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Layer N, Abdel-Latif KHA, Radecke JO, Müller V, Weglage A, Lang-Roth R, Walger M, Sandmann P. Effects of noise and noise reduction on audiovisual speech perception in cochlear implant users: An ERP study. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 154:141-156. [PMID: 37611325 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.07.009] [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: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Hearing with a cochlear implant (CI) is difficult in noisy environments, but the use of noise reduction algorithms, specifically ForwardFocus, can improve speech intelligibility. The current event-related potentials (ERP) study examined the electrophysiological correlates of this perceptual improvement. METHODS Ten bimodal CI users performed a syllable-identification task in auditory and audiovisual conditions, with syllables presented from the front and stationary noise presented from the sides. Brainstorm was used for spatio-temporal evaluation of ERPs. RESULTS CI users revealed an audiovisual benefit as reflected by shorter response times and greater activation in temporal and occipital regions at P2 latency. However, in auditory and audiovisual conditions, background noise hampered speech processing, leading to longer response times and delayed auditory-cortex-activation at N1 latency. Nevertheless, activating ForwardFocus resulted in shorter response times, reduced listening effort and enhanced superior-frontal-cortex-activation at P2 latency, particularly in audiovisual conditions. CONCLUSIONS ForwardFocus enhances speech intelligibility in audiovisual speech conditions by potentially allowing the reallocation of attentional resources to relevant auditory speech cues. SIGNIFICANCE This study shows for CI users that background noise and ForwardFocus differentially affect spatio-temporal cortical response patterns, both in auditory and audiovisual speech conditions.
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- Natalie Layer
- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany.
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- Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Germany; Center for Brain, Behaviour and Metabolism (CBBM), University of Lübeck, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany; Jean-Uhrmacher-Institute for Clinical ENT Research, University of Cologne, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Audiology and Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implant Center, Germany; Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Wu X, Jia H, Wang E. The neurophysiological mechanism of valence-space congruency effect: evidence from spatial Stroop task and event-related EEG features. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:855-867. [PMID: 37522040 PMCID: PMC10374502 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09842-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Metaphors commonly represent mental representations of abstract concepts. One example is the valence-space metaphor (i.e., positive word-up, negative word-down), which suggests that the vertical position of positive/negative words can modulate the evaluation of word valence. Here, the spatial Stroop task and electroencephalography (EEG) techniques were used to explore the neural mechanism of the valence-space congruency effect in valence-space metaphors. This study showed that the reaction time of the congruent condition (i.e., positive words at the top and negative words at the bottom of the screen) was significantly shorter than that of the incongruent condition (i.e., positive words at the bottom and negative words at the top of the screen), while the accuracy rate of the congruent condition was significantly larger than that of the incongruent condition. The analysis of the amplitudes of event-related potential components revealed that congruency between the vertical position and valence of Chinese words could significantly modulate the amplitude of attention allocation-related P2 component and semantic violations related N400 component. Moreover, statistical tests conducted on the post-stimulus inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC) found that the ITPC value of an alpha band region of interest (8-12 Hz, 100-300 ms post-stimulus) in the time-frequency plane of the congruent condition was significantly larger than that of the incongruent condition. Above all, the current study proved the existence of the space-valence congruency effect in Chinese words and provided some interesting neurophysiological mechanisms regarding the valence-space metaphor.
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- Xiangci Wu
- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
- School of Psychology, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
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- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
- School of Psychology, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
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- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
- School of Psychology, Henan University, 475004 Kaifeng, China
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Orkan Olcay B, Özgören M, Karaçalı B. On the characterization of cognitive tasks using activity-specific short-lived synchronization between electroencephalography channels. Neural Netw 2021; 143:452-474. [PMID: 34273721 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Accurate characterization of brain activity during a cognitive task is challenging due to the dynamically changing and the complex nature of the brain. The majority of the proposed approaches assume stationarity in brain activity and disregard the systematic timing organization among brain regions during cognitive tasks. In this study, we propose a novel cognitive activity recognition method that captures the activity-specific timing parameters from training data that elicits maximal average short-lived pairwise synchronization between electroencephalography signals. We evaluated the characterization power of the activity-specific timing parameter triplets in a motor imagery activity recognition framework. The activity-specific timing parameter triplets consist of latency of the maximally synchronized signal segments from activity onset Δt, the time lag between maximally synchronized signal segments τ, and the duration of the maximally synchronized signal segments w. We used cosine-based similarity, wavelet bi-coherence, phase-locking value, phase coherence value, linearized mutual information, and cross-correntropy to calculate the channel synchronizations at the specific timing parameters. Recognition performances as well as statistical analyses on both BCI Competition-III dataset IVa and PhysioNet Motor Movement/Imagery dataset, indicate that the inter-channel short-lived synchronization calculated using activity-specific timing parameter triplets elicit significantly distinct synchronization profiles for different motor imagery tasks and can thus reliably be used for cognitive task recognition purposes.
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- B Orkan Olcay
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, 35430, Urla, Izmir, Turkey.
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, 99138, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, 35430, Urla, Izmir, Turkey.
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Momtaz S, Moncrieff D, Bidelman GM. Dichotic listening deficits in amblyaudia are characterized by aberrant neural oscillations in auditory cortex. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:2152-2162. [PMID: 34284251 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2021] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD) show deficits in processing complex sounds that are associated with difficulties in higher-order language, learning, cognitive, and communicative functions. Amblyaudia (AMB) is a subcategory of APD characterized by abnormally large ear asymmetries in dichotic listening tasks. METHODS Here, we examined frequency-specific neural oscillations and functional connectivity via high-density electroencephalography (EEG) in children with and without AMB during passive listening of nonspeech stimuli. RESULTS Time-frequency maps of these "brain rhythms" revealed stronger phase-locked beta-gamma (~35 Hz) oscillations in AMB participants within bilateral auditory cortex for sounds presented to the right ear, suggesting a hypersynchronization and imbalance of auditory neural activity. Brain-behavior correlations revealed neural asymmetries in cortical responses predicted the larger than normal right-ear advantage seen in participants with AMB. Additionally, we found weaker functional connectivity in the AMB group from right to left auditory cortex, despite their stronger neural responses overall. CONCLUSION Our results reveal abnormally large auditory sensory encoding and an imbalance in communication between cerebral hemispheres (ipsi- to -contralateral signaling) in AMB. SIGNIFICANCE These neurophysiological changes might lead to the functionally poorer behavioral capacity to integrate information between the two ears in children with AMB.
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- Sara Momtaz
- School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
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- School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA; Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA; University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Memphis, TN, USA
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van der Westhuizen N, Biagio-de Jager L, Rheeder P. P300 Event-Related Potentials in Normal-Hearing Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Am J Audiol 2020; 29:120-128. [PMID: 32163296 DOI: 10.1044/2019_aja-19-00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background P300 event-related potentials can be used to measure auditory processing speed, working memory, and attention. Purpose The purpose of the study was to compare P300 event-related potentials in normal-hearing adults with those of adults with Type II diabetes mellitus. Research Design A two-group (with diabetes and controls) comparative study (age- and sex-matched) with a nonprobability sampling method was used. Study Sample Sixty-four adult participants (32 with diabetes, 32 without diabetes) between the ages of 23 and 60 years participated. Data Collection and Analysis Pure-tone audiometry was performed to ensure participants had pure-tone averages of ≤ 25 dB HL. Folstein Mini-Mental State Examinations were conducted, which ensured absence of cognitive impairment. Blood glucose levels were measured immediately prior to P300 testing, after which amplitude and latency results were captured. Descriptive analysis was used to calculate mean, standard deviation, median, and 25th and 75th percentiles. To study differences between adults with and without diabetes as well as the effect of glucose, linear mixed-model regression analyses were performed when left and right ears were combined, and simple linear regression analyses were performed when left and right ears were analyzed separately. Results For P300 latency results, a significant statistical difference (p < .001) was observed between participants with and without diabetes (352.46 ms, SD = 36.36; 314.09 ms, SD = 32.08), respectively. A significant statistical difference (p < .001) in amplitude was observed between participants with and without diabetes, respectively (12.10 μV, SD = 3.70; 15.08 μV, SD = 2.82). Glucose was a key moderator of only amplitude after adjusting for diabetes status. Glucose had no effect on amplitude and latency for adults without Type II diabetes mellitus (DM). Conclusions Type II DM decreases amplitude and increases latency; in addition, adults with Type II DM, attention, and working memory, as denoted by P300 amplitude, may deteriorate with increased glucose levels on the day of testing.
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- Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Preisig BC, Sjerps MJ, Hervais-Adelman A, Kösem A, Hagoort P, Riecke L. Bilateral Gamma/Delta Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Affects Interhemispheric Speech Sound Integration. J Cogn Neurosci 2019; 32:1242-1250. [PMID: 31682569 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Perceiving speech requires the integration of different speech cues, that is, formants. When the speech signal is split so that different cues are presented to the right and left ear (dichotic listening), comprehension requires the integration of binaural information. Based on prior electrophysiological evidence, we hypothesized that the integration of dichotically presented speech cues is enabled by interhemispheric phase synchronization between primary and secondary auditory cortex in the gamma frequency band. We tested this hypothesis by applying transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) bilaterally above the superior temporal lobe to induce or disrupt interhemispheric gamma-phase coupling. In contrast to initial predictions, we found that gamma TACS applied in-phase above the two hemispheres (interhemispheric lag 0°) perturbs interhemispheric integration of speech cues, possibly because the applied stimulation perturbs an inherent phase lag between the left and right auditory cortex. We also observed this disruptive effect when applying antiphasic delta TACS (interhemispheric lag 180°). We conclude that interhemispheric phase coupling plays a functional role in interhemispheric speech integration. The direction of this effect may depend on the stimulation frequency.
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- Basil C Preisig
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,University of Zurich
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Lyon, France
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Eskicioglu E, Taslica S, Narin B, Guducu C, Oniz A, Ozgoren M. Brain asymmetry in directing attention during dichotic listening test: An fNIRS study. Laterality 2019; 24:377-392. [DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2018.1527847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Emre Eskicioglu
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
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Westerhausen R. A primer on dichotic listening as a paradigm for the assessment of hemispheric asymmetry. Laterality 2019; 24:740-771. [DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2019.1598426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- René Westerhausen
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Bhat M, Palaniswamy HP, Pichaimuthu AN, Thomas N. Cortical auditory evoked potentials and hemispheric specialization of speech in individuals with learning disability and healthy controls: A preliminary study. F1000Res 2018; 7:1939. [PMID: 31001413 PMCID: PMC6449798 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17029.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: Dichotic listening (DL) technique is a behavioral non-invasive tool which is used in studying hemispheric lateralization. Previous studies using behavioral DL have hypothesized that individuals with learning disabilities (LD) exhibit a lack of cortical specialization for processing speech stimulus. However, there is no event related potential (ERP) evidence, hence the main objective of the study is to explore hemispheric asymmetry using cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEPs) in normal hearing adults and also to compare the same in children with LD and healthy controls. Methods: CAEPs were recorded in 16 normal hearing young adults, eight right-handed children with LD and their age matched controls. Two stop constants (/Pa/ – voiceless, bilabial, stop: /Ta/ - voiceless, alveolar, stop) were chosen for this experiment and presented in each ear and dichotically in two different orders (/pa-ta/, /ta-pa/). ERPs were processed using a standard pipeline, and electrodes readings over the left and right hemispheres were averaged to create left and right regions of interest (ROI). The CAEPs were analyzed for mean amplitude and peak latency of P1-N1-P2 components. Results: The current study results suggest no statistically significant difference between the two stimulus in monaural condition and absence of order effect in dichotic condition. In healthy controls the CAEP latencies were shorter over the left hemisphere in both monaural and dichotic conditions in adults and control children. However, it was very evident that such a difference was lacking in children with LD. Conclusions: Hemispheric asymmetry can be detected using CAEPs for speech stimulus. The measures are consistent and void of stimulus or order effect. Taken together, the findings of current study, both monaural and dichotic condition illustrates the hemispheric differences in processing speech stimuli in normal hearers. Absence of latency differences between hemispheres in children with LD indicate a lack of hemispheric asymmetry.
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- Mayur Bhat
- Department of Speech and Hearing, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
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- Department of Speech and Hearing, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
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- Department of Speech and Hearing, Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka, 575003, India
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
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Westerhausen R, Kompus K. How to get a left-ear advantage: A technical review of assessing brain asymmetry with dichotic listening. Scand J Psychol 2018; 59:66-73. [DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- René Westerhausen
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC); Department of Psychology; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology; University of Bergen; Bergen Norway
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- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology; University of Bergen; Bergen Norway
- School of Natural Sciences and Health; University of Tallinn; Estonia
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Friedrich P, Ocklenburg S, Heins N, Schlüter C, Fraenz C, Beste C, Güntürkün O, Genç E. Callosal microstructure affects the timing of electrophysiological left-right differences. Neuroimage 2017; 163:310-318. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Bediz CS, Oniz A, Guducu C, Ural Demirci E, Ogut H, Gunay E, Cetinkaya C, Ozgoren M. Acute Supramaximal Exercise Increases the Brain Oxygenation in Relation to Cognitive Workload. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:174. [PMID: 27148022 PMCID: PMC4837702 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Single bout of exercise can improve the performance on cognitive tasks. However, cognitive responses may be controversial due to different type, intensity, and duration of exercise. In addition, the mechanism of the effect of acute exercise on brain is still unclear. This study was aimed to investigate the effects of supramaximal exercise on cognitive tasks by means of brain oxygenation monitoring. The brain oxygenation of Prefrontal cortex (PFC) was measured on 35 healthy male volunteers via functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system. Subjects performed 2-Back test before and after the supramaximal exercise wingate anerobic test (WAnT) lasting 30-s on cycle ergometer. The PFC oxygenation change evaluation revealed that PFC oxygenation rise during post-exercise 2-Back task was considerably higher than those in pre-exercise 2-Back task. In order to describe the relationship between oxygenation change and exercise performance, subjects were divided into two groups as high performers (HP) and low performers (LP) according to their peak power values (PP) obtained from the supramaximal test. The oxy-hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) values were compared between pre- and post-exercise conditions within subjects and also between subjects according to peak power. When performers were compared, in the HP group, the oxy-Hb values in post-exercise 2-Back test were significantly higher than those in pre-exercise 2-Back test. HP had significantly higher post-exercise oxy-Hb change (Δ) than those of LP. In addition, PP of the total group were significantly correlated with Δoxy-Hb.The key findings of the present study revealed that acute supramaximal exercise has an impact on the brain oxygenation during a cognitive task. Also, the higher the anerobic PP describes the larger the oxy-Hb response in post-exercise cognitive task. The current study also demonstrated a significant correlation between peak power (exercise load) and post-exercise hemodynamic responses (oxy-, deoxy- and total-Hb). The magnitude of this impact might be related with the physical performance capacities of the individuals. This can become a valuable parameter for future studies on human factor.
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- Cem Seref Bediz
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul UniversityIzmir, Turkey; Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul UniversityIzmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul UniversityIzmir, Turkey; School of Sport Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylul UniversityIzmir, Turkey
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- School of Sport Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir, Turkey
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Tallus J, Soveri A, Hämäläinen H, Tuomainen J, Laine M. Effects of Auditory Attention Training with the Dichotic Listening Task: Behavioural and Neurophysiological Evidence. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0139318. [PMID: 26439112 PMCID: PMC4595478 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Facilitation of general cognitive capacities such as executive functions through training has stirred considerable research interest during the last decade. Recently we demonstrated that training of auditory attention with forced attention dichotic listening not only facilitated that performance but also generalized to an untrained attentional task. In the present study, 13 participants underwent a 4-week dichotic listening training programme with instructions to report syllables presented to the left ear (FL training group). Another group (n = 13) was trained using the non-forced instruction, asked to report whichever syllable they heard the best (NF training group). The study aimed to replicate our previous behavioural results, and to explore the neurophysiological correlates of training through event-related brain potentials (ERPs). We partially replicated our previous behavioural training effects, as the FL training group tended to show more allocation of auditory spatial attention to the left ear in a standard dichotic listening task. ERP measures showed diminished N1 and enhanced P2 responses to dichotic stimuli after training in both groups, interpreted as improvement in early perceptual processing of the stimuli. Additionally, enhanced anterior N2 amplitudes were found after training, with relatively larger changes in the FL training group in the forced-left condition, suggesting improved top-down control on the trained task. These results show that top-down cognitive training can modulate the left-right allocation of auditory spatial attention, accompanied by a change in an evoked brain potential related to cognitive control.
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- Jussi Tallus
- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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Leshem R, Arzouan Y, Armony-Sivan R. The effects of sad prosody on hemispheric specialization for words processing. Brain Cogn 2015; 96:28-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2014] [Revised: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Steinmann S, Leicht G, Ertl M, Andreou C, Polomac N, Westerhausen R, Friederici AD, Mulert C. Conscious auditory perception related to long-range synchrony of gamma oscillations. Neuroimage 2014; 100:435-43. [PMID: 24945670 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Revised: 05/08/2014] [Accepted: 06/05/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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While the role of synchronized oscillatory activity in the gamma-band frequency range for conscious perception is well established in the visual domain, there is limited evidence concerning neurophysiological mechanisms in conscious auditory perception. In the current study, we addressed this issue with 64-channel EEG and a dichotic listening (DL) task in twenty-five healthy participants. The typical finding of DL is a more frequent conscious perception of the speech syllable presented to the right ear (RE), which is attributed to the supremacy of the contralateral pathways running from the RE to the speech-dominant left hemisphere. In contrast, the left ear (LE) input initially accesses the right hemisphere and needs additional transfer via interhemispheric pathways before it is processed in the left hemisphere. Using lagged phase synchronization (LPS) analysis and eLORETA source estimation we examined the functional connectivity between right and left primary and secondary auditory cortices in the main frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma) during RE/LE-reports. Interhemispheric LPS between right and left primary and secondary auditory cortices was specifically increased in the gamma-band range, when participants consciously perceived the syllable presented to the LE. Our results suggest that synchronous gamma oscillations are involved in interhemispheric transfer of auditory information.
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- Saskia Steinmann
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuropsychology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Branch, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
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Westerhausen R, Passow S, Kompus K. Reactive cognitive-control processes in free-report consonant-vowel dichotic listening. Brain Cogn 2013; 83:288-96. [PMID: 24121447 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Revised: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The relevance of cognitive-control processes has been frequently discussed and studied in the context of dichotic listening. Experimental and clinical studies indicate that directing attention to either of the two simultaneously presented phonological stimuli, but especially to the left-ear stimulus increases the requirements for cognitive-control processes. Here, we extend this view by reporting the results of a behavioural and a functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment designed to analyse the involvement of cognitive-control processes also in a free-report dichotic-listening paradigm. It was hypothesised that dichotically presented pairs of stop-consonant-vowel syllables would provide different demands for cognitive-control processes as a function of the spectro-temporal overlap of the two stimuli. Accordingly, in Experiment 1 it was shown that dichotic syllables of high (e.g., /ba/ and /ga/) as opposed to low spectro-temporal overlap (e.g., /ba/ and /ka/) produce significantly faster and more correct answers, and are more often perceived as one syllable. In Experiment 2 it was further shown that pairs of low as compared to high spectro-temporal overlap trigger a more pronounced activation predominately in left-hemispheric, speech-associated brain regions, namely left posterior inferior sulcus/gyrus, bilaterally in pre-supplementary motor and mid-cingulate cortex as well as in the inferior parietal lobe. Taken together, behavioural and functional data indicate a stronger involvement of reactive cognitive control in the processing of low-overlap as opposed to high-overlap stimulus pairs. This supports the notion that higher-order, speech-related cognitive-control processes also are involved in a free-report dichotic-listening paradigm.
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- René Westerhausen
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway; Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
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Li SC, Passow S, Nietfeld W, Schröder J, Bertram L, Heekeren HR, Lindenberger U. Dopamine modulates attentional control of auditory perception: DARPP-32 (PPP1R1B) genotype effects on behavior and cortical evoked potentials. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:1649-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2012] [Revised: 03/16/2013] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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LOPEZ-GORDO MA, PELAYO F. A BINARY PHASE-SHIFT KEYING RECEIVER FOR THE DETECTION OF ATTENTION TO HUMAN SPEECH. Int J Neural Syst 2013; 23:1350016. [DOI: 10.1142/s0129065713500160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Synthetic sounds, tone-beeps, vowels or syllables are typically used in the assessment of attention to auditory stimuli because they evoke a set of well-known event-related potentials, whose characteristics can be statistically contrasted. Such approach rules out the use of stimuli with non-predictable response, such as human speech. In this study we present a procedure based on the robust binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) receiver that permits the real-time detection of selective attention to human speeches in dichotic listening tasks. The goal was achieved by tagging the speeches with two barely-audible tags whose joined EEG response constitutes a reliable BPSK constellation, which can be detected by means of a BPSK receiver. The results confirmed the expected generation of the BPSK constellation by the human auditory system. Also, the bit-error rate and the information transmission rate achieved in the detection of attention fairly followed the expected curves and equations of the standard BPSK receiver. Actually, it was possible to detect attention as well as the estimation a priori of its accuracy based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the BPSK signals. This procedure, which permits the detection of the attention to human speeches, can be of interest for new potential applications, such as brain–computer interfaces, clinical assessment of the attention in real time or for entertainment.
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- M. A. LOPEZ-GORDO
- Department of Automatic Engineering, Electronic, Architecture of Computers and Networks, University of Cadiz, c/Chile 1, 11002, Cadiz, Spain
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- Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, c/Periodista Daniel Saucedo, 18071, Granada, Spain
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Passow S, Westerhausen R, Hugdahl K, Wartenburger I, Heekeren HR, Lindenberger U, Li SC. Electrophysiological correlates of adult age differences in attentional control of auditory processing. Cereb Cortex 2012; 24:249-60. [PMID: 23042734 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In addition to sensory decline, age-related losses in auditory perception also reflect impairments in attentional modulation of perceptual saliency. Using an attention and intensity-modulated dichotic listening paradigm, we investigated electrophysiological correlates of processing conflicts between attentional focus and perceptual saliency in 25 younger and 26 older adults. Participants were instructed to attend to the right or left ear, and perceptual saliency was manipulated by varying the intensities of both ears. Attentional control demand was higher in conditions when attentional focus and perceptual saliency favored opposing ears than in conditions without such conflicts. Relative to younger adults, older adults modulated their attention less flexibly and were more influenced by perceptual saliency. Our results show, for the first time, that in younger adults a late negativity in the event-related potential (ERP) at fronto-central and parietal electrodes was sensitive to perceptual-attentional conflicts during auditory processing (N450 modulation effect). Crucially, the magnitude of the N450 modulation effect correlated positively with task performance. In line with lower attentional flexibility, the ERP waveforms of older adults showed absence of the late negativity and the modulation effect. This suggests that aging compromises the activation of the fronto-parietal attentional network when processing the competing and conflicting auditory information.
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- Susanne Passow
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin D-14195, Germany
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Ozgoren M, Bayazit O, Oniz A, Hugdahl K. Amplitude and phase-shift effects on dichotic listening performance. Int J Audiol 2012; 51:591-6. [DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2012.680076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Ocklenburg S, Arning L, Hahn C, Gerding WM, Epplen JT, Güntürkün O, Beste C. Variation in the NMDA receptor 2B subunit gene GRIN2B is associated with differential language lateralization. Behav Brain Res 2011; 225:284-9. [PMID: 21827795 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Revised: 07/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Variations in the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor 2B subunit gene (GRIN2B) have been associated with schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder associated with reduced left-hemispheric language dominance. Here, we investigated, whether different polymorphisms in GRIN2B influence language lateralization and handedness in healthy individuals. In a cohort of 424 genetically unrelated participants we found significant association between the synonymous GRIN2B variation rs1806201 and language lateralization assessed using the dichotic listening task. Individuals carrying the heterozygous CT genotype exhibited more pronounced left-hemispheric language dominance as compared to both homozygous CC and TT individuals. Such an association was not identified for handedness. These findings suggest that variation in NMDA-receptors contributes to the interindividual variability of language lateralization.
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- Sebastian Ocklenburg
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
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Hahn C, Neuhaus AH, Pogun S, Dettling M, Kotz SA, Hahn E, Brüne M, Güntürkün O. Smoking reduces language lateralization: A dichotic listening study with control participants and schizophrenia patients. Brain Cogn 2011; 76:300-9. [PMID: 21524559 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2011] [Revised: 03/21/2011] [Accepted: 03/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hahn C, Pogun S, Güntürkün O. Smoking modulates language lateralization in a sex-specific way. Neuropsychologia 2010; 48:3993-4002. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2010] [Revised: 08/14/2010] [Accepted: 10/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ozgoren M, Bayazit O, Kocaaslan S, Gokmen N, Oniz A. Brain function assessment in different conscious states. NONLINEAR BIOMEDICAL PHYSICS 2010; 4 Suppl 1:S6. [PMID: 20522267 PMCID: PMC2880803 DOI: 10.1186/1753-4631-4-s1-s6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND The study of brain functioning is a major challenge in neuroscience fields as human brain has a dynamic and ever changing information processing. Case is worsened with conditions where brain undergoes major changes in so-called different conscious states. Even though the exact definition of consciousness is a hard one, there are certain conditions where the descriptions have reached a consensus. The sleep and the anesthesia are different conditions which are separable from each other and also from wakefulness. The aim of our group has been to tackle the issue of brain functioning with setting up similar research conditions for these three conscious states. METHODS In order to achieve this goal we have designed an auditory stimulation battery with changing conditions to be recorded during a 40 channel EEG polygraph (Nuamps) session. The stimuli (modified mismatch, auditory evoked etc.) have been administered both in the operation room and the sleep lab via Embedded Interactive Stimulus Unit which was developed in our lab. The overall study has provided some results for three domains of consciousness. In order to be able to monitor the changes we have incorporated Bispectral Index Monitoring to both sleep and anesthesia conditions. RESULTS The first stage results have provided a basic understanding in these altered states such that auditory stimuli have been successfully processed in both light and deep sleep stages. The anesthesia provides a sudden change in brain responsiveness; therefore a dosage dependent anesthetic administration has proved to be useful. The auditory processing was exemplified targeting N1 wave, with a thorough analysis from spectrogram to sLORETA. The frequency components were observed to be shifting throughout the stages. The propofol administration and the deeper sleep stages both resulted in the decreasing of N1 component. The sLORETA revealed similar activity at BA7 in sleep (BIS 70) and target propofol concentration of 1.2 microg/mL. CONCLUSIONS The current study utilized similar stimulation and recording system and incorporated BIS dependent values to validate a common approach to sleep and anesthesia. Accordingly the brain has a complex behavior pattern, dynamically changing its responsiveness in accordance with stimulations and states.
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- Murat Ozgoren
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, 35340, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, 35340, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, 35340, Turkey
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- Department. of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir,35340, Turkey
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, 35340, Turkey
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Ozgoren M, Erdogan U, Bayazit O, Taslica S, Oniz A. Brain asymmetry measurement using EMISU (embedded interactive stimulation unit) in applied brain biophysics. Comput Biol Med 2009; 39:879-88. [PMID: 19665111 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2008] [Revised: 07/01/2009] [Accepted: 07/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The basic motive to study the brain asymmetry using a dichotic paradigm, forced the authors to develop an interactive stimulus system, where not only the stimuli but also the responses could be interactively registered real time on to the EEG data. Therefore, an embedded interactive stimulation unit (EMISU) was constructed and applied in such a task, incorporating behavioral and evoked data from 20 volunteers (10 male, 10 female, 21.15 years). The results provided a significant factor of laterality in favor of right ear responses (p<0.001) and also proved the applicability of the proposed design.
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- Murat Ozgoren
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
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