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Bartlett EL, Han EX, Parthasarathy A. Neurometric amplitude modulation detection in the inferior colliculus of Young and Aged rats. Hear Res 2024; 447:109028. [PMID: 38733711 PMCID: PMC11129790 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.109028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
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Amplitude modulation is an important acoustic cue for sound discrimination, and humans and animals are able to detect small modulation depths behaviorally. In the inferior colliculus (IC), both firing rate and phase-locking may be used to detect amplitude modulation. How neural representations that detect modulation change with age are poorly understood, including the extent to which age-related changes may be attributed to the inherited properties of ascending inputs to IC neurons. Here, simultaneous measures of local field potentials (LFPs) and single-unit responses were made from the inferior colliculus of Young and Aged rats using both noise and tone carriers in response to sinusoidally amplitude-modulated sounds of varying depths. We found that Young units had higher firing rates than Aged for noise carriers, whereas Aged units had higher phase-locking (vector strength), especially for tone carriers. Sustained LFPs were larger in Young animals for modulation frequencies 8-16 Hz and comparable at higher modulation frequencies. Onset LFP amplitudes were much larger in Young animals and were correlated with the evoked firing rates, while LFP onset latencies were shorter in Aged animals. Unit neurometric thresholds by synchrony or firing rate measures did not differ significantly across age and were comparable to behavioral thresholds in previous studies whereas LFP thresholds were lower than behavior.
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- Edward L Bartlett
- Department of Biological Sciences and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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Regev J, Relaño-Iborra H, Zaar J, Dau T. Disentangling the effects of hearing loss and age on amplitude modulation frequency selectivity. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2024; 155:2589-2602. [PMID: 38607268 DOI: 10.1121/10.0025541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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The processing and perception of amplitude modulation (AM) in the auditory system reflect a frequency-selective process, often described as a modulation filterbank. Previous studies on perceptual AM masking reported similar results for older listeners with hearing impairment (HI listeners) and young listeners with normal hearing (NH listeners), suggesting no effects of age or hearing loss on AM frequency selectivity. However, recent evidence has shown that age, independently of hearing loss, adversely affects AM frequency selectivity. Hence, this study aimed to disentangle the effects of hearing loss and age. A simultaneous AM masking paradigm was employed, using a sinusoidal carrier at 2.8 kHz, narrowband noise modulation maskers, and target modulation frequencies of 4, 16, 64, and 128 Hz. The results obtained from young (n = 3, 24-30 years of age) and older (n = 10, 63-77 years of age) HI listeners were compared to previously obtained data from young and older NH listeners. Notably, the HI listeners generally exhibited lower (unmasked) AM detection thresholds and greater AM frequency selectivity than their NH counterparts in both age groups. Overall, the results suggest that age negatively affects AM frequency selectivity for both NH and HI listeners, whereas hearing loss improves AM detection and AM selectivity, likely due to the loss of peripheral compression.
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- Jonathan Regev
- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
- Eriksholm Research Centre, Snekkersten, 3070, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
- Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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Regev J, Zaar J, Relaño-Iborra H, Dau T. Age-related reduction of amplitude modulation frequency selectivity. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2023; 153:2298. [PMID: 37092934 DOI: 10.1121/10.0017835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The perception of amplitude modulations (AMs) has been characterized by a frequency-selective process in the temporal envelope domain and simulated in computational auditory processing and perception models using a modulation filterbank. Such AM frequency-selective processing has been argued to be critical for the perception of complex sounds, including speech. This study aimed at investigating the effects of age on behavioral AM frequency selectivity in young (n = 11, 22-29 years) versus older (n = 10, 57-77 years) listeners with normal hearing, using a simultaneous AM masking paradigm with a sinusoidal carrier (2.8 kHz), target modulation frequencies of 4, 16, 64, and 128 Hz, and narrowband-noise modulation maskers. A reduction of AM frequency selectivity by a factor of up to 2 was found in the older listeners. While the observed AM selectivity co-varied with the unmasked AM detection sensitivity, the age-related broadening of the masked threshold patterns remained stable even when AM sensitivity was similar across groups for an extended stimulus duration. The results from the present study might provide a valuable basis for further investigations exploring the effects of age and reduced AM frequency selectivity on complex sound perception as well as the interaction of age and hearing impairment on AM processing and perception.
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- Jonathan Regev
- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Eriksholm Research Centre, Snekkersten, 3070, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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Attia S, King A, Varnet L, Ponsot E, Lorenzi C. Double-pass consistency for amplitude- and frequency-modulation detection in normal-hearing listeners. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 150:3631. [PMID: 34852611 DOI: 10.1121/10.0006811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) provide crucial auditory information. If FM is encoded as AM, it should be possible to give a unified account of AM and FM perception both in terms of response consistency and performance. These two aspects of behavior were estimated for normal-hearing participants using a constant-stimuli, forced-choice detection task repeated twice with the same stimuli (double pass). Sinusoidal AM or FM with rates of 2 or 20 Hz were applied to a 500-Hz pure-tone carrier and presented at detection threshold. All stimuli were masked by a modulation noise. Percent agreement of responses across passes and percent-correct detection for the two passes were used to estimate consistency and performance, respectively. These data were simulated using a model implementing peripheral processes, a central modulation filterbank, an additive internal noise, and a template-matching device. Different levels of internal noise were required to reproduce AM and FM data, but a single level could account for the 2- and 20-Hz AM data. As for FM, two levels of internal noise were needed to account for detection at slow and fast rates. Finally, the level of internal noise yielding best predictions increased with the level of the modulation-noise masker. Overall, these results suggest that different sources of internal variability are involved for AM and FM detection at low audio frequencies.
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- Sarah Attia
- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (CNRS 8248), Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (CNRS 8248), Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (CNRS 8248), Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (CNRS 8248), Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (CNRS 8248), Département d'études cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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Palandrani KN, Hoover EC, Stavropoulos T, Seitz AR, Isarangura S, Gallun FJ, Eddins DA. Temporal integration of monaural and dichotic frequency modulation. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2021; 150:745. [PMID: 34470296 PMCID: PMC8337085 DOI: 10.1121/10.0005729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Revised: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Frequency modulation (FM) detection at low modulation frequencies is commonly used as an index of temporal fine-structure processing. The present study evaluated the rate of improvement in monaural and dichotic FM across a range of test parameters. In experiment I, dichotic and monaural FM detection was measured as a function of duration and modulator starting phase. Dichotic FM thresholds were lower than monaural FM thresholds and the modulator starting phase had no effect on detection. Experiment II measured monaural FM detection for signals that differed in modulation rate and duration such that the improvement with duration in seconds (carrier) or cycles (modulator) was compared. Monaural FM detection improved monotonically with the number of modulation cycles, suggesting that the modulator is extracted prior to detection. Experiment III measured dichotic FM detection for shorter signal durations to test the hypothesis that dichotic FM relies primarily on the signal onset. The rate of improvement decreased as duration increased, which is consistent with the use of primarily onset cues for the detection of dichotic FM. These results establish that improvement with duration occurs as a function of the modulation cycles at a rate consistent with the independent-samples model for monaural FM, but later cycles contribute less to detection in dichotic FM.
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- Katherine N Palandrani
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Brain Game Center, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Mahidol University, Phaya Thai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
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Whiteford KL, Kreft HA, Oxenham AJ. The role of cochlear place coding in the perception of frequency modulation. eLife 2020; 9:58468. [PMID: 32996463 PMCID: PMC7556860 DOI: 10.7554/elife.58468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Natural sounds convey information via frequency and amplitude modulations (FM and AM). Humans are acutely sensitive to the slow rates of FM that are crucial for speech and music. This sensitivity has long been thought to rely on precise stimulus-driven auditory-nerve spike timing (time code), whereas a coarser code, based on variations in the cochlear place of stimulation (place code), represents faster FM rates. We tested this theory in listeners with normal and impaired hearing, spanning a wide range of place-coding fidelity. Contrary to predictions, sensitivity to both slow and fast FM correlated with place-coding fidelity. We also used incoherent AM on two carriers to simulate place coding of FM and observed poorer sensitivity at high carrier frequencies and fast rates, two properties of FM detection previously ascribed to the limits of time coding. The results suggest a unitary place-based neural code for FM across all rates and carrier frequencies.
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- Kelly L Whiteford
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
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Ewert SD, Paraouty N, Lorenzi C. A two‐path model of auditory modulation detection using temporal fine structure and envelope cues. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 51:1265-1278. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Stephan D. Ewert
- Medizinische Physik and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All Universität Oldenburg 26111 Oldenburg Germany
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs Département d’études cognitives, École normale supérieure CNRS PSL Research University Paris France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs Département d’études cognitives, École normale supérieure CNRS PSL Research University Paris France
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Parthasarathy A, Bartlett EL, Kujawa SG. Age-related Changes in Neural Coding of Envelope Cues: Peripheral Declines and Central Compensation. Neuroscience 2019; 407:21-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Occelli F, Hasselmann F, Bourien J, Eybalin M, Puel J, Desvignes N, Wiszniowski B, Edeline JM, Gourévitch B. Age-related Changes in Auditory Cortex Without Detectable Peripheral Alterations: A Multi-level Study in Sprague–Dawley Rats. Neuroscience 2019; 404:184-204. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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King A, Varnet L, Lorenzi C. Accounting for masking of frequency modulation by amplitude modulation with the modulation filter-bank concept. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2019; 145:2277. [PMID: 31046322 DOI: 10.1121/1.5094344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Frequency modulation (FM) is assumed to be detected through amplitude modulation (AM) created by cochlear filtering for modulation rates above 10 Hz and carrier frequencies (fc) above 4 kHz. If this is the case, a model of modulation perception based on the concept of AM filters should predict masking effects between AM and FM. To test this, masking effects of sinusoidal AM on sinusoidal FM detection thresholds were assessed on normal-hearing listeners as a function of FM rate, fc, duration, AM rate, AM depth, and phase difference between FM and AM. The data were compared to predictions of a computational model implementing an AM filter-bank. Consistent with model predictions, AM masked FM with some AM-masking-AM features (broad tuning and effect of AM-masker depth). Similar masking was predicted and observed at fc = 0.5 and 5 kHz for a 2 Hz AM masker, inconsistent with the notion that additional (e.g., temporal fine-structure) cues drive slow-rate FM detection at low fc. However, masking was lower than predicted and, unlike model predictions, did not show beating or phase effects. Broadly, the modulation filter-bank concept successfully explained some AM-masking-FM effects, but could not give a complete account of both AM and FM detection.
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- Andrew King
- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, UMR CNRS 8248, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, UMR CNRS 8248, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, UMR CNRS 8248, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École normale supérieure, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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Paraouty N, Stasiak A, Lorenzi C, Varnet L, Winter IM. Dual Coding of Frequency Modulation in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus. J Neurosci 2018; 38:4123-4137. [PMID: 29599389 PMCID: PMC6596033 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2107-17.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 03/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Frequency modulation (FM) is a common acoustic feature of natural sounds and is known to play a role in robust sound source recognition. Auditory neurons show precise stimulus-synchronized discharge patterns that may be used for the representation of low-rate FM. However, it remains unclear whether this representation is based on synchronization to slow temporal envelope (ENV) cues resulting from cochlear filtering or phase locking to faster temporal fine structure (TFS) cues. To investigate the plausibility of those encoding schemes, single units of the ventral cochlear nucleus of guinea pigs of either sex were recorded in response to sine FM tones centered at the unit's best frequency (BF). The results show that, in contrast to high-BF units, for modulation depths within the receptive field, low-BF units (<4 kHz) demonstrate good phase locking to TFS. For modulation depths extending beyond the receptive field, the discharge patterns follow the ENV and fluctuate at the modulation rate. The receptive field proved to be a good predictor of the ENV responses for most primary-like and chopper units. The current in vivo data also reveal a high level of diversity in responses across unit types. TFS cues are mainly conveyed by low-frequency and primary-like units and ENV cues by chopper and onset units. The diversity of responses exhibited by cochlear nucleus neurons provides a neural basis for a dual-coding scheme of FM in the brainstem based on both ENV and TFS cues.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Natural sounds, including speech, convey informative temporal modulations in frequency. Understanding how the auditory system represents those frequency modulations (FM) has important implications as robust sound source recognition depends crucially on the reception of low-rate FM cues. Here, we recorded 115 single-unit responses from the ventral cochlear nucleus in response to FM and provide the first physiological evidence of a dual-coding mechanism of FM via synchronization to temporal envelope cues and phase locking to temporal fine structure cues. We also demonstrate a diversity of neural responses with different coding specializations. These results support the dual-coding scheme proposed by psychophysicists to account for FM sensitivity in humans and provide new insights on how this might be implemented in the early stages of the auditory pathway.
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- Nihaad Paraouty
- Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, The Physiological Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and
- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs CNRS UMR 8248, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Paris, France
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- Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, The Physiological Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs CNRS UMR 8248, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs CNRS UMR 8248, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Paris, France
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- Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, The Physiological Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and
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Aushana Y, Souffi S, Edeline JM, Lorenzi C, Huetz C. Robust Neuronal Discrimination in Primary Auditory Cortex Despite Degradations of Spectro-temporal Acoustic Details: Comparison Between Guinea Pigs with Normal Hearing and Mild Age-Related Hearing Loss. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2018; 19:163-180. [PMID: 29302822 PMCID: PMC5878150 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-017-0649-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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This study investigated to which extent the primary auditory cortex of young normal-hearing and mild hearing-impaired aged animals is able to maintain invariant representation of critical temporal-modulation features when sounds are submitted to degradations of fine spectro-temporal acoustic details. This was achieved by recording ensemble of cortical responses to conspecific vocalizations in guinea pigs with either normal hearing or mild age-related sensorineural hearing loss. The vocalizations were degraded using a tone vocoder. The neuronal responses and their discrimination capacities (estimated by mutual information) were analyzed at single recording and population levels. For normal-hearing animals, the neuronal responses decreased as a function of the number of the vocoder frequency bands, so did their discriminative capacities at the single recording level. However, small neuronal populations were found to be robust to the degradations induced by the vocoder. Similar robustness was obtained when broadband noise was added to exacerbate further the spectro-temporal distortions produced by the vocoder. A comparable pattern of robustness to degradations in fine spectro-temporal details was found for hearing-impaired animals. However, the latter showed an overall decrease in neuronal discrimination capacities between vocalizations in noisy conditions. Consistent with previous studies, these results demonstrate that the primary auditory cortex maintains robust neural representation of temporal envelope features for communication sounds under a large range of spectro-temporal degradations.
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- Yonane Aushana
- Paris-Saclay Institute of Neurosciences (Neuro-PSI), CNRS UMR 9197, Orsay, France
- Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay Institute of Neurosciences (Neuro-PSI), CNRS UMR 9197, Orsay, France
- Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Paris-Saclay Institute of Neurosciences (Neuro-PSI), CNRS UMR 9197, Orsay, France
- Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, UMR CNRS 8248, Département d’Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University, 75005 Paris, France
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- Paris-Saclay Institute of Neurosciences (Neuro-PSI), CNRS UMR 9197, Orsay, France
- Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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Assessing the Role of Place and Timing Cues in Coding Frequency and Amplitude Modulation as a Function of Age. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2017; 18:619-633. [PMID: 28429126 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-017-0624-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/29/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Natural sounds can be characterized by their fluctuations in amplitude and frequency. Ageing may affect sensitivity to some forms of fluctuations more than others. The present study used individual differences across a wide age range (20-79 years) to test the hypothesis that slow-rate, low-carrier frequency modulation (FM) is coded by phase-locked auditory-nerve responses to temporal fine structure (TFS), whereas fast-rate FM is coded via rate-place (tonotopic) cues, based on amplitude modulation (AM) of the temporal envelope after cochlear filtering. Using a low (500 Hz) carrier frequency, diotic FM and AM detection thresholds were measured at slow (1 Hz) and fast (20 Hz) rates in 85 listeners. Frequency selectivity and TFS coding were assessed using forward masking patterns and interaural phase disparity tasks (slow dichotic FM), respectively. Comparable interaural level disparity tasks (slow and fast dichotic AM and fast dichotic FM) were measured to control for effects of binaural processing not specifically related to TFS coding. Thresholds in FM and AM tasks were correlated, even across tasks thought to use separate peripheral codes. Age was correlated with slow and fast FM thresholds in both diotic and dichotic conditions. The relationship between age and AM thresholds was generally not significant. Once accounting for AM sensitivity, only diotic slow-rate FM thresholds remained significantly correlated with age. Overall, results indicate stronger effects of age on FM than AM. However, because of similar effects for both slow and fast FM when not accounting for AM sensitivity, the effects cannot be unambiguously ascribed to TFS coding.
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Wallaert N, Moore BCJ, Ewert SD, Lorenzi C. Sensorineural hearing loss enhances auditory sensitivity and temporal integration for amplitude modulation. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2017; 141:971. [PMID: 28253641 DOI: 10.1121/1.4976080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Amplitude-modulation detection thresholds (AMDTs) were measured at 40 dB sensation level for listeners with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss (age: 50-64 yr) for a carrier frequency of 500 Hz and rates of 2 and 20 Hz. The number of modulation cycles, N, varied between two and nine. The data were compared with AMDTs measured for young and older normal-hearing listeners [Wallaert, Moore, and Lorenzi (2016). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 139, 3088-3096]. As for normal-hearing listeners, AMDTs were lower for the 2-Hz than for the 20-Hz rate, and AMDTs decreased with increasing N. AMDTs were lower for hearing-impaired listeners than for normal-hearing listeners, and the effect of increasing N was greater for hearing-impaired listeners. A computational model based on the modulation-filterbank concept and a template-matching decision strategy was developed to account for the data. The psychophysical and simulation data suggest that the loss of amplitude compression in the impaired cochlea is mainly responsible for the enhanced sensitivity and temporal integration of temporal envelope cues found for hearing-impaired listeners. The data also suggest that, for AM detection, cochlear damage is associated with increased internal noise, but preserved short-term memory and decision mechanisms.
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- Nicolas Wallaert
- UMR CNRS LSP 8248, Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom
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- Medizinische Physik and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- UMR CNRS LSP 8248, Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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