans.
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- Alessandro Presacco
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-5310, USA.
- Center for Hearing Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-5310, USA
- Center for Hearing Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Kang S, Woo J, Park H, Brown CJ, Hong SH, Moon IJ. Objective Test of Cochlear Dead Region: Electrophysiologic Approach using Acoustic Change Complex. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3645. [PMID: 29483598 PMCID: PMC5832147 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21754-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The goal of this study was to develop an objective and neurophysiologic method of identifying the presence of cochlear dead region (CDR) by combining acoustic change complex (ACC) responses with threshold-equalizing noise (TEN) test. The goal of the first study was to confirm whether ACC could be evoked with TEN stimuli and to also optimize the test conditions. The goal of the second study was to determine whether the TEN-ACC test is capable of detecting CDR(s). The ACC responses were successfully recorded from all study participants. Both behaviorally and electrophysiologically obtained masked thresholds (TEN threshold and TEN-ACC threshold) were similar and below 10 and 12 dB SNR in NH listeners, respectively. HI listeners were divided into HI (non-CDR) and CDR groups based on the behavioral TEN test. For the non-CDR group, TEN-ACC thresholds were below 12 dB which were similar to NH listeners. However, for the CDR group, TEN-ACC thresholds were significantly higher (≥12 dB SNR) than those in the NH and HI groups, indicating that CDR(s) can be objectively detected using the ACC. Results of this study demonstrate that it is possible to detect the presence of CDR using an electrophysiologic method.
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- Soojin Kang
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.,School of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Departments of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Korea.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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Weise A, Schröger E, Horváth J. The detection of higher-order acoustic transitions is reflected in the N1 ERP. Psychophysiology 2018; 55:e13063. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Annekathrin Weise
- Institut für Psychologie; Universität Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
- Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, Division of Physiological Psychology; Salzburg Austria
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- Institut für Psychologie; Universität Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology; Budapest Hungary
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Kalaiah MK. Acoustic change complex for frequency changes. HEARING, BALANCE AND COMMUNICATION 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/21695717.2017.1421813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Mohan Kumar Kalaiah
- Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
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Liang C, Earl B, Thompson I, Whitaker K, Cahn S, Xiang J, Fu QJ, Zhang F. Musicians Are Better than Non-musicians in Frequency Change Detection: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence. Front Neurosci 2016; 10:464. [PMID: 27826221 PMCID: PMC5078501 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine if musicians have a better ability to detect frequency changes under quiet and noisy conditions; (2) to use the acoustic change complex (ACC), a type of electroencephalographic (EEG) response, to understand the neural substrates of musician vs. non-musician difference in frequency change detection abilities. Methods: Twenty-four young normal hearing listeners (12 musicians and 12 non-musicians) participated. All participants underwent psychoacoustic frequency detection tests with three types of stimuli: tones (base frequency at 160 Hz) containing frequency changes (Stim 1), tones containing frequency changes masked by low-level noise (Stim 2), and tones containing frequency changes masked by high-level noise (Stim 3). The EEG data were recorded using tones (base frequency at 160 and 1200 Hz, respectively) containing different magnitudes of frequency changes (0, 5, and 50% changes, respectively). The late-latency evoked potential evoked by the onset of the tones (onset LAEP or N1-P2 complex) and that evoked by the frequency change contained in the tone (the acoustic change complex or ACC or N1′-P2′ complex) were analyzed. Results: Musicians significantly outperformed non-musicians in all stimulus conditions. The ACC and onset LAEP showed similarities and differences. Increasing the magnitude of frequency change resulted in increased ACC amplitudes. ACC measures were found to be significantly different between musicians (larger P2′ amplitude) and non-musicians for the base frequency of 160 Hz but not 1200 Hz. Although the peak amplitude in the onset LAEP appeared to be larger and latency shorter in musicians than in non-musicians, the difference did not reach statistical significance. The amplitude of the onset LAEP is significantly correlated with that of the ACC for the base frequency of 160 Hz. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that musicians do perform better than non-musicians in detecting frequency changes in quiet and noisy conditions. The ACC and onset LAEP may involve different but overlapping neural mechanisms. Significance: This is the first study using the ACC to examine music-training effects. The ACC measures provide an objective tool for documenting musical training effects on frequency detection.
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- Chun Liang
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Composition, Musicology, and Theory, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Kalaiah MK, Shastri U. Cortical Auditory Event Related Potentials (P300) for Frequency Changing Dynamic Tones. J Audiol Otol 2016; 20:22-30. [PMID: 27144230 PMCID: PMC4853895 DOI: 10.7874/jao.2016.20.1.22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2015] [Revised: 12/11/2015] [Accepted: 01/29/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES P300 has been studied with a variety of stimuli. However, the nature of P300 has not been investigated for deviant stimuli which change its characteristics from standard stimuli after a period of time from onset. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Nine young adults with normal hearing participated in the study. The P300 was elicited using an oddball paradigm, the probability of standard and deviant stimuli was 80% and 20% respectively. Six stimuli were used to elicit P300, it included two pure-tones (1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz) and four tone-complexes (tones with frequency changes). Among these stimuli, 1,000 Hz tone served as standard while others served as deviant stimuli. The P300 was recorded in five separate blocks, with one of the deviant stimuli as target in each block. Electroencephalographic was recorded from electrode sites Fz, Cz, C3, C4, and Pz. Latency and amplitude of components of the cortical auditory evoked potentials were measured at Cz. RESULTS Waveforms obtained in the present study shows that, all the deviant stimuli elicited obligatory P1-N1-P2 for stimulus onset. 2,000 Hz deviant tone elicited P300 at a latency of 300 ms. While, tone-complexes elicited acoustic change complex (ACC) for frequency changes and finally elicited P300 at a latency of 600 ms. In addition, the results showed shorter latency and larger amplitude ACC and P300 for rising tone-complexes compared to falling tone-complexes. CONCLUSIONS Tone-complexes elicited distinct waveforms compared to 2,000 Hz deviant tone. Rising tone-complexes which had an increase in frequency elicited shorter latency and larger amplitude responses, which could be attributed to perceptual bias for frequency changes.
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- Mohan Kumar Kalaiah
- Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Kasturba Medical College (Manipal University), Mangalore, Karnataka, India
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- NITTE Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
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Thompson EC, Woodruff Carr K, White-Schwoch T, Tierney A, Nicol T, Kraus N. Hemispheric Asymmetry of Endogenous Neural Oscillations in Young Children: Implications for Hearing Speech In Noise. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19737. [PMID: 26804355 PMCID: PMC4726126 DOI: 10.1038/srep19737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Speech signals contain information in hierarchical time scales, ranging from short-duration (e.g., phonemes) to long-duration cues (e.g., syllables, prosody). A theoretical framework to understand how the brain processes this hierarchy suggests that hemispheric lateralization enables specialized tracking of acoustic cues at different time scales, with the left and right hemispheres sampling at short (25 ms; 40 Hz) and long (200 ms; 5 Hz) periods, respectively. In adults, both speech-evoked and endogenous cortical rhythms are asymmetrical: low-frequency rhythms predominate in right auditory cortex, and high-frequency rhythms in left auditory cortex. It is unknown, however, whether endogenous resting state oscillations are similarly lateralized in children. We investigated cortical oscillations in children (3–5 years; N = 65) at rest and tested our hypotheses that this temporal asymmetry is evident early in life and facilitates recognition of speech in noise. We found a systematic pattern of increasing leftward asymmetry for higher frequency oscillations; this pattern was more pronounced in children who better perceived words in noise. The observed connection between left-biased cortical oscillations in phoneme-relevant frequencies and speech-in-noise perception suggests hemispheric specialization of endogenous oscillatory activity may support speech processing in challenging listening environments, and that this infrastructure is present during early childhood.
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- Elaine C Thompson
- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Neurobiology &Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.,Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Folyi T, Liesefeld HR, Wentura D. Attentional enhancement for positive and negative tones at an early stage of auditory processing. Biol Psychol 2015; 114:23-32. [PMID: 26678665 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Revised: 12/03/2015] [Accepted: 12/04/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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We report an event-related potential (ERP) study based on the hypothesis that valenced (i.e., positive and/or negative) tones are prioritized over neutral ones at an early, perceptual stage of auditory processing. In order to avoid perceptual confounds, we induced valence experimentally during a learning phase by assigning positive, negative, and neutral valences to tone-frequencies in a balanced design. In a subsequent test phase, EEG was recorded while these tones were entirely task-irrelevant. The amplitude of the auditory N1 was increased for valenced compared with neutral tones, indicating enhanced attention. While behavioral results of the learning phase, and both implicit and explicit measures of tone evaluation indicated differentiation between positive and negative valence, there was no such differentiation on the N1 amplitude. Our results suggest that it is the general relevance of the valenced tones that governs early attentional processes.
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- Tímea Folyi
- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Han JH, Dimitrijevic A. Acoustic change responses to amplitude modulation: a method to quantify cortical temporal processing and hemispheric asymmetry. Front Neurosci 2015; 9:38. [PMID: 25717291 PMCID: PMC4324071 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective: Sound modulation is a critical temporal cue for the perception of speech and environmental sounds. To examine auditory cortical responses to sound modulation, we developed an acoustic change stimulus involving amplitude modulation (AM) of ongoing noise. The AM transitions in this stimulus evoked an acoustic change complex (ACC) that was examined parametrically in terms of rate and depth of modulation and hemispheric symmetry. Methods: Auditory cortical potentials were recorded from 64 scalp electrodes during passive listening in two conditions: (1) ACC from white noise to 4, 40, 300 Hz AM, with varying AM depths of 100, 50, 25% lasting 1 s and (2) 1 s AM noise bursts at the same modulation rate. Behavioral measures included AM detection from an attend ACC condition and AM depth thresholds (i.e., a temporal modulation transfer function, TMTF). Results: The N1 response of the ACC was large to 4 and 40 Hz and small to the 300 Hz AM. In contrast, the opposite pattern was observed with bursts of AM showing larger responses with increases in AM rate. Brain source modeling showed significant hemispheric asymmetry such that 4 and 40 Hz ACC responses were dominated by right and left hemispheres respectively. Conclusion: N1 responses to the ACC resembled a low pass filter shape similar to a behavioral TMTF. In the ACC paradigm, the only stimulus parameter that changes is AM and therefore the N1 response provides an index for this AM change. In contrast, an AM burst stimulus contains both AM and level changes and is likely dominated by the rise time of the stimulus. The hemispheric differences are consistent with the asymmetric sampling in time hypothesis suggesting that the different hemispheres preferentially sample acoustic time across different time windows. Significance: The ACC provides a novel approach to studying temporal processing at the level of cortex and provides further evidence of hemispheric specialization for fast and slow stimuli.
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- Ji Hye Han
- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Mihajloski T, Bohorquez J, Özdamar Ö. Effects of single cycle binaural beat duration on auditory evoked potentials. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015; 2014:4587-90. [PMID: 25571013 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6944645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Binaural beat (BB) illusions are experienced as continuous central pulsations when two sounds with slightly different frequencies are delivered to each ear. It has been shown that steady-state auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) to BBs can be captured and investigated. The authors recently developed a new method of evoking transient AEPs to binaural beats using frequency modulated stimuli. This methodology was able to create single BBs in predetermined intervals with varying carrier frequencies. This study examines the effects of the BB duration and the frequency modulating component of the stimulus on the binaural beats and their evoked potentials. Normal hearing subjects were tested with a set of four durations (25, 50, 100, and 200 ms) with two stimulation configurations, binaural dichotic (binaural beats) and diotic (frequency modulation). The results obtained from the study showed that out of the given durations, the 100 ms beat, was capable of evoking the largest amplitude responses. The frequency modulation effect showed a decrease in peak amplitudes with increasing beat duration until their complete disappearance at 200 ms. Even though, at 200 ms, the frequency modulation effects were not present, the binaural beats were still perceived and captured as evoked potentials.
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Bardy F, McMahon CM, Yau SH, Johnson BW. Deconvolution of magnetic acoustic change complex (mACC). Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:2220-2231. [PMID: 24704142 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Revised: 03/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to design a novel experimental approach to investigate the morphological characteristics of auditory cortical responses elicited by rapidly changing synthesized speech sounds. METHODS Six sound-evoked magnetoencephalographic (MEG) responses were measured to a synthesized train of speech sounds using the vowels /e/ and /u/ in 17 normal hearing young adults. Responses were measured to: (i) the onset of the speech train, (ii) an F0 increment; (iii) an F0 decrement; (iv) an F2 decrement; (v) an F2 increment; and (vi) the offset of the speech train using short (jittered around 135ms) and long (1500ms) stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). The least squares (LS) deconvolution technique was used to disentangle the overlapping MEG responses in the short SOA condition only. RESULTS Comparison between the morphology of the recovered cortical responses in the short and long SOAs conditions showed high similarity, suggesting that the LS deconvolution technique was successful in disentangling the MEG waveforms. Waveform latencies and amplitudes were different for the two SOAs conditions and were influenced by the spectro-temporal properties of the sound sequence. The magnetic acoustic change complex (mACC) for the short SOA condition showed significantly lower amplitudes and shorter latencies compared to the long SOA condition. The F0 transition showed a larger reduction in amplitude from long to short SOA compared to the F2 transition. Lateralization of the cortical responses were observed under some stimulus conditions and appeared to be associated with the spectro-temporal properties of the acoustic stimulus. CONCLUSIONS The LS deconvolution technique provides a new tool to study the properties of the auditory cortical response to rapidly changing sound stimuli. The presence of the cortical auditory evoked responses for rapid transition of synthesized speech stimuli suggests that the temporal code is preserved at the level of the auditory cortex. Further, the reduced amplitudes and shorter latencies might reflect intrinsic properties of the cortical neurons to rapidly presented sounds. SIGNIFICANCE This is the first demonstration of the separation of overlapping cortical responses to rapidly changing speech sounds and offers a potential new biomarker of discrimination of rapid transition of sound.
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- Fabrice Bardy
- HEARing Co-operative Research Centre, VIC, Australia; Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia; National Acoustic Laboratories, NSW, Australia; Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia.
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- HEARing Co-operative Research Centre, VIC, Australia; Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia
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- Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia
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- Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australia
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Region-specific modulations in oscillatory alpha activity serve to facilitate processing in the visual and auditory modalities. Neuroimage 2014; 87:356-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Revised: 10/24/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Hunter CR. Early effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability of spoken words on event-related potentials. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2013; 127:463-474. [PMID: 24129200 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2013] [Revised: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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All current models of spoken word recognition propose that sound-based representations of spoken words compete with, or inhibit, one another during recognition. In addition, certain models propose that higher probability sublexical units facilitate recognition under certain circumstances. Two experiments were conducted examining ERPs to spoken words and nonwords simultaneously varying in phonotactic probability and neighborhood density. Results showed that the amplitude of the P2 potential was greater for high probability-density words and nonwords, suggesting an early inhibitory effect of neighborhood density. In order to closely examine the role of phonotactic probability, effects of initial phoneme frequency were also examined. The latency of the P2 potential was shorter for words with high initial-consonant probability, suggesting a facilitative effect of phonotactic probability. The current results are consistent with findings from previous studies using reaction time and eye-tracking paradigms and provide new insights into the time-course of lexical and sublexical activation and competition.
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- Cynthia R Hunter
- Language Perception Laboratory, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110, USA.
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Dimitrijevic A, Pratt H, Starr A. Auditory cortical activity in normal hearing subjects to consonant vowels presented in quiet and in noise. Clin Neurophysiol 2013; 124:1204-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2011] [Revised: 11/27/2012] [Accepted: 11/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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He S, Grose JH, Buchman CA. Auditory discrimination: the relationship between psychophysical and electrophysiological measures. Int J Audiol 2013; 51:771-82. [PMID: 22998415 DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2012.699198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to (1) investigate the relationship between the acoustic change complex (ACC) and perceptual measures of frequency and intensity discrimination, and gap detection; and (2) examine the effects of acoustic change on the amplitudes and latencies of the ACC. DESIGN Psychophysical thresholds for frequency and intensity discrimination and gap detection, as well as ACCs elicited by stimuli containing increments in frequency, or intensity or gaps, were recorded from the same group of subjects. The magnitude of the acoustic change was systematically varied for the ACC recording. STUDY SAMPLE Twenty-six adults with normal hearing, ranging in age between 19 and 39 years. RESULTS Electrophysiological and psychophysical measures for frequency and intensity discrimination were significantly correlated. Electrophysiological thresholds were comparable to psychophysical thresholds for intensity discrimination but were higher than psychophysical thresholds for gap detection and frequency discrimination. Increasing the magnitude of acoustic change increased the ACC amplitude but did not show consistent effects across acoustic dimensions for ACC latency. CONCLUSIONS The ACC can be used as an objective index of auditory discrimination in frequency and intensity. The ACC amplitude is a better indicator for auditory processing than the ACC latency.
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- Shuman He
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7070, USA.
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Maslin MR, Munro KJ, El-Deredy W. Source analysis reveals plasticity in the auditory cortex: Evidence for reduced hemispheric asymmetries following unilateral deafness. Clin Neurophysiol 2013; 124:391-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2012] [Revised: 07/11/2012] [Accepted: 07/31/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Martinez AS, Eisenberg LS, Boothroyd A. The Acoustic Change Complex in Young Children with Hearing Loss: A Preliminary Study. Semin Hear 2013; 34:278-287. [PMID: 25328277 PMCID: PMC4197937 DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1356640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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The acoustic change complex (ACC) is a cortical auditory evoked potential elicited in response to a change in an ongoing sound. The ACC may have promise for assessing speech perception in infants and toddlers. In this preliminary study, the ACC was elicited in adults and young children in response to changes in speech stimuli representing vowel height /u/-/a/ and vowel place /u/-/i/ contrasts. The participants were adults with normal hearing (n = 3), children with normal hearing (n = 5), and children with mild to moderately severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (n = 5). The children with hearing loss were hearing aid users. The ages ranged from 2 years 3 months to 6 years 3months for the children and 44 to 55 years for the adults. Robust P1-N1-P2 responses were present for the adults and P1-N2 responses were present for all but the youngest child with hearing loss. The ACC response for the vowel place contrast was less robust than that for the vowel height contrast in one child with substantial hearing loss. The findings from this preliminary study support the conclusion that the ACC can be used successfully to assess auditory resolution in most young children.
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- Amy S. Martinez
- Division of Clinical and Translational Research, House Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Clinical and Translational Research, House Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
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Auditory event-related potentials reflect dedicated change detection activity for higher-order acoustic transitions. Biol Psychol 2012; 91:142-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Revised: 03/22/2012] [Accepted: 06/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Weise A, Bendixen A, Müller D, Schröger E. Which kind of transition is important for sound representation? An event-related potential study. Brain Res 2012; 1464:30-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.04.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2012] [Revised: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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