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Beño-Ruiz-de-la-Sierra RM, Arjona-Valladares A, Hernández-García M, Fernández-Linsenbarth I, Díez Á, Fondevila Estevez S, Castaño C, Muñoz F, Sanz-Fuentenebro J, Roig-Herrero A, Molina V. Corollary Discharge Dysfunction as a Possible Substrate of Anomalous Self-experiences in Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2024; 50:1137-1146. [PMID: 37951230 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS Corollary discharge mechanism suppresses the conscious auditory sensory perception of self-generated speech and attenuates electrophysiological markers such as the auditory N1 Event-Related Potential (ERP) during Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. This phenomenon contributes to self-identification and seems to be altered in people with schizophrenia. Therefore, its alteration could be related to the anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) frequently found in these patients. STUDY DESIGN To analyze corollary discharge dysfunction as a possible substrate of ASEs, we recorded EEG ERP from 43 participants with schizophrenia and 43 healthy controls and scored ASEs with the 'Inventory of Psychotic-Like Anomalous Self-Experiences' (IPASE). Positive and negative symptoms were also scored with the 'Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for Schizophrenia' (PANSS) and with the 'Brief Negative Symptom Scale' (BNSS) respectively. The N1 components were elicited by two task conditions: (1) concurrent listening to self-pronounced vowels (talk condition) and (2) subsequent non-concurrent listening to the same previously self-uttered vowels (listen condition). STUDY RESULTS The amplitude of the N1 component elicited by the talk condition was lower compared to the listen condition in people with schizophrenia and healthy controls. However, the difference in N1 amplitude between both conditions was significantly higher in controls than in schizophrenia patients. The values of these differences in patients correlated significantly and negatively with the IPASE, PANSS, and BNSS scores. CONCLUSIONS These results corroborate previous data relating auditory N1 ERP amplitude with altered corollary discharge mechanisms in schizophrenia and support corollary discharge dysfunction as a possible underpinning of ASEs in this illness.
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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- UCM-ISCIII Center for Human Evolution and Behaviour, Madrid, Spain
- Psychobiology and Behavioural Sciences Methods Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
- Imaging Processing Laboratory, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
- Psychiatry Service, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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Beño-Ruiz-de-la-Sierra RM, Arjona-Valladares A, Hernández-García M, Fernández-Linsenbarth I, Díez Á, Roig-Herrero A, Osorio-Iriarte E, Molina V. Corollary discharge and anomalous self-experiences in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A specificity analysis. Clin Neurophysiol 2024; 166:87-95. [PMID: 39137502 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2024] [Revised: 07/24/2024] [Accepted: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The Corollary Discharge (CD) mechanism inhibits self-generated speech sound perception, appearing disrupted in schizophrenia and potentially contributing to Anomalous Self-Experiences (ASEs). However, it remains unclear if this alteration and its correlation with ASEs extend to other psychotic disorders. METHODS Electroencephalography was used to study the N1 Event-Related Potential (ERP) as an index of CD-mediated suppression in the auditory cortex across thirty-five participants with schizophrenia, twenty-six with bipolar disorder, and thirty healthy controls. Auditory N1 was elicited by two conditions: real-time listening to self-pronounced vowels while speaking through connected microphone and earphones (listen/talk -or talk condition in previous literature-) and passive listening to the same previously recorded self-uttered vowels (listen/no talk -or listen condition-). RESULTS N1 ERP amplitude was lower in the listen/talk condition compared to listen/no talk across all groups. However, N1 suppression was significantly reduced in schizophrenia, with bipolar patients showing intermediate attenuation between both groups (i.e., non-significantly different from controls). Furthermore, N1 suppression inversely correlated with ASEs severity only in schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS Dysfunction of the CD mechanism may be a defining feature of schizophrenia, where it is connected to ASEs. SIGNIFICANCE These results corroborate previous findings linking auditory N1 ERP suppression with disrupted CD mechanism in schizophrenia, but not in bipolar disorder.
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Spain
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Spain; Imaging Processing Laboratory, University of Valladolid, Spain
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- Psychiatry Department, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Spain; Psychiatry Service, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Spain.
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Li JJ, Daliri A, Kim KS, Max L. Does pre-speech auditory modulation reflect processes related to feedback monitoring or speech movement planning? BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.07.13.603344. [PMID: 39026879 PMCID: PMC11257623 DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.13.603344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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Previous studies have revealed that auditory processing is modulated during the planning phase immediately prior to speech onset. To date, the functional relevance of this pre-speech auditory modulation (PSAM) remains unknown. Here, we investigated whether PSAM reflects neuronal processes that are associated with preparing auditory cortex for optimized feedback monitoring as reflected in online speech corrections. Combining electroencephalographic PSAM data from a previous data set with new acoustic measures of the same participants' speech, we asked whether individual speakers' extent of PSAM is correlated with the implementation of within-vowel articulatory adjustments during /b/-vowel-/d/ word productions. Online articulatory adjustments were quantified as the extent of change in inter-trial formant variability from vowel onset to vowel midpoint (a phenomenon known as centering). This approach allowed us to also consider inter-trial variability in formant production and its possible relation to PSAM at vowel onset and midpoint separately. Results showed that inter-trial formant variability was significantly smaller at vowel midpoint than at vowel onset. PSAM was not significantly correlated with this amount of change in variability as an index of within-vowel adjustments. Surprisingly, PSAM was negatively correlated with inter-trial formant variability not only in the middle but also at the very onset of the vowels. Thus, speakers with more PSAM produced formants that were already less variable at vowel onset. Findings suggest that PSAM may reflect processes that influence speech acoustics as early as vowel onset and, thus, that are directly involved in motor command preparation (feedforward control) rather than output monitoring (feedback control).
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Beach SD, Tang DL, Kiran S, Niziolek CA. Pars Opercularis Underlies Efferent Predictions and Successful Auditory Feedback Processing in Speech: Evidence From Left-Hemisphere Stroke. NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (CAMBRIDGE, MASS.) 2024; 5:454-483. [PMID: 38911464 PMCID: PMC11192514 DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/25/2024]
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Hearing one's own speech allows for acoustic self-monitoring in real time. Left-hemisphere motor planning regions are thought to give rise to efferent predictions that can be compared to true feedback in sensory cortices, resulting in neural suppression commensurate with the degree of overlap between predicted and actual sensations. Sensory prediction errors thus serve as a possible mechanism of detection of deviant speech sounds, which can then feed back into corrective action, allowing for online control of speech acoustics. The goal of this study was to assess the integrity of this detection-correction circuit in persons with aphasia (PWA) whose left-hemisphere lesions may limit their ability to control variability in speech output. We recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) while 15 PWA and age-matched controls spoke monosyllabic words and listened to playback of their utterances. From this, we measured speaking-induced suppression of the M100 neural response and related it to lesion profiles and speech behavior. Both speaking-induced suppression and cortical sensitivity to deviance were preserved at the group level in PWA. PWA with more spared tissue in pars opercularis had greater left-hemisphere neural suppression and greater behavioral correction of acoustically deviant pronunciations, whereas sparing of superior temporal gyrus was not related to neural suppression or acoustic behavior. In turn, PWA who made greater corrections had fewer overt speech errors in the MEG task. Thus, the motor planning regions that generate the efferent prediction are integral to performing corrections when that prediction is violated.
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- Waisman Center, The University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
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- Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University
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- Waisman Center, The University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Tremblay P, Sato M. Movement-related cortical potential and speech-induced suppression during speech production in younger and older adults. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2024; 253:105415. [PMID: 38692095 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105415] [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: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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With age, the speech system undergoes important changes that render speech production more laborious, slower and often less intelligible. And yet, the neural mechanisms that underlie these age-related changes remain unclear. In this EEG study, we examined two important mechanisms in speech motor control: pre-speech movement-related cortical potential (MRCP), which reflects speech motor planning, and speaking-induced suppression (SIS), which indexes auditory predictions of speech motor commands, in 20 healthy young and 20 healthy older adults. Participants undertook a vowel production task which was followed by passive listening of their own recorded vowels. Our results revealed extensive differences in MRCP in older compared to younger adults. Further, while longer latencies were observed in older adults on N1 and P2, in contrast, the SIS was preserved. The observed reduced MRCP appears as a potential explanatory mechanism for the known age-related slowing of speech production, while preserved SIS suggests intact motor-to-auditory integration.
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- Pascale Tremblay
- Université Laval, Faculté de Médecine, Département de Réadaptation, Quebec City G1V 0A6, Canada; CERVO Brain Research Center, Quebec City G1J 2G3, Canada.
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- Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Kent RD. The Feel of Speech: Multisystem and Polymodal Somatosensation in Speech Production. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2024; 67:1424-1460. [PMID: 38593006 DOI: 10.1044/2024_jslhr-23-00575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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PURPOSE The oral structures such as the tongue and lips have remarkable somatosensory capacities, but understanding the roles of somatosensation in speech production requires a more comprehensive knowledge of somatosensation in the speech production system in its entirety, including the respiratory, laryngeal, and supralaryngeal subsystems. This review was conducted to summarize the system-wide somatosensory information available for speech production. METHOD The search was conducted with PubMed/Medline and Google Scholar for articles published until November 2023. Numerous search terms were used in conducting the review, which covered the topics of psychophysics, basic and clinical behavioral research, neuroanatomy, and neuroscience. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The current understanding of speech somatosensation rests primarily on the two pillars of psychophysics and neuroscience. The confluence of polymodal afferent streams supports the development, maintenance, and refinement of speech production. Receptors are both canonical and noncanonical, with the latter occurring especially in the muscles innervated by the facial nerve. Somatosensory representation in the cortex is disproportionately large and provides for sensory interactions. Speech somatosensory function is robust over the lifespan, with possible declines in advanced aging. The understanding of somatosensation in speech disorders is largely disconnected from research and theory on speech production. A speech somatoscape is proposed as the generalized, system-wide sensation of speech production, with implications for speech development, speech motor control, and speech disorders.
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Gonzalez JE, Nieto N, Brusco P, Gravano A, Kamienkowski JE. Speech-induced suppression during natural dialogues. Commun Biol 2024; 7:291. [PMID: 38459110 PMCID: PMC10923813 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05945-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024] Open
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When engaged in a conversation, one receives auditory information from the other's speech but also from their own speech. However, this information is processed differently by an effect called Speech-Induced Suppression. Here, we studied brain representation of acoustic properties of speech in natural unscripted dialogues, using electroencephalography (EEG) and high-quality speech recordings from both participants. Using encoding techniques, we were able to reproduce a broad range of previous findings on listening to another's speech, and achieving even better performances when predicting EEG signal in this complex scenario. Furthermore, we found no response when listening to oneself, using different acoustic features (spectrogram, envelope, etc.) and frequency bands, evidencing a strong effect of SIS. The present work shows that this mechanism is present, and even stronger, during natural dialogues. Moreover, the methodology presented here opens the possibility of a deeper understanding of the related mechanisms in a wider range of contexts.
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- Joaquin E Gonzalez
- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigación en Señales, Sistemas e Inteligencia Computacional, sinc(i) (Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Santa Fe, Argentina
- Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral, IMAL-UNL/CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Maestria de Explotación de Datos y Descubrimiento del Conocimiento, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Beño-Ruiz-de-la-Sierra RM, Arjona-Valladares A, Fondevila Estevez S, Fernández-Linsenbarth I, Díez Á, Molina V. Corollary discharge function in healthy controls: Evidence about self-speech and external speech processing. Eur J Neurosci 2023; 58:3705-3713. [PMID: 37635264 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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As we speak, corollary discharge mechanisms suppress the auditory conscious perception of the self-generated voice in healthy subjects. This suppression has been associated with the attenuation of the auditory N1 component. To analyse this corollary discharge phenomenon (agency and ownership), we registered the event-related potentials of 42 healthy subjects. The N1 and P2 components were elicited by spoken vowels (talk condition; agency), by played-back vowels recorded with their own voice (listen-self condition; ownership) and by played-back vowels recorded with an external voice (listen-other condition). The N1 amplitude elicited by the talk condition was smaller compared with the listen-self and listen-other conditions. There were no amplitude differences in N1 between listen-self and listen-other conditions. The P2 component did not show differences between conditions. Additionally, a peak latency analysis of N1 and P2 components between the three conditions showed no differences. These findings corroborate previous results showing that the corollary discharge mechanisms dampen sensory responses to self-generated speech (agency experience) and provide new neurophysiological evidence about the similarities in the processing of played-back vowels with our own voice (ownership experience) and with an external voice.
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
- Psychiatry Service, University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
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Cuadros J, Z-Rivera L, Castro C, Whitaker G, Otero M, Weinstein A, Martínez-Montes E, Prado P, Zañartu M. DIVA Meets EEG: Model Validation Using Formant-Shift Reflex. APPLIED SCIENCES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:7512. [PMID: 38435340 PMCID: PMC10906992 DOI: 10.3390/app13137512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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The neurocomputational model 'Directions into Velocities of Articulators' (DIVA) was developed to account for various aspects of normal and disordered speech production and acquisition. The neural substrates of DIVA were established through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), providing physiological validation of the model. This study introduces DIVA_EEG an extension of DIVA that utilizes electroencephalography (EEG) to leverage the high temporal resolution and broad availability of EEG over fMRI. For the development of DIVA_EEG, EEG-like signals were derived from original equations describing the activity of the different DIVA maps. Synthetic EEG associated with the utterance of syllables was generated when both unperturbed and perturbed auditory feedback (first formant perturbations) were simulated. The cortical activation maps derived from synthetic EEG closely resembled those of the original DIVA model. To validate DIVA_EEG, the EEG of individuals with typical voices (N = 30) was acquired during an altered auditory feedback paradigm. The resulting empirical brain activity maps significantly overlapped with those predicted by DIVA_EEG. In conjunction with other recent model extensions, DIVA_EEG lays the foundations for constructing a complete neurocomputational framework to tackle vocal and speech disorders, which can guide model-driven personalized interventions.
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- Jhosmary Cuadros
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Grupo de Bioingeniería, Decanato de Investigación, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira, San Cristóbal 5001, Venezuela
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- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Escuela de Ingeniería Civil Biomédica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2350026, Chile
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- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Escuela de Ingeniería Civil Biomédica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2350026, Chile
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- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
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- Facultad de Ingeniería, Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago 8420524, Chile
- Centro Basal Ciencia & Vida, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago 8580000, Chile
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- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Escuela de Ingeniería Civil Biomédica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2350026, Chile
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- Escuela de Fonoaudiología, Facultad de Odontología y Ciencias de la Rehabilitación, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago 7510602, Chile
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
- Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso 2390123, Chile
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Griffiths O, Jack BN, Pearson D, Elijah R, Mifsud N, Han N, Libesman S, Rita Barreiros A, Turnbull L, Balzan R, Le Pelley M, Harris A, Whitford TJ. Disrupted auditory N1, theta power and coherence suppression to willed speech in people with schizophrenia. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 37:103290. [PMID: 36535137 PMCID: PMC9792888 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The phenomenon of sensory self-suppression - also known as sensory attenuation - occurs when a person generates a perceptible stimulus (such as a sound) by performing an action (such as speaking). The sensorimotor control system is thought to actively predict and then suppress the vocal sound in the course of speaking, resulting in lowered cortical responsiveness when speaking than when passively listening to an identical sound. It has been hypothesized that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia result from a reduction in self-suppression due to a disruption of predictive mechanisms required to anticipate and suppress a specific, self-generated sound. It has further been hypothesized that this suppression is evident primarily in theta band activity. Fifty-one people, half of whom had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, were asked to repeatedly utter a single syllable, which was played back to them concurrently over headphones while EEG was continuously recorded. In other conditions, recordings of the same spoken syllables were played back to participants while they passively listened, or were played back with their onsets preceded by a visual cue. All participants experienced these conditions with their voice artificially shifted in pitch and also with their unaltered voice. Suppression was measured using event-related potentials (N1 component), theta phase coherence and power. We found that suppression was generally reduced on all metrics in the patient sample, and when voice alteration was applied. We additionally observed reduced theta coherence and power in the patient sample across all conditions. Visual cueing affected theta coherence only. In aggregate, the results suggest that sensory self-suppression of theta power and coherence is disrupted in schizophrenia.
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- Oren Griffiths
- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia; Flinders Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Adelaide, Australia.
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- Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Specialty of Psychiatry, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia; Brain Dynamics Centre, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia; Flinders Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Adelaide, Australia
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- Specialty of Psychiatry, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia; Brain Dynamics Centre, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Specialty of Psychiatry, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
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Neural Signatures of Actively Controlled Self-Motion and the Subjective Encoding of Distance. eNeuro 2022; 9:ENEURO.0137-21.2022. [PMID: 36635239 PMCID: PMC9770018 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0137-21.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Navigating through an environment requires knowledge about one's direction of self-motion (heading) and traveled distance. Behavioral studies showed that human participants can actively reproduce a previously observed travel distance purely based on visual information. Here, we employed electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the underlying neural processes. We measured, in human observers, event-related potentials (ERPs) during visually simulated straight-forward self-motion across a ground plane. The participants' task was to reproduce (active condition) double the distance of a previously seen self-displacement (passive condition) using a gamepad. We recorded the trajectories of self-motion during the active condition and played it back to the participants in a third set of trials (replay condition). We analyzed EEG activity separately for four electrode clusters: frontal (F), central (C), parietal (P), and occipital (O). When aligned to self-motion onset or offset, response modulation of the ERPs was stronger, and several ERP components had different latencies in the passive as compared with the active condition. This result is in line with the concept of predictive coding, which implies modified neural activation for self-induced versus externally induced sensory stimulation. We aligned our data also to the times when subjects passed the (objective) single distance d_obj and the (subjective) single distance d_sub. Remarkably, wavelet-based temporal-frequency analyses revealed enhanced theta-band activation for F, P, and O-clusters shortly before passing d_sub. This enhanced activation could be indicative of a navigation related representation of subjective distance. More generally, our study design allows to investigate subjective perception without interfering neural activation because of the required response action.
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Marcinkowska AB, Biancardi VC, Winklewski PJ. Arginine Vasopressin, Synaptic Plasticity, and Brain Networks. Curr Neuropharmacol 2022; 20:2292-2302. [PMID: 35193483 PMCID: PMC9890292 DOI: 10.2174/1570159x20666220222143532] [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: 11/02/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The arginine vasopressin (AVP), a neurohypophysial hormone, is synthesized within specific sites of the central nervous system and axonally transported to multiple areas, acting as a neurotransmitter/ neuromodulator. In this context, AVP acts primarily through vasopressin receptors A and B and is involved in regulating complex social and cognition behaviors and basic autonomic function. Many earlier studies have shown that AVP as a neuromodulator affects synaptic plasticity. This review updates our current understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms by which AVP affects synaptic plasticity. Moreover, we discuss AVP modulatory effects on event-related potentials and blood oxygen level-dependent responses in specific brain structures, and AVP effects on the network level oscillatory activity. We aimed at providing an overview of the AVP effects on the brain from the synaptic to the network level.
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- Anna B. Marcinkowska
- Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- 2-nd Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology, Auburn University, and Center for Neurosciences Initiative, Auburn University, Auburn, USA
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- 2-nd Department of Radiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- Department of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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Sheldon AD, Kafadar E, Fisher V, Greenwald MS, Aitken F, Negreira AM, Woods SW, Powers AR. Perceptual pathways to hallucinogenesis. Schizophr Res 2022; 245:77-89. [PMID: 35216865 PMCID: PMC9232894 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Recent advances in computational psychiatry have provided unique insights into the neural and cognitive underpinnings of psychotic symptoms. In particular, a host of new data has demonstrated the utility of computational frameworks for understanding how hallucinations might arise from alterations in typical perceptual processing. Of particular promise are models based in Bayesian inference that link hallucinatory perceptual experiences to latent states that may drive them. In this piece, we move beyond these findings to ask: how and why do these latent states arise, and how might we take advantage of heterogeneity in that process to develop precision approaches to the treatment of hallucinations? We leverage specific models of Bayesian inference to discuss components that might lead to the development of hallucinations. Using the unifying power of our model, we attempt to place disparate findings in the study of psychotic symptoms within a common framework. Finally, we suggest directions for future elaboration of these models in the service of a more refined psychiatric nosology based on predictable, testable, and ultimately treatable information processing derangements.
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- Andrew D Sheldon
- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- School of Biomedical and Imaging Sciences, Kings College, London, UK
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- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, United States of America.
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Pérez A, Davis MH, Ince RAA, Zhang H, Fu Z, Lamarca M, Lambon Ralph MA, Monahan PJ. Timing of brain entrainment to the speech envelope during speaking, listening and self-listening. Cognition 2022; 224:105051. [PMID: 35219954 PMCID: PMC9112165 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
This study investigates the dynamics of speech envelope tracking during speech production, listening and self-listening. We use a paradigm in which participants listen to natural speech (Listening), produce natural speech (Speech Production), and listen to the playback of their own speech (Self-Listening), all while their neural activity is recorded with EEG. After time-locking EEG data collection and auditory recording and playback, we used a Gaussian copula mutual information measure to estimate the relationship between information content in the EEG and auditory signals. In the 2-10 Hz frequency range, we identified different latencies for maximal speech envelope tracking during speech production and speech perception. Maximal speech tracking takes place approximately 110 ms after auditory presentation during perception and 25 ms before vocalisation during speech production. These results describe a specific timeline for speech tracking in speakers and listeners in line with the idea of a speech chain and hence, delays in communication.
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- Alejandro Pérez
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada; Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada; Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
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- Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
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Biagianti B, Bigoni D, Maggioni E, Brambilla P. Can neuroimaging-based biomarkers predict response to cognitive remediation in patients with psychosis? A state-of-the-art review. J Affect Disord 2022; 305:196-205. [PMID: 35283181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cognitive Remediation (CR) is designed to halt the pathological neural systems that characterize major psychotic disorders (MPD), and its main objective is to improve cognitive functioning. The magnitude of CR-induced cognitive gains greatly varies across patients with MPD, with up to 40% of patients not showing gains in global cognitive performance. This is likely due to the high degree of heterogeneity in neural activation patterns underlying cognitive endophenotypes, and to inter-individual differences in neuroplastic potential, cortical organization and interaction between brain systems in response to learning. Here, we review studies that used neuroimaging to investigate which biomarkers could potentially serve as predictors of treatment response to CR in MPD. METHODS This systematic review followed the PRISMA guidelines. An electronic database search (Embase, Elsevier; Scopus, PsycINFO, APA; PubMed, APA) was conducted in March 2021. peer-reviewed, English-language studies were included if they reported data for adults aged 18+ with MPD, reported findings from randomized controlled trials or single-arm trials of CR; and presented neuroimaging data. RESULTS Sixteen studies were included and eight neuroimaging-based biomarkers were identified. Auditory mismatch negativity (3 studies), auditory steady-state response (1), gray matter morphology (3), white matter microstructure (1), and task-based fMRI (7) can predict response to CR. Efference copy corollary/discharge, resting state, and thalamo-cortical connectivity (1) require further research prior to being implemented. CONCLUSIONS Translational research on neuroimaging-based biomarkers can help elucidate the mechanisms by which CR influences the brain's functional architecture, better characterize psychotic subpopulations, and ultimately deliver CR that is optimized and personalized.
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- Bruno Biagianti
- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Sato M. Motor and visual influences on auditory neural processing during speaking and listening. Cortex 2022; 152:21-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ford JM, Roach BJ, Mathalon DH. Vocalizing and singing reveal complex patterns of corollary discharge function in schizophrenia. Int J Psychophysiol 2021; 164:30-40. [PMID: 33621618 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION As we vocalize, our brains generate predictions of the sounds we produce to enable suppression of neural responses when intentions match vocalizations and to make adjustments when they do not. This may be instantiated by efference copy and corollary discharge mechanisms, which are impaired in people with schizophrenia (SZ). Although innate, these mechanisms can be affected by intentions. We asked if attending to pitch during vocalizations would take these mechanisms "off-line" and reduce suppression. METHODS Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded from 96 SZ and 92 healthy controls (HC) as they vocalized triplets in monotone (Phrase) or sang triplets in ascending thirds (Pitch). Pre-vocalization activity (Bereitschaftspotential, BP), N1, and P2 ERP components to sounds were compared during vocalization and playback. RESULTS N1 was not as suppressed during Pitch as during Phrase. N1 suppression was not affected by SZ in either task when all data were collapsed across pitches (Pitch) and positions (Phrase). However, when binned according to vocalization performance, SZ showed less N1 suppression than HC at longer (>2 s) inter-stimulus intervals (Phrase) and inconsistent suppression across pitches (Pitch). Unlike N1, P2 was more suppressed during Pitch than Phrase and not affected by SZ. BP was greater during vocalization than playback but did not contribute to N1 or P2 effects. Pitch variability was inversely related to negative symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Neural processing is not suppressed when patients and controls sing, and corollary discharge abnormalities in schizophrenia are only seen at long vocalization intervals.
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- Judith M Ford
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America; Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, United States of America.
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- Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, United States of America
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America; Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, United States of America
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Roach BJ, Ford JM, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Mathalon DH. Theta Phase Synchrony Is Sensitive to Corollary Discharge Abnormalities in Early Illness Schizophrenia but Not in the Psychosis Risk Syndrome. Schizophr Bull 2021; 47:415-423. [PMID: 32793958 PMCID: PMC7965080 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prior studies have shown that the auditory N1 event-related potential component elicited by self-generated vocalizations is reduced relative to played back vocalizations, putatively reflecting a corollary discharge mechanism. Schizophrenia patients and psychosis risk syndrome (PRS) youth show deficient N1 suppression during vocalization, consistent with corollary discharge dysfunction. Because N1 is an admixture of theta (4-7 Hz) power and phase synchrony, we examined their contributions to N1 suppression during vocalization, as well as their sensitivity, relative to N1, to corollary discharge dysfunction in schizophrenia and PRS individuals. METHODS Theta phase and power values were extracted from electroencephalography data acquired from PRS youth (n = 71), early illness schizophrenia patients (ESZ; n = 84), and healthy controls (HCs; n = 103) as they said "ah" (Talk) and then listened to the playback of their vocalizations (Listen). A principal component analysis extracted theta intertrial coherence (ITC; phase consistency) and event-related spectral power, peaking in the N1 latency range. Talk-Listen suppression scores were analyzed. RESULTS Talk-Listen suppression was greater for theta ITC (Cohen's d = 1.46) than for N1 in HC (d = 0.63). Both were deficient in ESZ, but only N1 suppression was deficient in PRS. When deprived of variance shared with theta ITC suppression, N1 suppression no longer differentiated ESZ and PRS individuals from HC. Deficits in theta ITC suppression were correlated with delusions (P = .007) in ESZ. Theta power suppression did not differentiate groups. CONCLUSIONS Theta ITC-suppression during vocalization is a more sensitive index of corollary discharge-mediated auditory cortical suppression than N1 suppression and is more sensitive to corollary discharge dysfunction in ESZ than in PRS individuals.
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- Brian J Roach
- Psychiatry Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
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- Psychiatry Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Psychiatry Service, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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Johnson JF, Belyk M, Schwartze M, Pinheiro AP, Kotz SA. Expectancy changes the self-monitoring of voice identity. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 53:2681-2695. [PMID: 33638190 PMCID: PMC8252045 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Self‐voice attribution can become difficult when voice characteristics are ambiguous, but functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigations of such ambiguity are sparse. We utilized voice‐morphing (self‐other) to manipulate (un‐)certainty in self‐voice attribution in a button‐press paradigm. This allowed investigating how levels of self‐voice certainty alter brain activation in brain regions monitoring voice identity and unexpected changes in voice playback quality. FMRI results confirmed a self‐voice suppression effect in the right anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) when self‐voice attribution was unambiguous. Although the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was more active during a self‐generated compared to a passively heard voice, the putative role of this region in detecting unexpected self‐voice changes during the action was demonstrated only when hearing the voice of another speaker and not when attribution was uncertain. Further research on the link between right aSTG and IFG is required and may establish a threshold monitoring voice identity in action. The current results have implications for a better understanding of the altered experience of self‐voice feedback in auditory verbal hallucinations.
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- Joseph F Johnson
- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Thakkar KN, Mathalon DH, Ford JM. Reconciling competing mechanisms posited to underlie auditory verbal hallucinations. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20190702. [PMID: 33308062 PMCID: PMC7741078 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Perception is not the passive registration of incoming sensory data. Rather, it involves some analysis by synthesis, based on past experiences and context. One adaptive consequence of this arrangement is imagination-the ability to richly simulate sensory experiences, interrogate and manipulate those simulations, in service of action and decision making. In this paper, we will discuss one possible cost of this adaptation, namely hallucinations-perceptions without sensory stimulation, which characterize serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia, but which also occur in neurological illnesses, and-crucially for the present piece-are common also in the non-treatment-seeking population. We will draw upon a framework for imagination that distinguishes voluntary from non-voluntary experiences and explore the extent to which the varieties and features of hallucinations map onto this distinction, with a focus on auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs)-colloquially, hearing voices. We will propose that sense of agency for the act of imagining is key to meaningfully dissecting different forms and features of AVHs, and we will outline the neural, cognitive and phenomenological sequelae of this sense. We will conclude that a compelling unifying framework for action, perception and belief-predictive processing-can incorporate observations regarding sense of agency, imagination and hallucination. This article is part of the theme issue 'Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.
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- Katharine N. Thakkar
- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA
- Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA
- Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Neural Correlates of Vocal Auditory Feedback Processing: Unique Insights from Electrocorticography Recordings in a Human Cochlear Implant User. eNeuro 2021; 8:ENEURO.0181-20.2020. [PMID: 33419861 PMCID: PMC7877459 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0181-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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There is considerable interest in understanding cortical processing and the function of top-down and bottom-up human neural circuits that control speech production. Research efforts to investigate these circuits are aided by analysis of spectro-temporal response characteristics of neural activity recorded by electrocorticography (ECoG). Further, cortical processing may be altered in the case of hearing-impaired cochlear implant (CI) users, as electric excitation of the auditory nerve creates a markedly different neural code for speech compared with that of the functionally intact hearing system. Studies of cortical activity in CI users typically record scalp potentials and are hampered by stimulus artifact contamination and by spatiotemporal filtering imposed by the skull. We present a unique case of a CI user who required direct recordings from the cortical surface using subdural electrodes implanted for epilepsy assessment. Using experimental conditions where the subject vocalized in the presence (CIs ON) or absence (CIs OFF) of auditory feedback, or listened to playback of self-vocalizations without production, we observed ECoG activity primarily in γ (32–70 Hz) and high γ (70–150 Hz) bands at focal regions on the lateral surface of the superior temporal gyrus (STG). High γ band responses differed in their amplitudes across conditions and cortical sites, possibly reflecting different rates of stimulus presentation and differing levels of neural adaptation. STG γ responses to playback and vocalization with auditory feedback were not different from responses to vocalization without feedback, indicating this activity reflects not only auditory, but also attentional, efference-copy, and sensorimotor processing during speech production.
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Gutiérrez-Domínguez F, Kotz SA. Real and imagined sensory feedback have comparable effects on action anticipation. Cortex 2020; 130:290-301. [PMID: 32698087 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Revised: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The forward model monitors the success of sensory feedback to an action and links it to an efference copy originating in the motor system. The Readiness Potential (RP) of the electroencephalogram has been denoted as a neural signature of the efference copy. An open question is whether imagined sensory feedback works similarly to real sensory feedback. We investigated the RP to audible and imagined sounds in a button-press paradigm and assessed the role of sound complexity (vocal vs. non-vocal sound). Sensory feedback (both audible and imagined) in response to a voluntary action modulated the RP amplitude time-locked to the button press. The RP amplitude increase was larger for actions with expected sensory feedback (audible and imagined) than those without sensory feedback, and associated with N1 suppression for audible sounds. Further, the early RP phase was increased when actions elicited an imagined vocal (self-voice) compared to non-vocal sound. Our results support the notion that sensory feedback is anticipated before voluntary actions. This is the case for both audible and imagined sensory feedback and confirms a role of overt and covert feedback in the forward model.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Amorim M, Coentre R, Levy P, Kotz SA. Changes in motor preparation affect the sensory consequences of voice production in voice hearers. Neuropsychologia 2020; 146:107531. [PMID: 32553846 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal symptom of psychosis but are also present in 6-13% of the general population. Alterations in sensory feedback processing are a likely cause of AVH, indicative of changes in the forward model. However, it is unknown whether such alterations are related to anomalies in forming an efference copy during action preparation, selective for voices, and similar along the psychosis continuum. By directly comparing psychotic and nonclinical voice hearers (NCVH), the current study specifies whether and how AVH proneness modulates both the efference copy (Readiness Potential) and sensory feedback processing for voices and tones (N1, P2) with event-related brain potentials (ERPs). METHODS Controls with low AVH proneness (n = 15), NCVH (n = 16) and first-episode psychotic patients with AVH (n = 16) engaged in a button-press task with two types of stimuli: self-initiated and externally generated self-voices or tones during EEG recordings. RESULTS Groups differed in sensory feedback processing of expected and actual feedback: NCVH displayed an atypically enhanced N1 to self-initiated voices, while N1 suppression was reduced in psychotic patients. P2 suppression for voices and tones was strongest in NCVH, but absent for voices in patients. Motor activity preceding the button press was reduced in NCVH and patients, specifically for sensory feedback to self-voice in NCVH. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that selective changes in sensory feedback to voice are core to AVH. These changes already show in preparatory motor activity, potentially reflecting changes in forming an efference copy. The results provide partial support for continuum models of psychosis.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Serviço de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte EPE, Lisboa, Portugal; Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Serviço de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte EPE, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Schmitt LM, Wang J, Pedapati EV, Thurman AJ, Abbeduto L, Erickson CA, Sweeney JA. A neurophysiological model of speech production deficits in fragile X syndrome. Brain Commun 2019; 2. [PMID: 32924010 PMCID: PMC7425415 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcz042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited intellectual disability and monogenic cause of autism spectrum disorder. Expressive language deficits, especially in speech production, are nearly ubiquitous among individuals with fragile X, but understanding of the neurological bases for these deficits remains limited. Speech production depends on feedforward control and the synchronization of neural oscillations between speech-related areas of frontal cortex and auditory areas of temporal cortex. Interaction in this circuitry allows the corollary discharge of intended speech generated from an efference copy of speech commands to be compared against actual speech sounds, which is critical for making adaptive adjustments to optimize future speech. We aimed to determine whether alterations in coherence between frontal and temporal cortices prior to speech production are present in individuals with fragile X and whether they relate to expressive language dysfunction. Twenty-one participants with full-mutation fragile X syndrome (aged 7-55 years, eight females) and 20 healthy controls (matched on age and sex) completed a talk/listen paradigm during high-density EEG recordings. During the talk task, participants repeated pronounced short vocalizations of 'Ah' every 1-2 s for a total of 180 s. During the listen task, participants passively listened to their recordings from the talk task. We compared pre-speech event-related potential activity, N1 suppression to speech sounds, single trial gamma power and fronto-temporal coherence between groups during these tasks and examined their relation to performance during a naturalistic language task. Prior to speech production, fragile X participants showed reduced pre-speech negativity, reduced fronto-temporal connectivity and greater frontal gamma power compared to controls. N1 suppression during self-generated speech did not differ between groups. Reduced pre-speech activity and increased frontal gamma power prior to speech production were related to less intelligible speech as well as broader social communication deficits in fragile X syndrome. Our findings indicate that coordinated pre-speech activity between frontal and temporal cortices is disrupted in individuals with fragile X in a clinically relevant way and represents a mechanism contributing to prominent speech production problems in the disorder.
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- Lauren M Schmitt
- Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Gutierrez F, Kotz SA. When temporal prediction errs: ERP responses to delayed action-feedback onset. Neuropsychologia 2019; 134:107200. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2019] [Revised: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Knolle F, Schwartze M, Schröger E, Kotz SA. Auditory Predictions and Prediction Errors in Response to Self-Initiated Vowels. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:1146. [PMID: 31708737 PMCID: PMC6823252 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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It has been suggested that speech production is accomplished by an internal forward model, reducing processing activity directed to self-produced speech in the auditory cortex. The current study uses an established N1-suppression paradigm comparing self- and externally initiated natural speech sounds to answer two questions: (1) Are forward predictions generated to process complex speech sounds, such as vowels, initiated via a button press? (2) Are prediction errors regarding self-initiated deviant vowels reflected in the corresponding ERP components? Results confirm an N1-suppression in response to self-initiated speech sounds. Furthermore, our results suggest that predictions leading to the N1-suppression effect are specific, as self-initiated deviant vowels do not elicit an N1-suppression effect. Rather, self-initiated deviant vowels elicit an enhanced N2b and P3a compared to externally generated deviants, externally generated standard, or self-initiated standards, again confirming prediction specificity. Results show that prediction errors are salient in self-initiated auditory speech sounds, which may lead to more efficient error correction in speech production.
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- Franziska Knolle
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Neuroradiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Dogge M, Custers R, Aarts H. Moving Forward: On the Limits of Motor-Based Forward Models. Trends Cogn Sci 2019; 23:743-753. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Benrimoh D, Parr T, Adams RA, Friston K. Hallucinations both in and out of context: An active inference account. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0212379. [PMID: 31430277 PMCID: PMC6701798 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Hallucinations, including auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), occur in both the healthy population and in psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia (often developing after a prodromal period). In addition, hallucinations can be in-context (they can be consistent with the environment, such as when one hallucinates the end of a sentence that has been repeated many times), or out-of-context (such as the bizarre hallucinations associated with schizophrenia). In previous work, we introduced a model of hallucinations as false (positive) inferences based on a (Markov decision process) formulation of active inference. In this work, we extend this model to include content–to disclose the computational mechanisms behind in- and out-of-context hallucinations. In active inference, sensory information is used to disambiguate alternative hypotheses about the causes of sensations. Sensory information is balanced against prior beliefs, and when this balance is tipped in the favor of prior beliefs, hallucinations can occur. We show that in-context hallucinations arise when (simulated) subjects cannot use sensory information to correct prior beliefs about hearing a voice, but beliefs about content (i.e. the sequential order of a sentence) remain accurate. When hallucinating subjects also have inaccurate beliefs about state transitions, out-of-context hallucinations occur; i.e. their hallucinated speech content is disordered. Note that out-of-context hallucinations in this setting does not refer to inference about context, but rather to false perceptual inference that emerges when the confidence in–or precision of–sensory evidence is reduced. Furthermore, subjects with inaccurate beliefs about state transitions but an intact ability to use sensory information do not hallucinate and are reminiscent of prodromal patients. This work demonstrates the different computational mechanisms that may underlie the spectrum of hallucinatory experience–from the healthy population to psychotic states.
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- David Benrimoh
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
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Mathalon DH, Roach BJ, Ferri JM, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Perez VB, Trujillo TH, Ford JM. Deficient auditory predictive coding during vocalization in the psychosis risk syndrome and in early illness schizophrenia: the final expanded sample. Psychol Med 2019; 49:1897-1904. [PMID: 30249315 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291718002659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND During vocalization, efference copy/corollary discharge mechanisms suppress the auditory cortical response to self-generated sounds. Previously, we found attenuated vocalization-related auditory cortical suppression in psychosis and a similar trend in the psychosis risk syndrome. Here, we report data from the final sample of early illness schizophrenia patients (ESZ), individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded from ESZ (n = 84), CHR (n = 71), and HC (n = 103) participants during a vocalization paradigm. The N1 ERP component was elicited during production (Talk) and playback (Listen) of vocalization. Age effects on N1 suppression (Talk-Listen), Talk N1, and Listen N1 were compared across groups. N1 measures were adjusted for normal aging before testing for group differences. RESULTS Both ESZ and CHR groups showed reduced Talk-Listen N1 suppression relative to HC, but did not differ from each other. Listen N1 was reduced in ESZ, but not in CHR, relative to HC. Deficient Talk-Listen N1 suppression was associated with greater unusual thought content in CHR individuals. N1 suppression increased with age in HC (12-36 years), and while CHR individuals showed a similar age-related increase, no such relationship was evident in ESZ. CONCLUSIONS Putative efference copy/corollary discharge-mediated auditory cortical suppression during vocalization is deficient in ESZ and precedes psychosis onset, particularly in CHR individuals with greater unusual thought content. Furthermore, this suppression increases from adolescence through early adulthood, likely reflecting the effects of normal brain maturation. This maturation effect is disrupted in ESZ, presumably due to countervailing illness effects.
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- Daniel H Mathalon
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), Alliant International University, San Diego, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA,USA
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Burgess JD, Major BP, McNeel C, Clark GM, Lum JAG, Enticott PG. Learning to Expect: Predicting Sounds During Movement Is Related to Sensorimotor Association During Listening. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:215. [PMID: 31333431 PMCID: PMC6624421 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sensory experiences, such as sound, often result from our motor actions. Over time, repeated sound-producing performance can generate sensorimotor associations. However, it is not clear how sensory and motor information are associated. Here, we explore if sensory prediction is associated with the formation of sensorimotor associations during a learning task. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) while participants produced index and little finger-swipes on a bespoke device, generating novel sounds. ERPs were also obtained as participants heard those sounds played back. Peak suppression was compared to assess sensory prediction. Additionally, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used during listening to generate finger-motor evoked potentials (MEPs). MEPs were recorded before and after training upon hearing these sounds, and then compared to reveal sensorimotor associations. Finally, we explored the relationship between these components. Results demonstrated that an increased positive-going peak (e.g., P2) and a suppressed negative-going peak (e.g., N2) were recorded during action, revealing some sensory prediction outcomes (P2: p = 0.050, ηp2 = 0.208; N2: p = 0.001, ηp2 = 0.474). Increased MEPs were also observed upon hearing congruent sounds compared with incongruent sounds (i.e., associated to a finger), demonstrating precise sensorimotor associations that were not present before learning (Index finger: p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.614; Little finger: p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.529). Consistent with our broad hypotheses, a negative association between the MEPs in one finger during listening and ERPs during performance of the other was observed (Index finger MEPs and Fz N1 action ERPs; r = −0.655, p = 0.003). Overall, data suggest that predictive mechanisms are associated with the fine-tuning of sensorimotor associations.
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- Jed D Burgess
- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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Whitford TJ. Speaking-Induced Suppression of the Auditory Cortex in Humans and Its Relevance to Schizophrenia. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2019; 4:791-804. [PMID: 31399393 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Speaking-induced suppression (SIS) is the phenomenon that the sounds one generates by overt speech elicit a smaller neurophysiological response in the auditory cortex than comparable sounds that are externally generated. SIS is a specific example of the more general phenomenon of self-suppression. SIS has been well established in nonhuman animals and is believed to involve the action of corollary discharges. This review summarizes, first, the evidence for SIS in heathy human participants, where it has been most commonly assessed with electroencephalography and/or magnetoencephalography using an experimental paradigm known as "Talk-Listen"; and second, the growing number of Talk-Listen studies that have reported subnormal levels of SIS in patients with schizophrenia. This result is theoretically significant, as it provides a plausible explanation for some of the most distinctive and characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia, namely the first-rank symptoms. In particular, while the failure to suppress the neural consequences of self-generated movements (such as those associated with overt speech) provides a prima facie explanation for delusions of control, the failure to suppress the neural consequences of self-generated inner speech provides a plausible explanation for certain classes of auditory-verbal hallucinations, such as audible thoughts. While the empirical evidence for a relationship between SIS and the first-rank symptoms is currently limited, I predict that future studies with more sensitive experimental designs will confirm its existence. Establishing the existence of a causal, mechanistic relationship would represent a major step forward in our understanding of schizophrenia, which is a necessary precursor to the development of novel treatments.
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- Thomas J Whitford
- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Altered auditory feedback perception following an 8-week mindfulness meditation practice. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 138:38-46. [PMID: 30703400 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Our own ongoing motor actions are perceived through sensory feedback pathways, and are integrated with neural processes to modulate further actions. This sensory feedback mechanism is known to contribute to the rehabilitation of impaired motor functions. Recent evidence also suggests that mindfulness meditation improves our awareness to sensation; therefore, enhancement of awareness to sensory feedback through mindfulness meditation training may have potential clinical applications. This study investigated an effect of eight-week practice of mindfulness meditation on speech perception/production processes. Among the thirty healthy participants, half of them engaged in regular meditation practice of 10 min per day for eight weeks, and the other half were not given any instructions for their daily life. The change of speech performance in sentence reading under 200 ms delayed auditory feedback (DAF) condition were assessed compared to without delay condition. Also, event-related potential response to the short sound of /a/, were measured. The result showed that, after the eight-week practice, the meditation group showed significantly improved speech fluency in the DAF condition, when 16-min meditation was introduced before the experiments. Furthermore, significantly increased auditory evoked potentials were observed in the central-parietal region when the participants listened to the delayed auditory feedback sound of their own voice. These findings provide the first glimpses into the possible relationship between mindfulness meditation and auditory feedback. Different instructions for daily activity between the meditation and control groups should be considered in further studies.
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Efference copy/corollary discharge function and targeted cognitive training in patients with schizophrenia. Int J Psychophysiol 2018; 145:91-98. [PMID: 30599145 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 12/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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INTRODUCTION During vocalization, efference copy/corollary discharge mechanisms suppress the auditory cortical response to self-generated sounds as reflected in the N1 component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP). N1 suppression during talking is reduced in patients with schizophrenia. We hypothesized that these deficits would recover with auditory training that targets the speech processing system. METHODS Forty-nine individuals early in the course of a schizophrenia-spectrum illness (ESZ) were randomly assigned to 40 h of Targeted Auditory Training (TAT; n = 23) or Computer Games (CG; n = 26). The N1 ERP component was elicited during production (Talk) and playback (Listen) of vocalization. Effects of Treatment on Global Cognition, N1 suppression (Talk-Listen), N1 during Talking and Listening were assessed. Simple effects of the passage of time were also assessed in the HC after 28 weeks. RESULTS There was a Treatment × Time interaction revealing that N1 suppression was improved with TAT, but not with CG. TAT, but not CG, also improved Global Cognition. However, TAT and CG groups differed in their pre-treatment N1 suppression, and greater N1-suppression abnormalities were strongly associated with greater improvement in N1 suppression. CONCLUSIONS In this sample of ESZ individuals, targeted auditory training appeared to improve the function of the efference copy/corollary discharge mechanism which tended to deteriorate with computer games. It remains to be determined if baseline N1 suppression abnormalities are necessary for TAT treatment to have a positive effect on efference copy/corollary discharge function or if improvements observed in this study represent a regression to the mean N1 suppression in ESZ. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.govNCT00694889. Registered 1 August 2007.
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Power and phase coherence in sensorimotor mu and temporal lobe alpha components during covert and overt syllable production. Exp Brain Res 2018; 237:705-721. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-018-5447-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sato M, Shiller DM. Auditory prediction during speaking and listening. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2018; 187:92-103. [PMID: 29402437 PMCID: PMC6072625 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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In the present EEG study, the role of auditory prediction in speech was explored through the comparison of auditory cortical responses during active speaking and passive listening to the same acoustic speech signals. Two manipulations of sensory prediction accuracy were used during the speaking task: (1) a real-time change in vowel F1 feedback (reducing prediction accuracy relative to unaltered feedback) and (2) presenting a stable auditory target rather than a visual cue to speak (enhancing auditory prediction accuracy during baseline productions, and potentially enhancing the perturbing effect of altered feedback). While subjects compensated for the F1 manipulation, no difference between the auditory-cue and visual-cue conditions were found. Under visually-cued conditions, reduced N1/P2 amplitude was observed during speaking vs. listening, reflecting a motor-to-sensory prediction. In addition, a significant correlation was observed between the magnitude of behavioral compensatory F1 response and the magnitude of this speaking induced suppression (SIS) for P2 during the altered auditory feedback phase, where a stronger compensatory decrease in F1 was associated with a stronger the SIS effect. Finally, under the auditory-cued condition, an auditory repetition-suppression effect was observed in N1/P2 amplitude during the listening task but not active speaking, suggesting that auditory predictive processes during speaking and passive listening are functionally distinct.
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- Marc Sato
- Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France; Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Université de Montréal, Canada; Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada; Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, Montreal, Canada.
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Pinheiro AP, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. Voice-selective prediction alterations in nonclinical voice hearers. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14717. [PMID: 30283058 PMCID: PMC6170384 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32614-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a cardinal symptom of psychosis but also occur in 6–13% of the general population. Voice perception is thought to engage an internal forward model that generates predictions, preparing the auditory cortex for upcoming sensory feedback. Impaired processing of sensory feedback in vocalization seems to underlie the experience of AVH in psychosis, but whether this is the case in nonclinical voice hearers remains unclear. The current study used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate whether and how hallucination predisposition (HP) modulates the internal forward model in response to self-initiated tones and self-voices. Participants varying in HP (based on the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale) listened to self-generated and externally generated tones or self-voices. HP did not affect responses to self vs. externally generated tones. However, HP altered the processing of the self-generated voice: increased HP was associated with increased pre-stimulus alpha power and increased N1 response to the self-generated voice. HP did not affect the P2 response to voices. These findings confirm that both prediction and comparison of predicted and perceived feedback to a self-generated voice are altered in individuals with AVH predisposition. Specific alterations in the processing of self-generated vocalizations may establish a core feature of the psychosis continuum.
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- Ana P Pinheiro
- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. .,Neuropsychophysiology Lab, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Whitford TJ, Oestreich LKL, Ford JM, Roach BJ, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Mathalon DH. Deficits in Cortical Suppression During Vocalization are Associated With Structural Abnormalities in the Arcuate Fasciculus in Early Illness Schizophrenia and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Schizophr Bull 2018; 44:1312-1322. [PMID: 29194516 PMCID: PMC6192501 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Self-generated speech produces a smaller N1 amplitude in the auditory-evoked potential than externally generated speech; this phenomenon is known as N1-suppression. Schizophrenia patients show less N1-suppression than healthy controls. This failure to self-suppress may underlie patients' characteristic tendency to misattribute self-generated thoughts and actions to external sources. While the cause of N1-suppression deficits to speech in schizophrenia remains unclear, structural damage to the arcuate fasciculus is a candidate, due to its ostensible role in transmitting the efference copy of the motor plan to speak. Fifty-one patients with early illness schizophrenia (ESZ), 40 individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis (CHR), and 59 healthy control (HC) participants underwent an electroencephalogram while they spoke and then listened to a recording of their speech. N1-suppression to the spoken sounds was calculated. Participants also underwent a diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) scan, from which the arcuate fasciculus and pyramidal tract were extracted with deterministic tractography. ESZ patients exhibited significantly less N1-suppression to self-generated speech than HC participants, with CHR participants exhibiting intermediate levels. ESZ patients also exhibited structural abnormalities in the arcuate fasciculus-specifically, reduced fractional anisotropy and increased radial diffusivity-relative to both HC and CHR. There were no between-group differences in the structural integrity of the pyramidal tract. Finally, level of N1-suppression was linearly related to the structural integrity of the arcuate fasciculus, but not the pyramidal tract, across groups. These results suggest that the self-suppression deficits to willed speech consistently observed in schizophrenia patients may be caused, at least in part, by structural damage to the arcuate fasciculus.
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- Thomas J Whitford
- School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute and Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California—San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California—San Francisco (UCSF), 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, US; tel: +1-415-221-4810, fax: +1-415-750-6622, e-mail:
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Abnormal dynamic functional connectivity between speech and auditory areas in schizophrenia patients with auditory hallucinations. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2018; 19:918-924. [PMID: 30003029 PMCID: PMC6039841 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Purpose Auditory hallucinations (AH), typically hearing voices, are a core symptom in schizophrenia. They may result from deficits in dynamic functional connectivity (FC) between cortical regions supporting speech production and language perception that interfere with the ability to recognize self-generated speech as not coming from external sources. We tested this hypothesis by investigating dynamic connectivity between the frontal cortex region related to language production and the temporal cortex region related to auditory processing. Methods Resting-state fMRI scans were acquired from 18 schizophrenia patients with AH (AH+), 17 schizophrenia patients without AH (AH-) and 22 healthy controls. A multiband sequence with TR = 427 ms was adopted to provide relatively high temporal resolution data for characterizing dynamic FC. Analysis focused on connectivity between speech production and language comprehension areas, eloquent language cortex in the left hemisphere. Two frequency bands of brain oscillatory activity were evaluated (0.01–0.027 Hz, 0.027–0.08 Hz) in which differential alterations that have been previously linked to schizophrenia. Conventional static FC maps of these seeds were also calculated. Results Dynamic connectivity analysis indicated that AH+ patients showed not only less temporal variability but transient lower strength in connectivity between speech and auditory areas than healthy controls, while AH- patients not. These findings were restricted to 0.027–0.08 Hz activity. In static connectivity analysis, no significant differences were observed in connectivity between speech production and language comprehension areas in either frequency band. Conclusions Reduced temporal variability and connectivity strength between key regions of eloquent language cortex may represent a mechanism for AH in schizophrenia. Abnormal dynamic functional connectivity in schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations. The dynamic connectivity goes wrong between expressive and receptive language regions. The abnormality was restricted to the left hemisphere. This abnormal dynamic connectivity was limited to a specific frequency band.
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Key Words
- AH+, schizophrenia patients with AH
- AH, Auditory hallucinations
- AH-, schizophrenia patients without AH
- ANCOVA, analysis of covariance
- Auditory hallucinations
- DARTEL, Diffeomorphic Anatomical Registration Through Exponentiated Lie algebra
- Dynamic
- FC, functional connectivity
- Functional connectivity
- Language areas
- MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute
- Multiband
- PANSS, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale
- ROI, regions of interest
- SCID, Structured Interview for DSM-IV
- Schizophrenia
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Oestreich LKL, Whitford TJ, Garrido MI. Prediction of Speech Sounds Is Facilitated by a Functional Fronto-Temporal Network. Front Neural Circuits 2018; 12:43. [PMID: 29875638 PMCID: PMC5975240 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2018.00043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Predictive coding postulates that the brain continually predicts forthcoming sensory events based on past experiences in order to process sensory information and respond to unexpected events in a fast and efficient manner. Predictive coding models in the context of overt speech are believed to operate along auditory white matter pathways such as the arcuate fasciculus and the frontal aslant. The aim of this study was to investigate whether brain regions that are structurally connected via these white matter pathways are also effectively engaged when listening to externally-generated, temporally-predicable speech sounds. Using Electroencephalography (EEG) and Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) we investigated network models that are structurally connected via the arcuate fasciculus from primary auditory cortex to Wernicke’s and via Geschwind’s territory to Broca’s area. Connections between Broca’s and supplementary motor area, which are structurally connected by the frontal aslant, were also included. The results revealed that bilateral areas interconnected by indirect and direct pathways of the arcuate fasciculus, in addition to regions interconnected by the frontal aslant best explain the EEG responses to speech that is externally-generated but temporally predictable. These findings indicate that structurally connected brain regions involved in the production and processing of auditory stimuli are also effectively connected.
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- Lena K L Oestreich
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,Australian Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Bansal S, Ford JM, Spering M. The function and failure of sensory predictions. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2018; 1426:199-220. [PMID: 29683518 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Revised: 02/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Humans and other primates are equipped with neural mechanisms that allow them to automatically make predictions about future events, facilitating processing of expected sensations and actions. Prediction-driven control and monitoring of perceptual and motor acts are vital to normal cognitive functioning. This review provides an overview of corollary discharge mechanisms involved in predictions across sensory modalities and discusses consequences of predictive coding for cognition and behavior. Converging evidence now links impairments in corollary discharge mechanisms to neuropsychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions. We review studies supporting a prediction-failure hypothesis of perceptual and cognitive disturbances. We also outline neural correlates underlying prediction function and failure, highlighting similarities across the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. In linking basic psychophysical and psychophysiological evidence of visual, auditory, and somatosensory prediction failures to neuropsychiatric symptoms, our review furthers our understanding of disease mechanisms.
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- Sonia Bansal
- Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland, Catonsville, Maryland
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- University of California and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Riva G, Dakanalis A. Altered Processing and Integration of Multisensory Bodily Representations and Signals in Eating Disorders: A Possible Path Toward the Understanding of Their Underlying Causes. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:49. [PMID: 29483865 PMCID: PMC5816057 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 01/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) eating problems are the clinical core of eating disorders (EDs). However, the importance of shape and weight overvaluation symptoms in these disorders underlines the critical role of the experience of the body in the etiology of EDs. This article suggests that the transdiagnostic centrality of these symptoms in individuals with EDs may reflect a deficit in the processing and integration of multisensory bodily representations and signals. Multisensory body integration is a critical cognitive and perceptual process, allowing the individual to protect and extend her/his boundaries at both the homeostatic and psychological levels. To achieve this goal the brain integrates sensory data arriving from real-time multiple sensory modalities and internal bodily information with predictions made using the stored information about the body from conceptual, perceptual, and episodic memory. In this view the emotional, visual, tactile, proprioceptive and interoceptive deficits reported by many authors in individuals with EDs may reflect a broader impairment in multisensory body integration that affects the individual's abilities: (a) to identify the relevant interoceptive signals that predict potential pleasant (or aversive) consequences; and (b) to modify/correct the autobiographical allocentric (observer view) memories of body related events (self-objectified memories). Based on this view, the article also proposes a strategy, based on new technologies (i.e., virtual reality and brain/body stimulation), for using crossmodal associations to reactivate and correct the multisensory body integration processes.
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- Giuseppe Riva
- Centro Studi e Ricerche di Psicologia della Comunicazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
- Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IRCCS), Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Li F, Lui S, Yao L, Ji GJ, Liao W, Sweeney JA, Gong Q. Altered White Matter Connectivity Within and Between Networks in Antipsychotic-Naive First-Episode Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2018; 44:409-418. [PMID: 28520931 PMCID: PMC5814807 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Analyzing the schizophrenia connectome can identify illness-related alterations in connectivity across the brain. An important question that remains unanswered is whether connectivity alterations are already evident at the onset of illness, before treatment with antipsychotic medication and possible influences of neuroprogressive or secondary alterations related to chronic illness duration. In the present study, diffusion tensor imaging and deterministic fiber tractography were performed with 137 antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia patients and 113 matched healthy controls. Using graph theoretic analysis, groups were compared in global and regional measurements and modularity of white matter connectivity. Compared with controls, the patients showed significantly decreased total connection strength. Furthermore, patients demonstrated significantly decreased connections within and between brain modules. Several local brain regions within association cortex exhibited reduced nodal centralities and abnormal participant coefficient or intra-module degree, some of which were correlated with illness duration and overall functional disability. In never-treated schizophrenia patients, networks showed a less effective organizational pattern of white matter pathways. White matter disconnectivity occurred not only within but also between multiple modules, shedding light on the deficits of anatomical network organization early in the course of schizophrenia.
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- Fei Li
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Anhui Province, China
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- Center for Information in BioMedicine, Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,Department of Psychiatry, Stat Key Lab of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,Department of Psychology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,Department of Psychoradiology, Chengdu Mental Health Center, Chengdu, China,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology West China Hospital of Sichuan University; #37 Guo Xue Xiang, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China; tel: +86-28-8542-3503, fax: +86-28-8542-3503, e-mail:
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Feenaughty L, Basilakos A, Bonilha L, den Ouden DB, Rorden C, Stark B, Fridriksson J. Non-fluent speech following stroke is caused by impaired efference copy. Cogn Neuropsychol 2017; 34:333-346. [PMID: 29145761 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2017.1394834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Efference copy is a cognitive mechanism argued to be critical for initiating and monitoring speech: however, the extent to which breakdown of efference copy mechanisms impact speech production is unclear. This study examined the best mechanistic predictors of non-fluent speech among 88 stroke survivors. Objective speech fluency measures were subjected to a principal component analysis (PCA). The primary PCA factor was then entered into a multiple stepwise linear regression analysis as the dependent variable, with a set of independent mechanistic variables. Participants' ability to mimic audio-visual speech ("speech entrainment response") was the best independent predictor of non-fluent speech. We suggest that this "speech entrainment" factor reflects integrity of internal monitoring (i.e., efference copy) of speech production, which affects speech initiation and maintenance. Results support models of normal speech production and suggest that therapy focused on speech initiation and maintenance may improve speech fluency for individuals with chronic non-fluent aphasia post stroke.
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- Lynda Feenaughty
- a Department of Neurosciences , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , SC , USA.,b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- a Department of Neurosciences , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , SC , USA
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- b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- c Department of Psychology , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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- b Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA
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Rubin LH, Yao L, Keedy SK, Reilly JL, Bishop JR, Carter CS, Pournajafi-Nazarloo H, Drogos LL, Tamminga CA, Pearlson GD, Keshavan MS, Clementz BA, Hill SK, Liao W, Ji GJ, Lui S, Sweeney JA. Sex differences in associations of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin with resting-state functional brain connectivity. J Neurosci Res 2017; 95:576-586. [PMID: 27870395 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Revised: 06/04/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Oxytocin (OT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) exert robust and sexually dimorphic influences on cognition and emotion. How these hormones regulate relevant functional brain systems is not well understood. OT and AVP serum concentrations were assayed in 60 healthy individuals (36 women). Brain functional networks assessed with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) were constructed with graph theory-based approaches that characterize brain networks as connected nodes. Sex differences were demonstrated in rs-fMRI. Men showed higher nodal degree (connectedness) and efficiency (information propagation capacity) in left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) and higher nodal degree in left rolandic operculum. Women showed higher nodal betweenness (being part of paths between nodes) in right putamen and left inferior parietal gyrus (IPG). Higher hormone levels were associated with less intrinsic connectivity. In men, higher AVP was associated with lower nodal degree and efficiency in left IFG (pars orbitalis) and left STG and less efficiency in left IFG (pars triangularis). In women, higher AVP was associated with lower betweenness in left IPG, and higher OT was associated with lower nodal degree in left IFG (pars orbitalis). Hormones differentially correlate with brain networks that are important for emotion processing and cognition in men and women. AVP in men and OT in women may regulate orbital frontal cortex connectivity, which is important in emotion processing. Hormone associations with STG and pars triangularis in men and parietal cortex in women may account for well-established sex differences in verbal and visuospatial abilities, respectively. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Leah H Rubin
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Pharmacy and Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Yale University and Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Hartford, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
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- Department of Psychology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Information in Biomedicine, Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Predicting the sensory consequences of one's own action: First evidence for multisensory facilitation. Atten Percept Psychophys 2017; 78:2515-2526. [PMID: 27515031 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1189-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Predicting the sensory consequences of our own actions contributes to efficient sensory processing and might help distinguish the consequences of self- versus externally generated actions. Previous research using unimodal stimuli has provided evidence for the existence of a forward model, which explains how such sensory predictions are generated and used to guide behavior. However, whether and how we predict multisensory action outcomes remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated this question in two behavioral experiments. In Experiment 1, we presented unimodal (visual or auditory) and bimodal (visual and auditory) sensory feedback with various delays after a self-initiated buttonpress. Participants had to report whether they detected a delay between their buttonpress and the stimulus in the predefined task modality. In Experiment 2, the sensory feedback and task were the same as in Experiment 1, but in half of the trials the action was externally generated. We observed enhanced delay detection for bimodal relative to unimodal trials, with better performance in general for actively generated actions. Furthermore, in the active condition, the bimodal advantage was largest when the stimulus in the task-irrelevant modality was not delayed-that is, when it was time-contiguous with the action-as compared to when both the task-relevant and task-irrelevant modalities were delayed. This specific enhancement for trials with a nondelayed task-irrelevant modality was absent in the passive condition. These results suggest that a forward model creates predictions for multiple modalities, and consequently contributes to multisensory interactions in the context of action.
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Schmalenbach SB, Billino J, Kircher T, van Kemenade BM, Straube B. Links between Gestures and Multisensory Processing: Individual Differences Suggest a Compensation Mechanism. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1828. [PMID: 29085323 PMCID: PMC5650625 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Speech-associated gestures represent an important communication modality. However, individual differences in the production and perception of gestures are not well understood so far. We hypothesized that the perception of multisensory action consequences might play a crucial role. Verbal communication involves continuous calibration of audio–visual information produced by the speakers. The effective production and perception of gestures supporting this process could depend on the given capacities to perceive multisensory information accurately. We explored the association between the production and perception of gestures and the monitoring of multisensory action consequences in a sample of 31 participants. We applied a recently introduced gesture scale to assess self-reported gesture production and perception in everyday life situations. In the perceptual experiment, we presented unimodal (visual) and bimodal (visual and auditory) sensory outcomes with various delays after a self-initiated (active) or externally generated (passive) button press. Participants had to report whether they detected a delay between the button press and the visual stimulus. We derived psychometric functions for each condition and determined points of subjective equality, reflecting detection thresholds for delays. Results support a robust link between gesture scores and detection thresholds. Individuals with higher detection thresholds (lower performance) reported more frequent gesture production and perception and furthermore profited more from multisensory information in the experimental task. We propose that our findings indicate a compensational function of multisensory processing as a basis for individual differences in both action outcome monitoring and gesture production and perception in everyday life situations.
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- Simon B Schmalenbach
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Cao L, Veniero D, Thut G, Gross J. Role of the Cerebellum in Adaptation to Delayed Action Effects. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2442-2451.e3. [PMID: 28781049 PMCID: PMC5571438 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Actions are typically associated with sensory consequences. For example, knocking at a door results in predictable sounds. These self-initiated sensory stimuli are known to elicit smaller cortical responses compared to passively presented stimuli, e.g., early auditory evoked magnetic fields known as M100 and M200 components are attenuated. Current models implicate the cerebellum in the prediction of the sensory consequences of our actions. However, causal evidence is largely missing. In this study, we introduced a constant delay (of 100 ms) between actions and action-associated sounds, and we recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) data as participants adapted to the delay. We found an increase in the attenuation of the M100 component over time for self-generated sounds, which indicates cortical adaptation to the introduced delay. In contrast, no change in M200 attenuation was found. Interestingly, disrupting cerebellar activity via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) abolished the adaptation of M100 attenuation, while the M200 attenuation reverses to an M200 enhancement. Our results provide causal evidence for the involvement of the cerebellum in adapting to delayed action effects, and thus in the prediction of the sensory consequences of our actions.
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- Liyu Cao
- School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; Department of Psychology (III), University of Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany.
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- School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK
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Echoes on the motor network: how internal motor control structures afford sensory experience. Brain Struct Funct 2017; 222:3865-3888. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-017-1484-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Roberts TF, Hisey E, Tanaka M, Kearney M, Chattree G, Yang CF, Shah NM, Mooney R. Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning. Nat Neurosci 2017; 20:978-986. [PMID: 28504672 PMCID: PMC5572074 DOI: 10.1038/nn.4563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Learning to vocalize depends on the ability to adaptively modify the temporal and spectral features of vocal elements. Neurons that convey motor-related signals to the auditory system are theorized to facilitate vocal learning, but the identity and function of such neurons remain unknown. Here we identify a previously unknown neuron type in the songbird brain that transmits vocal motor signals to the auditory cortex. Genetically ablating these neurons in juveniles disrupted their ability to imitate features of an adult tutor's song. Ablating these neurons in adults had little effect on previously learned songs but interfered with their ability to adaptively modify the duration of vocal elements and largely prevented the degradation of songs' temporal features that is normally caused by deafening. These findings identify a motor to auditory circuit essential to vocal imitation and to the adaptive modification of vocal timing.
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- Todd F. Roberts
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Neural synchronization deficits linked to cortical hyper-excitability and auditory hypersensitivity in fragile X syndrome. Mol Autism 2017; 8:22. [PMID: 28596820 PMCID: PMC5463459 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-017-0140-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Studies in the fmr1 KO mouse demonstrate hyper-excitability and increased high-frequency neuronal activity in sensory cortex. These abnormalities may contribute to prominent and distressing sensory hypersensitivities in patients with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The current study investigated functional properties of auditory cortex using a sensory entrainment task in FXS. Methods EEG recordings were obtained from 17 adolescents and adults with FXS and 17 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Participants heard an auditory chirp stimulus generated using a 1000-Hz tone that was amplitude modulated by a sinusoid linearly increasing in frequency from 0–100 Hz over 2 s. Results Single trial time-frequency analyses revealed decreased gamma band phase-locking to the chirp stimulus in FXS, which was strongly coupled with broadband increases in gamma power. Abnormalities in gamma phase-locking and power were also associated with theta-gamma amplitude-amplitude coupling during the pre-stimulus period and with parent reports of heightened sensory sensitivities and social communication deficits. Conclusions This represents the first demonstration of neural entrainment alterations in FXS patients and suggests that fast-spiking interneurons regulating synchronous high-frequency neural activity have reduced functionality. This reduced ability to synchronize high-frequency neural activity was related to the total power of background gamma band activity. These observations extend findings from fmr1 KO models of FXS, characterize a core pathophysiological aspect of FXS, and may provide a translational biomarker strategy for evaluating promising therapeutics. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13229-017-0140-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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