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Yeral C, Yaman H, Gündoğdu O, Mutlu BÖ, Polat B, Yılmaz O. Does migraine affect central auditory processing abilities? Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2024; 243:108364. [PMID: 38838420 DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Migraine is a neurological disease associated with an altered cortical excitability level. Several studies have investigated the relationship between migraine and central auditory processing (CAP), with deficits in CAP being common among migraine patients. However, studies on the factors affecting these CAP changes observed in migraine patients are still few and controversial. This study aims to investigate CAP changes in migraine patients with Duration Pattern Test (DPT) and Frequency Pattern Test (FPT), which have not been used in previous studies. METHODS Sixty subjects were divided into two groups and one migraine subgroup: control group, twenty normal healthy subjects, fourty subjects diagnosed with migraine. They were evaluated using the CAP test including DPT and FPT. To identify the variables and possible effects of the variables, a questionnaire describing the characteristics of migraine features was administered to participants with migraine. RESULTS No significant difference was found the between the control and study group in CAP tests scores. No significant correlation was found between migraine characteristics and CAP tests scores. Males had significantly higher FPT scores in both ears than females (p<0.05). Significant statistical negative correlation was found between age and FPT scores for both ears and left DPT scores (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Although migraine patients generally showed lower CAP ability than the control group, no significant difference was observed between them. This was also valid for subgroups of migraine. However, as age increased in the migraine group, a significant decrease in CAP performance was observed. It was observed that male migraine patients had better CAP ability, especially FPT scores. Migraine may affect performance in CAP depending on gender and age factors.
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- Cem Yeral
- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Department of Audiology, Istanbul Medipol University Mega Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye; Functional Imaging and Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience Lab (fINCAN), Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Department of Audiology, Istanbul Medipol University Mega Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Duzce University, Duzce, Türkiye.
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- Department of Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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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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Kung SJ, Wu DH, Hsu CH, Hsieh IH. A Minimum Temporal Window for Direction Detection of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps: A Magnetoencephalography Study. Front Psychol 2020; 11:389. [PMID: 32218758 PMCID: PMC7078663 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The ability to rapidly encode the direction of frequency contour contained in frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps is essential for speech processing, music appreciation, and conspecific communications. Psychophysical evidence points to a common temporal window threshold for human listeners in processing rapid changes in frequency glides. No neural evidence has been provided for the existence of a cortical temporal window threshold underlying the encoding of rapid transitions in frequency glides. The present magnetoencephalography study used the cortical mismatch negativity activity (MMNm) to investigate the minimum temporal window required for detecting different magnitudes of directional changes in frequency-modulated sweeps. A deviant oddball paradigm was used in which directional upward or downward frequency sweep serves as the standard and the same type of sweep with the opposite direction serves as its deviant. Stimuli consisted of unidirectional linear frequency-sweep complexes that swept across speech-relevant frequency bands in durations of 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 ms (with corresponding rates of 50, 25, 12.5, 6.2, 3.1, 1.5 oct/s). The data revealed significant magnetic mismatch field responses across all sweep durations, with slower-rate sweeps eliciting larger MMNm responses. A greater temporally related enhancement in MMNm response was obtained for rising but not falling frequency sweep contours. A hemispheric asymmetry in the MMNm response pattern was observed corresponding to the directionality of frequency sweeps. Contrary to psychophysical findings, we report a temporal window as short as 10 ms sufficient to elicit a robust MMNm response to a directional change in speech-relevant frequency contours. The results suggest that auditory cortex requires extremely brief temporal window to implicitly differentiate a dynamic change in frequency of linguistically relevant pitch contours. That the brain is extremely sensitive to fine spectral changes contained in speech-relevant glides provides cortical evidence for the ecological importance of FM sweeps in speech processing.
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- Shu-Jen Kung
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.,Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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An H, Auksztulewicz R, Kang H, Schnupp JWH. Cortical mapping of mismatch responses to independent acoustic features. Hear Res 2020; 399:107894. [PMID: 31987647 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Revised: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Predictive coding is an influential theory of neural processing underlying perceptual inference. However, it is unknown to what extent prediction violations of different sensory features are mediated in different regions in auditory cortex, with different dynamics, and by different mechanisms. This study investigates the neural responses to synthesized acoustic syllables, which could be expected or unexpected, along several features. By using electrocorticography (ECoG) in rat auditory cortex (subjects: adult female Wistar rats with normal hearing), we aimed at mapping regional differences in mismatch responses to different stimulus features. Continuous streams of morphed syllables formed roving oddball sequences in which each stimulus was repeated several times (thereby forming a standard) and subsequently replaced with a deviant stimulus which differed from the standard along one of several acoustic features: duration, pitch, interaural level differences (ILD), or consonant identity. Each of these features could assume one of several different levels, and the resulting change from standard to deviant could be larger or smaller. The deviant stimuli were then repeated to form new standards. We analyzed responses to the first repetition of a new stimulus (deviant) and its last repetition in a stimulus train (standard). For the ECoG recording, we implanted urethane-anaesthetized rats with 8 × 8 surface electrode arrays covering a 3 × 3 mm cortical patch encompassing primary and higher-order auditory cortex. We identified the response topographies and latencies of population activity evoked by acoustic stimuli in the rat auditory regions, and mapped their sensitivity to expectation violations along different acoustic features. For all features, the responses to deviant stimuli increased in amplitude relative to responses to standard stimuli. Deviance magnitude did not further modulate these mismatch responses. Mismatch responses to different feature violations showed a heterogeneous distribution across cortical areas, with no evidence for systematic topographic gradients for any of the tested features. However, within rats, the spatial distribution of mismatch responses varied more between features than the spatial distribution of tone-evoked responses. This result supports the notion that prediction error signaling along different stimulus features is subserved by different cortical populations, albeit with substantial heterogeneity across individuals.
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- HyunJung An
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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Ozga WK, Zapała D, Wierzgała P, Augustynowicz P, Porzak R, Wójcik GM. Acoustic Neurofeedback Increases Beta ERD During Mental Rotation Task. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 2019; 44:103-115. [PMID: 30565198 PMCID: PMC6505495 DOI: 10.1007/s10484-018-9426-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The purpose of the present study was to identify the effect of acoustic neurofeedback on brain activity during consecutive stages of mental rotation of 3D objects. Given the fact that the process of mental rotation of objects is associated with desynchronisation of beta rhythm (beta ERD), it was expected that suppression in this band would be greater in the experimental group than in the controls. Thirty-three participants were randomly allocated to two groups performing the classic Shepard-Metzler mental rotation task (1971). The experimental group received auditory stimuli when the level of concentration fell below the threshold value determined separately for each participant based on the engagement index [β/(α + Θ)]. The level of concentration in the control group was not stimulated. Compared to the controls, the experimental group was found with greater beta-band suppression recorded above the left parietal cortex during the early stage and above the right parietal cortex during the late stage of mental rotation task. At the late stage of mental rotation, only the experimental group was found with differences in beta ERD related to varied degrees of the rotation angle and the control condition (zero angles, no rotation) recorded above the right parietal cortex and the central area of cerebral cortex. The present findings suggest that acoustic feedback might improve the process of mental rotation.
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- Wioletta Karina Ozga
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Neuroinformatics, Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 9/509, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin, Projektowa 4, 20-209, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Neuroinformatics, Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 9/509, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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García PB, Froud K. Perception of American English vowels by sequential Spanish-English bilinguals. BILINGUALISM (CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND) 2018; 21:80-103. [PMID: 29449782 PMCID: PMC5809139 DOI: 10.1017/s1366728916000808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Research on American-English (AE) vowel perception by Spanish-English bilinguals has focused on the vowels /i/-/ɪ/ (e.g., in sheep/ship). Other AE vowel contrasts may present perceptual challenges for this population, especially those requiring both spectral and durational discrimination. We used Event-Related Potentials (ERPs), MMN (Mismatch Negativity) and P300, to index discrimination of AE vowels /ɑ/-/ʌ/ by sequential adult Spanish-English bilingual listeners compared to AE monolinguals. Listening tasks were non-attended and attended, and vowels were presented with natural and neutralized durations. Regardless of vowel duration, bilingual listeners showed no MMN to unattended sounds, and P300 responses were elicited to /ɑ/ but not /ʌ/ in the attended condition. Monolingual listeners showed pre-attentive discrimination (MMN) for /ɑ/ only; while both vowels elicited P300 responses when attended. Findings suggest that Spanish-English bilinguals recruit attentional and cognitive resources enabling native-like use of both spectral and durational cues to discriminate between AE vowels /ɑ/ and /ʌ/.
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- Department of Biobehavioral Sciences. Teachers College - Columbia University
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Integrating speech in time depends on temporal expectancies and attention. Cortex 2017; 93:28-40. [PMID: 28609683 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Revised: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Sensory information that unfolds in time, such as in speech perception, relies on efficient chunking mechanisms in order to yield optimally-sized units for further processing. Whether or not two successive acoustic events receive a one-unit or a two-unit interpretation seems to depend on the fit between their temporal extent and a stipulated temporal window of integration. However, there is ongoing debate on how flexible this temporal window of integration should be, especially for the processing of speech sounds. Furthermore, there is no direct evidence of whether attention may modulate the temporal constraints on the integration window. For this reason, we here examine how different word durations, which lead to different temporal separations of sound onsets, interact with attention. In an Electroencephalography (EEG) study, participants actively and passively listened to words where word-final consonants were occasionally omitted. Words had either a natural duration or were artificially prolonged in order to increase the separation of speech sound onsets. Omission responses to incomplete speech input, originating in left temporal cortex, decreased when the critical speech sound was separated from previous sounds by more than 250 msec, i.e., when the separation was larger than the stipulated temporal window of integration (125-150 msec). Attention, on the other hand, only increased omission responses for stimuli with natural durations. We complemented the event-related potential (ERP) analyses by a frequency-domain analysis on the stimulus presentation rate. Notably, the power of stimulation frequency showed the same duration and attention effects than the omission responses. We interpret these findings on the background of existing research on temporal integration windows and further suggest that our findings may be accounted for within the framework of predictive coding.
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Campbell AM, Davalos DB. Levels of attention and task difficulty in the modulation of interval duration mismatch negativity. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1619. [PMID: 26579010 PMCID: PMC4621395 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Time perception has been described as a fundamental skill needed to engage in a number of higher level cognitive processes essential to successfully navigate everyday life (e.g., planning, sequencing, etc.) Temporal processing is often thought of as a basic neural process that impacts a variety of other cognitive processes. Others, however, have argued that timing in the brain can be affected by a number of variables such as attention and motivation. In an effort to better understand timing in the brain at a basic level with minimal attentional demands, researchers have often employed use of the mismatch negativity (MMN). MMN, specifically duration MMN (dMMN) and interval MMN (iMMN) have been popular methods for studying temporal processing in populations for which attention or motivation may be an issue (e.g., clinical populations, early developmental studies). There are, however, select studies which suggest that attention may in fact modify both temporal processing in general and the MMN event-related potential. It is unclear the degree to which attention affects MMN or whether the effects differ depending on the complexity or difficulty of the MMN paradigm. The iMMN indexes temporal processing and is elicited by introducing a deviant interval duration amid a series of standards. A greater degree of difference in the deviant from the standard elicits a heightened iMMN. Unlike past studies, in which attention was intentionally directed toward a closed-captioned move, the current study had participants partake in tasks involving varying degrees of attention (passive, low, and high) with varying degrees of deviants (small, medium, and large) to better understand the role of attention on the iMMN and to assess whether level of attention paired with changes in task difficulty differentially influence the iMMN electrophysiological responses. Data from 19 subjects were recorded in an iMMN paradigm. The amplitude of the iMMN waveform showed an increase with attention, particularly for intervals that were the most distinct from a standard interval (p < 0.02). Results suggest that the role of attention on the iMMN is complex. Both the degree of attention paid as well as the level of difficulty of the MMN task likely influence the neuronal response within a timing network. These results suggest that electrophysiological perception of time is modified by attention and that the design of the iMMN study is critical to minimize the possible confounding effects of attention. In addition, the implications of these results for future studies assessing interval duration-based MMN in clinical populations is also addressed.
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- Alana M. Campbell
- Department of Psychiatry and the UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Campanella S, Colin C. Event-related potentials and biomarkers of psychiatric diseases: the necessity to adopt and develop multi-site guidelines. Front Behav Neurosci 2014; 8:428. [PMID: 25540614 PMCID: PMC4261801 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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- Salvatore Campanella
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et d'Addictologie, ULB Neuroscience Institute, CHU Brugmann-Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium
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- Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences, ULB Neuroscience Institute and Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Sensorielle et Cognitive, CHU Brugmann-Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium
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Bobin-Bègue A, Droit-Volet S, Provasi J. Young children's difficulties in switching from rhythm production to temporal interval production (>1 s). Front Psychol 2014; 5:1346. [PMID: 25538640 PMCID: PMC4256987 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study examined the young children's abilities to switch from rhythm production, with short inter-tap intervals (ITIs), to temporal interval production, with long ITI (>1 s), in a sensorimotor synchronization task. Children aged 3- and 5-year-olds were given six sessions of synchronization. In a control group, they had to synchronize their ITI to an inter-stimulus interval (ISI) of 4 s. In the experimental group, they must progressively increase their ITI for one session to the next (from 0.4 to 4.0-s ISI). Our results showed that the 5-year-olds produced longer ITI that the 3-year-olds in synchronization. However, the value of ITI in the 5-year-olds never exceeded 1.5 s, with more variable ITI in the control than in the experimental group. In addition, at 5 years, boys had more difficulties than girls in changing their tapping rhythm. These results suggest a temporal window in sensorimotor synchronization, beyond which the rhythm is lost and the synchronization becomes difficult.
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- Anne Bobin-Bègue
- Laboratoire Éthologie, Cognition, Développement, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Nanterre, France
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- Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, CNRS UMR 6024 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire Cognition Humaine et Artificielle, École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris, France
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van Wassenhove V, Lecoutre L. Duration estimation entails predicting when. Neuroimage 2014; 106:272-83. [PMID: 25462792 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Revised: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 11/01/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The estimation of duration can be affected by context and surprise. Using MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG), we tested whether increased neural activity during surprise and following neural suppression in two different contexts supported subjective time dilation (Eagleman and Pariyadath, 2009; Pariyadath and Eagleman, 2012). Sequences of three 300 ms frequency-modulated (FM, control) or pure tones (test) were presented and followed by a fourth FM varying in duration. In test, the last FM was perceived as significantly longer than veridical duration (Tse et al., 2004) but did not differ from the perceived duration in control. Several novel and distinct neural signatures were observed in duration estimation: first, neural suppression of standard stimuli was observed for the onset but not for the offset auditory evoked responses. Second, ramping activity increased with veridical duration in control whereas at the same latency in test, the amplitude of the midlatency response increased with the distance of deviant durations. Third, in both conditions, the amplitude of the offset auditory evoked responses accounted well for participants' performance: the longer the perceived duration, the larger the offset response. Fourth, neural duration demarcated by the peak latencies of the onset and ramping evoked activities indexed a systematic time compression that reliably predicted subjective time perception. Our findings suggest that interval timing undergoes time compression by capitalizing on the predicted offset of an auditory event.
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- Virginie van Wassenhove
- CEA, DSV/I(2)BM, NeuroSpin, INSERM, U992, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Univ Paris-Sud, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France.
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- CEA, DSV/I(2)BM, NeuroSpin, INSERM, U992, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Univ Paris-Sud, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France
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Agessi LM, Villa TR, Dias KZ, Carvalho DDS, Pereira LD. Central auditory processing and migraine: a controlled study. J Headache Pain 2014; 15:72. [PMID: 25380661 PMCID: PMC4232973 DOI: 10.1186/1129-2377-15-72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Background This study aimed to verify and compare central auditory processing (CAP) performance in migraine with and without aura patients and healthy controls. Methods Forty-one volunteers of both genders, aged between 18 and 40 years, diagnosed with migraine with and without aura by the criteria of “The International Classification of Headache Disorders” (ICDH-3 beta) and a control group of the same age range and with no headache history, were included. Gaps-in-noise (GIN), Duration Pattern test (DPT) and Dichotic Digits Test (DDT) tests were used to assess central auditory processing performance. Results The volunteers were divided into 3 groups: Migraine with aura (11), migraine without aura (15), and control group (15), matched by age and schooling. Subjects with aura and without aura performed significantly worse in GIN test for right ear (p = .006), for left ear (p = .005) and for DPT test (p < .001) when compared with controls without headache, however no significant differences were found in the DDT test for the right ear (p = .362) and for the left ear (p = .190). Conclusions Subjects with migraine performed worsened in auditory gap detection, in the discrimination of short and long duration. They also presented impairment in the physiological mechanism of temporal processing, especially in temporal resolution and temporal ordering when compared with controls. Migraine could be related to an impaired central auditory processing. Clinical trial registration Research Ethics Committee (CEP 0480.10) – UNIFESP
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- Larissa Mendonça Agessi
- Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Neurology and Neurosurgery Department, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Tong X, McBride C, Lee CY, Zhang J, Shuai L, Maurer U, Chung KKH. Segmental and suprasegmental features in speech perception in Cantonese-speaking second graders: An ERP study. Psychophysiology 2014; 51:1158-68. [DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2013] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xiuhong Tong
- Psychology Department; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong China
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- Psychology Department; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong China
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- The Institute of Linguistics; Academia Sinica; Taipei Taiwan
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- Faculty of Education; University of Macau; Macau China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore Maryland USA
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- Department of Psychology; University of Zurich; Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Special Education and Counselling; Hong Kong Institute of Education; Hong Kong China
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Sussman ES, Chen S, Sussman-Fort J, Dinces E. The five myths of MMN: redefining how to use MMN in basic and clinical research. Brain Topogr 2013; 27:553-64. [PMID: 24158725 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-013-0326-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The goal of this review article is to redefine what the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of event-related potentials reflects in auditory scene analysis, and to provide an overview of how the MMN serves as a valuable tool in Cognitive Neuroscience research. In doing so, some of the old beliefs (five common 'myths') about MMN will be dispelled, such as the notion that MMN is a simple feature discriminator and that attention itself modulates MMN elicitation. A revised description of what MMN truly reflects will be provided, which includes a principal focus onto the highly context-dependent nature of MMN elicitation and new terminology to discuss MMN and attention. This revised framework will help clarify what has been a long line of seemingly contradictory results from studies in which behavioral ability to hear differences between sounds and passive elicitation of MMN have been inconsistent. Understanding what MMN is will also benefit clinical research efforts by providing a new picture of how to design appropriate paradigms suited to various clinical populations.
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- E S Sussman
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA,
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Foster SM, Kisley MA, Davis HP, Diede NT, Campbell AM, Davalos DB. Cognitive function predicts neural activity associated with pre-attentive temporal processing. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:211-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2012] [Revised: 09/06/2012] [Accepted: 09/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Carver FW, Elvevåg B, Altamura M, Weinberger DR, Coppola R. The neuromagnetic dynamics of time perception. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42618. [PMID: 22912714 PMCID: PMC3422225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Examining real-time cortical dynamics is crucial for understanding time perception. Using magnetoencephalography we studied auditory duration discrimination of short (<.5 s) versus long tones (>.5 s) versus a pitch control. Time-frequency analysis of event-related fields showed widespread beta-band (13–30 Hz) desynchronization during all tone presentations. Synthetic aperture magnetometry indicated automatic primarily sensorimotor responses in short and pitch conditions, with activation specific to timing in bilateral inferior frontal gyrus. In the long condition, a right lateralized network was active, including lateral prefrontal cortices, inferior frontal gyrus, supramarginal gyrus and secondary auditory areas. Activation in this network peaked just after attention to tone duration was no longer necessary, suggesting a role in sustaining representation of the interval. These data expand our understanding of time perception by revealing its complex cortical spatiotemporal signature.
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- Frederick W. Carver
- MEG Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- MEG Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Bendixen A, Schröger E, Ritter W, Winkler I. Regularity extraction from non-adjacent sounds. Front Psychol 2012; 3:143. [PMID: 22661959 PMCID: PMC3356878 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The regular behavior of sound sources helps us to make sense of the auditory environment. Regular patterns may, for instance, convey information on the identity of a sound source (such as the acoustic signature of a train moving on the rails). Yet typically, this signature overlaps in time with signals emitted from other sound sources. It is generally assumed that auditory regularity extraction cannot operate upon this mixture of signals because it only finds regularities between adjacent sounds. In this view, the auditory environment would be grouped into separate entities by means of readily available acoustic cues such as separation in frequency and location. Regularity extraction processes would then operate upon the resulting groups. Our new experimental evidence challenges this view. We presented two interleaved sound sequences which overlapped in frequency range and shared all acoustic parameters. The sequences only differed in their underlying regular patterns. We inserted deviants into one of the sequences to probe whether the regularity was extracted. In the first experiment, we found that these deviants elicited the mismatch negativity (MMN) component. Thus the auditory system was able to find the regularity between the non-adjacent sounds. Regularity extraction was not influenced by sequence cohesiveness as manipulated by the relative duration of tones and silent inter-tone-intervals. In the second experiment, we showed that a regularity connecting non-adjacent sounds was discovered only when the intervening sequence also contained a regular pattern, but not when the intervening sounds were randomly varying. This suggests that separate regular patterns are available to the auditory system as a cue for identifying signals coming from distinct sound sources. Thus auditory regularity extraction is not necessarily confined to a processing stage after initial sound grouping, but may precede grouping when other acoustic cues are unavailable.
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- Alexandra Bendixen
- Institute for Psychology, University of LeipzigLeipzig, Germany
- Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of SciencesBudapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Psychology, University of LeipzigLeipzig, Germany
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- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, OrangeburgNY, USA
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- Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of SciencesBudapest, Hungary
- Institute of Psychology, University of SzegedSzeged, Hungary
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Hoonhorst I, Deltenre P, Markessis E, Collet G, Pablos Martin X, Colin C. Evidence for a dual versus single origin of the MMNs evoked by cued versus cueless deviants. Clin Neurophysiol 2012; 123:1561-7. [PMID: 22321294 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2011] [Revised: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study was designed to separately test the effect of the cued/cueless nature of deviant stimuli and that of temporal distance between sound and deviance onsets on the mismatch negativity (MMN) as well as to look for discrepancies between behavioural discrimination performances and MMN amplitude when deviants are cueless. METHODS Ten healthy adults passively listened to stimuli that were contrasted by the presence or absence of a frequency sweep starting early or late within the sound. Discrimination performances were collected after the electrophysiological sessions. RESULTS MMNs were much larger for cued than for cueless deviants. The temporal distance between sound and deviance onsets affected MMNs evoked by both cued and cueless deviants, even to the point of abolishing the MMN when cueless deviance occurred late in the stimulus. Behavioural data were at ceiling levels for all conditions, contrasting with the absence of MMN evoked by cueless deviants with late onset. CONCLUSIONS Two mechanisms contribute to the MMN evoked by cued deviants: the memory comparison process and the adaptation/fresh-afferent one. Within the temporal window of integration, the delay at which each component disappears is different. SIGNIFICANCE Comparing waveforms evoked by cued versus cueless deviants provides a fairly simple way of isolating the MMN memory-based component.
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- I Hoonhorst
- Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Schwartze M, Tavano A, Schröger E, Kotz SA. Temporal aspects of prediction in audition: cortical and subcortical neural mechanisms. Int J Psychophysiol 2011; 83:200-7. [PMID: 22108539 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2011] [Accepted: 11/06/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Tracing the temporal structure of acoustic events is crucial in order to efficiently adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. In turn, regularity in temporal structure may facilitate tracing of the acoustic signal and its likely spatial source. However, temporal processing in audition extends beyond a domain-general facilitatory function. Temporal regularity and temporal order of auditory events correspond to contextually extracted, statistically sampled relations among sounds. These relations are the backbone of prediction in audition, determining both when an event is likely to occur (temporal structure) and also what type of event can be expected at a specific point in time (formal structure, e.g. spectral information). Here, we develop a model of temporal processing in audition and speech that involves a division of labor between the cerebellum and the basal ganglia in tracing acoustic events in time. As for the cerebellum and its associated thalamo-cortical connections, we refer to its role in the automatic encoding of event-based temporal structure with high temporal precision, while the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical system engages in the attention-dependent evaluation of longer-range intervals. Recent electrophysiological and neurofunctional evidence suggests that neocortical processing of spectral structure relies on concurrent extraction of event-based temporal information. We propose that spectrotemporal predictive processes may be facilitated by subcortical coding of relevant changes in sound energy as temporal event markers.
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- Michael Schwartze
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Research Group-Neurocognition of Rhythm in Communication, Stephanstrasse 1a, Leipzig, Germany.
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Paul I, Wearden J, Bannier D, Gontier E, Le Dantec C, Rebaï M. Making decisions about time: Event-related potentials and judgements about the equality of durations. Biol Psychol 2011; 88:94-103. [PMID: 21756972 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2010] [Revised: 05/18/2011] [Accepted: 06/27/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Parmentier FBR, Elsley JV, Andrés P, Barceló F. Why are auditory novels distracting? Contrasting the roles of novelty, violation of expectation and stimulus change. Cognition 2011; 119:374-80. [PMID: 21382615 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2010] [Revised: 01/30/2011] [Accepted: 02/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Past studies show that novel auditory stimuli, presented in the context of an otherwise repeated sound, capture participants' attention away from a focal task, resulting in measurable behavioral distraction. Novel sounds are traditionally defined as rare and unexpected but past studies have not sought to disentangle these concepts directly. Using a cross-modal oddball task, we contrasted these aspects orthogonally by manipulating the base rate and conditional probabilities of sound events. We report for the first time that behavioral distraction does not result from a sound's novelty per se but from the violation of the cognitive system's expectation based on the learning of conditional probabilities and, to some extent, the occurrence of a perceptual change from one sound to another.
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Peter V, McArthur G, Thompson WF. Effect of deviance direction and calculation method on duration and frequency mismatch negativity (MMN). Neurosci Lett 2010; 482:71-5. [PMID: 20630487 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2010] [Revised: 06/22/2010] [Accepted: 07/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP) reflects the process of change detection in the auditory system. The present study investigated the effect of deviance direction (increment vs. decrement) and calculation method (traditional vs. same-stimulus) on the amplitude of MMN. MMN was recorded for increments and decrements in frequency and duration in 20 adults. The stimuli (standard/deviant) were 250 Hz/350 Hz (frequency MMN) and 200 ms/300 ms (duration MMN) for increment MMN and vice versa for decrement MMN. Amplitude of MMN was calculated in two ways: the traditional method (subtracting ERP to the standard from the deviant presented in the same block) and the same-stimulus method (subtracting ERP to identical stimuli presented as standard in one block and deviant in another block). We found that increments in frequency produced higher MMN amplitudes compared to decrements for both methods of calculation. For duration deviance, the decrement MMN was absent in the traditional method, while the decrement and increment MMN did not differ for the same-stimulus method. These findings suggest that the brain processes frequency increments and decrements in different ways. The results also suggest the use of same-stimulus method for the calculation of duration MMN when long duration stimuli are used.
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- Varghese Peter
- Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
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Weise A, Grimm S, Müller D, Schröger E. A temporal constraint for automatic deviance detection and object formation: A mismatch negativity study. Brain Res 2010; 1331:88-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2009] [Revised: 03/10/2010] [Accepted: 03/14/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Chen Y, Huang X, Luo Y, Peng C, Liu C. Differences in the neural basis of automatic auditory and visual time perception: ERP evidence from an across-modal delayed response oddball task. Brain Res 2010; 1325:100-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2009] [Revised: 10/23/2009] [Accepted: 02/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Colin C, Hoonhorst I, Markessis E, Radeau M, de Tourtchaninoff M, Foucher A, Collet G, Deltenre P. Mismatch negativity (MMN) evoked by sound duration contrasts: an unexpected major effect of deviance direction on amplitudes. Clin Neurophysiol 2008; 120:51-9. [PMID: 19028137 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2008] [Revised: 09/25/2008] [Accepted: 10/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Verify and explore unexpected results suggesting an effect of deviance direction (shorter or longer deviants) on the amplitude of MMNs evoked by sound duration contrasts. METHODS MMNs were recorded using the oddball paradigm on ten adults. Four standard stimulus durations (100, 150, 200 and 250ms) were used and deviants were 50% shorter or longer. Behavioral data (hit rates, d', and reaction times) were collected after the electrophysiological sessions. RESULTS MMNs were larger for short than for long deviants. There was no effect on MMN latencies. Hit rates and d' data were almost at ceiling level for all conditions even for the longest standard - long deviant combination in which the MMN was abolished. CONCLUSIONS We argue that the deviance direction effect on MMN amplitudes can be explained by the delay between the moment of deviance detection and the end of the deviance quantification process. SIGNIFICANCE A major effect of deviance direction on amplitudes was confirmed. This effect, which was confined to electrophysiological data, is to be taken into account when using duration contrasts to probe the processing of temporal information.
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- C Colin
- Unité de Recherches en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Belgium.
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Bortoleto Brossi A, Cristina Borba K, Dutra Garcia CF, Mirândola Barbosa Reis AC, Lima Isaac MD. Verification of the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) responses in normal adult subjects. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol 2007; 73:793-802. [PMID: 18278226 PMCID: PMC9450621 DOI: 10.1016/s1808-8694(15)31176-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2006] [Accepted: 11/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Mismatch Negativity (MMN) is used to evaluate the central auditory system. Aim to characterize the MMN, in normal subjects. Materials and Methods prospective study, 12 subjects, six males and six females, between the ages of 18 and 24. “Mann-Whytnei” test. Exams: Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA), Tympanometry, Otoacoustic Emissions and Short and Long Latency Auditory Potentials (MMN). Results in MMN variable amplitude, the mean value was of −2.757 μV and −3.548 μV, CZA1 and CZA2; of 1.435 μV and −1.867 μV, CZA1 and CZA2. In variable and medium latency, we found in 150.7ms and 153.2ms, CZA1 and CZA2; in 170.4ms and 184.0ms, CZA1 and CZA2 - for females and males respectively. Conclusion related to latency, there was significant statistical difference between the genders in relation to CZA1 and CZA2; and it was lower for females and higher for males.
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: a review. Clin Neurophysiol 2007; 118:2544-90. [PMID: 17931964 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1703] [Impact Index Per Article: 100.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2006] [Revised: 04/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/28/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the present article, the basic research using the mismatch negativity (MMN) and analogous results obtained by using the magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other brain-imaging technologies is reviewed. This response is elicited by any discriminable change in auditory stimulation but recent studies extended the notion of the MMN even to higher-order cognitive processes such as those involving grammar and semantic meaning. Moreover, MMN data also show the presence of automatic intelligent processes such as stimulus anticipation at the level of auditory cortex. In addition, the MMN enables one to establish the brain processes underlying the initiation of attention switch to, conscious perception of, sound change in an unattended stimulus stream.
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Ulrich R, Nitschke J, Rammsayer T. Crossmodal temporal discrimination: assessing the predictions of a general pacemaker-counter model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 68:1140-52. [PMID: 17355038 DOI: 10.3758/bf03193716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In this study, an extended pacemaker-counter model was applied to crossmodal temporal discrimination. In three experiments, subjects discriminated between the durations of a constant standard stimulus and a variable comparison stimulus. In congruent trials, both stimuli were presented in the same sensory modality (i.e., both visual or both auditory), whereas in incongruent trials, each stimulus was presented in a different modality. The model accounts for the finding that temporal discrimination depends on the presentation order of the sensory modalities. Nevertheless, the model fails to explain why temporal discrimination was much better with congruent than with incongruent trials. The discussion considers possibilities to accommodate the model to this and other shortcomings.
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- Rolf Ulrich
- Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Psychological Institute, University of Tübingen, Friedrichstr. 21, 72072 Tübingen, Germany.
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Lee KH, Egleston PN, Brown WH, Gregory AN, Barker AT, Woodruff PWR. The role of the cerebellum in subsecond time perception: evidence from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Cogn Neurosci 2007; 19:147-57. [PMID: 17214571 DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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In three experiments, we investigated the role of the cerebellum in sub- and suprasecond time perception by using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). In Experiment 1, subjects underwent four 8-min 1-Hz rTMS sessions in a within-subject design. rTMS sites were the medial cerebellum (real and sham rTMS), left lateral cerebellum, and right lateral cerebellum. Following each rTMS session, subjects completed a subsecond temporal bisection task (stimuli in the range 400-800 msec). Compared with sham rTMS, rTMS applied over the right lateral or medial cerebellum induced a leftward shift of the psychophysical function (perceived lengthening of time). In Experiment 2, a separate sample of subjects underwent the identical rTMS procedure and completed a suprasecond bisection task (stimuli in the 1000-2000 msec range). In this experiment, rTMS to the cerebellar sites did not produce any significant changes compared with sham rTMS. Experiment 3 employed a within-subject design to replicate findings from Experiments 1 and 2. Subjects underwent four rTMS conditions (sub- and suprabisection tasks following medial cerebellar and sham rTMS). rTMS induced a significant leftward shift of psychophysical function in the subsecond bisection, but not in the suprasecond bisection. In this study, we have demonstrated that transient cerebellar stimulation can differently affect the ability to estimate time intervals below and above a duration of 1 sec. The results of this study provide direct evidence for the role of the cerebellum in processing subsecond time intervals. This study further suggests that the perception of sub- and suprasecond intervals is likely to depend upon distinct neural systems.
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Since its discovery by Näätänen and colleagues in 1978, the mismatch negativity (MMN) has been used as an index of auditory sensory memory. The present paper explicates various possibilities of how MMN can assess memory functions, it reveals possible traps when interpreting MMN as an index of auditory memory, and it reviews recent developments of paradigms showing that memory on a short time-scale, consolidation of memory traces, and even implicit memory can be probed with MMN.
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- Erich Schröger
- Institute for Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Germany
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Grimm S, Roeber U, Trujillo-Barreto NJ, Schröger E. Mechanisms for detecting auditory temporal and spectral deviations operate over similar time windows but are divided differently between the two hemispheres. Neuroimage 2006; 32:275-82. [PMID: 16651011 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2005] [Revised: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 03/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In order to keep track of potentially relevant information in the acoustic environment, the human brain processes sounds to a high extent even when they are not attended: it extracts basic features, encodes regularities, and detects deviances. Here, we deliver evidence that the initial 300 ms of a sound contribute more to this preattentive processing than the sound's later parts. We directly compared the influence of the temporal distance relative to sound onset on the processing of the sound's duration and frequency information. The mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential indicator for preattentive feature encoding and deviance detection, was measured for infrequent duration deviants and frequency modulation deviants. The onset of either deviancy was at 100, 200, 300, or 400 ms relative to sound onset. MMN was only elicited for deviations occurring within the first 300 ms after sound onset for both types of deviants. Its neural sources were localized in supra-temporal cortices with source current density analyses (SCD) and variable resolution electromagnetic tomography (VARETA), revealing a right-hemispheric preponderance for frequency modulations but not for duration shortenings. This suggests that preattentive deviance detection is based upon partly diverging functional memory registers for temporal and dynamic spectral information. The influence of temporal distance on MMN in both conditions supports the view that temporal and spectral sound properties are integrated into an auditory object representation prior to preattentive deviance detection. Importantly, the decline of MMN to unattended sounds with larger temporal distance suggests that parts beyond 300 ms are less important for preattentive auditory object representation.
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- Sabine Grimm
- Kognitive einschl. Biologische Psychologie, Institut für Psychologie I, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstrasse 14-20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Sysoeva O, Takegata R, Näätänen R. Pre-attentive representation of sound duration in the human brain. Psychophysiology 2006; 43:272-6. [PMID: 16805865 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00397.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Studies using a brain index for pre-attentive change detection, the mismatch negativity (MMN), suggested distinct neuronal populations for signaling changes in sound duration and frequency. However, these studies used only durations within the temporal window of loudness summation (ca. 200 ms) in which any duration change is accompanied by a loudness change. Hence, the present study employed stimulus durations both beyond and within this temporal window in order to examine the genuine duration representation in the brain. Magnetic mismatch responses (MMNm) for duration and frequency changes were compared with each other. The equivalent current dipole (ECD) of the duration MMNm was located in the auditory cortex slightly posterior to that for the frequency MMNm irrespective of stimulus duration. The results suggested separate memory representations for sound duration and frequency in the human brain.
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- Olga Sysoeva
- Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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Gibbons H, Rammsayer TH. Electrophysiological correlates of temporal generalization: evidence for a two-process model of time perception. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 25:195-209. [PMID: 15975771 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2004] [Revised: 05/12/2005] [Accepted: 05/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In an event-related potential (ERP) study, brain correlates of temporal processing in the range of milliseconds were investigated by means of a dissociation paradigm. For this purpose, ten male and ten female subjects performed temporal and pitch generalization tasks with uni- and bidimensional stimulus variation. With difficulty held constant for both tasks, a larger frontally distributed negative slow wave was observed for pitch generalization relative to temporal generalization. This ERP pattern was consistent across uni- and bidimensional tasks of the present study but in direct contrast to prior ERP studies on temporal processing. Furthermore, for both uni- and bidimensional temporal tasks, within-task ERP analyses yielded amplitude modulation of centro-parietal P3b and fronto-central P500 as brain correlates of actively processed stimulus duration. Findings were consistent with a two-process model of temporal information processing based on a real-time comparison of the presented stimulus duration against an internal representation of the standard duration.
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- Henning Gibbons
- Georg Elias Müller Institute for Psychology, University of Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany.
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Grimm S, Schröger E. Pre-attentive and attentive processing of temporal and frequency characteristics within long sounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 25:711-21. [PMID: 16253485 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2005] [Revised: 09/02/2005] [Accepted: 09/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Attention effects on the processing of deviations in the duration and the frequency dimension of a long sound were investigated in three conditions: (1) when auditory stimuli were ignored, (2) when they were attended and frequency dimension was task-relevant, and (3) when they were attended and duration dimension was task-relevant. The mismatch negativity (MMN) of the event-related potential (ERP) to infrequent shortenings of a sound (600 ms vs. 1000 ms) and to infrequent frequency modulations at one of nine possible intervals within the sound (change from 440 Hz to 480 Hz and back to 440 Hz, e.g. in the 600-650 ms interval) was measured. Duration MMN was slightly enhanced when directing attention towards the frequency dimension but notably enhanced when attention was focused on duration. The early phase of frequency-modulated MMN was of equal amplitude in all three conditions, and the late phase was equally enlarged in both attend conditions. Interestingly, MMN to frequency-modulated deviants decreased the later the deviation occurred within the sound; there was no indication for an MMN being present in Ignore condition when frequency modulations occurred 400 ms after sound onset or later. Thus, with increasing temporal distance between the onset of a sound and the onset of a deviation within the sound (e.g. frequency modulation or sound offset), MMN for frequency modulations and duration shortenings decreases. This suggests that the initial part of a sound ( approximately 300 ms) contributes more to the unitary sound representation underlying MMN than the later parts.
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- Sabine Grimm
- Kognitive einschl. Biologische Psychologie, Institut für Psychologie I, Universität Leipzig, Seeburgstr. 14-20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Pouthas V, George N, Poline JB, Pfeuty M, Vandemoorteele PF, Hugueville L, Ferrandez AM, Lehéricy S, Lebihan D, Renault B. Neural network involved in time perception: an fMRI study comparing long and short interval estimation. Hum Brain Mapp 2005; 25:433-41. [PMID: 15852471 PMCID: PMC6871738 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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In this study, long ( approximately 1,300 ms) and short duration ( approximately 450 ms) estimation trials in an event-related functional MRI (fMRI) study were contrasted in order to reveal the regions within a time estimation network yielding increased activation with the increase of the duration to be estimated. In accordance with numerous imaging studies, our results showed that the presupplementary motor area (preSMA), the anterior cingulate, the prefrontal and parietal cortices, and the basal ganglia were involved in the estimation trials whatever the duration to be estimated. Moreover, only a subset of the regions within this distributed cortical and subcortical network yielded increased activation with increasing time, namely, the preSMA, the anterior cingulate cortex, the right inferior frontal gyrus (homolog to Broca's area), the bilateral premotor cortex, and the right caudate nucleus. This suggests that these regions are directly involved in duration estimation. We propose that the caudate-preSMA circuit, the anterior cingulate, and the premotor-inferior frontal regions may support a clock mechanism, decision and response-related processes, and active maintenance of temporal information, respectively.
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- Viviane Pouthas
- Unité de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Interval timing in the range of milliseconds to minutes is affected in a variety of neurological and psychiatric populations involving disruption of the frontal cortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and cerebellum. Our understanding of these distortions in timing and time perception are aided by the analysis of the sources of variance attributable to clock, memory, decision, and motor-control processes. The conclusion is that the representation of time depends on the integration of multiple neural systems that can be fruitfully studied in selected patient populations.
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- Warren H Meck
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Genome Sciences Research Building II, 3rd Floor, 103 Research Drive, Box 91050, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States.
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