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Fan T, Zhang L, Liu J, Niu Y, Hong T, Zhang W, Shu H, Zhao J. Phonemic mismatch negativity mediates the association between phoneme awareness and character reading ability in young Chinese children. Neuropsychologia 2023; 188:108624. [PMID: 37328027 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108624] [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: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Poor phonological awareness is associated with greater risk for reading disability. The underlying neural mechanism of such association may lie in the brain processing of phonological information. Lower amplitude of auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) has been associated with poor phonological awareness and with the presence of reading disability. The current study recorded auditory MMN to phoneme and lexical tone contrast with odd-ball paradigm and examined whether auditory MMN mediated the associations between phonological awareness and character reading ability through a three-year longitudinal study in 78 native Mandarin-speaking kindergarten children. Hierarchical linear regression and mediation analyses showed that the effect of phoneme awareness on the character reading ability was mediated by the phonemic MMN in young Chinese children. Findings underscore the key role of phonemic MMN as the underlying neurodevelopmental mechanism linking phoneme awareness and reading ability.
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- Tengwen Fan
- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, China
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- School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- Affiliated Kindergarten of Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, 710062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710062, China.
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Kujala T, Partanen E, Virtala P, Winkler I. Prerequisites of language acquisition in the newborn brain. Trends Neurosci 2023; 46:726-737. [PMID: 37344237 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Learning to decode and produce speech is one of the most demanding tasks faced by infants. Nevertheless, infants typically utter their first words within a year, and phrases soon follow. Here we review cognitive abilities of newborn infants that promote language acquisition, focusing primarily on studies tapping neural activity. The results of these studies indicate that infants possess core adult auditory abilities already at birth, including statistical learning and rule extraction from variable speech input. Thus, the neonatal brain is ready to categorize sounds, detect word boundaries, learn words, and separate speech streams: in short, to acquire language quickly and efficiently from everyday linguistic input.
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- Teija Kujala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Virtala P, Kujala T, Partanen E, Hämäläinen JA, Winkler I. Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns - Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills. Brain Cogn 2023; 168:105974. [PMID: 37037170 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.105974] [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: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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A crucial skill in infant language acquisition is learning of the native language phonemes. This requires the ability to group complex sounds into distinct auditory categories based on their shared features. Problems in phonetic learning have been suggested to underlie language learning difficulties in dyslexia, a developmental reading-skill deficit. We investigated auditory abilities important for language acquisition in newborns with or without a familial risk for dyslexia with electrophysiological mismatch responses (MMRs). We presented vowel changes in a sequence of acoustically varying vowels, requiring grouping of the stimuli to two phoneme categories. The vowel changes elicited an MMR which was significantly diminished in infants whose parents had the most severe dyslexia in our sample. Phoneme-MMR amplitude and its hemispheric lateralization were associated with language test outcomes assessed at 28 months, an age at which it becomes possible to behaviourally test children and several standardized tests are available. In addition, statistically significant MMRs to violations of a complex sound-order rule were only found in infants without dyslexia risk, but these results are very preliminary due to small sample size. The results demonstrate the relevance of the newborn infants' readiness for phonetic learning for their emerging language skills. Phoneme extraction difficulties in infants at familial risk may contribute to the phonological deficits observed in dyslexia.
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- P Virtala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Seeberg AB, Haumann NT, Højlund A, Andersen ASF, Faulkner KF, Brattico E, Vuust P, Petersen B. Adapting to the Sound of Music - Development of Music Discrimination Skills in Recently Implanted CI Users. Trends Hear 2023; 27:23312165221148035. [PMID: 36597692 PMCID: PMC9830578 DOI: 10.1177/23312165221148035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cochlear implants (CIs) are optimized for speech perception but poor in conveying musical sound features such as pitch, melody, and timbre. Here, we investigated the early development of discrimination of musical sound features after cochlear implantation. Nine recently implanted CI users (CIre) were tested shortly after switch-on (T1) and approximately 3 months later (T2), using a musical multifeature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm, presenting four deviant features (intensity, pitch, timbre, and rhythm), and a three-alternative forced-choice behavioral test. For reference, groups of experienced CI users (CIex; n = 13) and normally hearing (NH) controls (n = 14) underwent the same tests once. We found significant improvement in CIre's neural discrimination of pitch and timbre as marked by increased MMN amplitudes. This was not reflected in the behavioral results. Behaviorally, CIre scored well above chance level at both time points for all features except intensity, but significantly below NH controls for all features except rhythm. Both CI groups scored significantly below NH in behavioral pitch discrimination. No significant difference was found in MMN amplitude between CIex and NH. The results indicate that development of musical discrimination can be detected neurophysiologically early after switch-on. However, to fully take advantage of the sparse information from the implant, a prolonged adaptation period may be required. Behavioral discrimination accuracy was notably high already shortly after implant switch-on, although well below that of NH listeners. This study provides new insight into the early development of music-discrimination abilities in CI users and may have clinical and therapeutic relevance.
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- Alberte B. Seeberg
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark,Alberte B. Seeberg, Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark
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The Neural Responses of Visual Complexity in the Oddball Paradigm: An ERP Study. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12040447. [PMID: 35447979 PMCID: PMC9032384 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12040447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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This research measured human neural responses to images of different visual complexity levels using the oddball paradigm to explore the neurocognitive responses of complexity perception in visual processing. In the task, 24 participants (12 females) were required to react to images with high complexity for all stimuli. We hypothesized that high-complexity stimuli would induce early visual and attentional processing effects and may elicit the visual mismatch negativity responses and the emergence of error-related negativity. Our results showed that the amplitude of P1 and N1 were unaffected by complexity in the early visual processing. Under the target stimuli, both N2 and P3b components were reported, suggesting that the N2 component was sensitive to the complexity deviation, and the attentional processing related to complexity may be derived from the occipital zone according to the feature of the P3b component. In addition, compared with the low-complexity stimulus, the high-complexity stimulus aroused a larger amplitude of the visual mismatch negativity. The detected error negativity (Ne) component reflected the error detection of the participants’ mismatch between visual complexity and psychological expectations.
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De Groote E, Bockstael A, Botteldooren D, Santens P, De Letter M. Evaluation of multi-feature auditory deviance detection in Parkinson's disease: a mismatch negativity study. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2021; 128:645-657. [PMID: 33895941 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02341-z] [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: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Behavioral studies on auditory deviance detection in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have reported contradictory results. The primary aim of this study was to investigate auditory deviance detection of multiple auditory features in patients with PD by means of objective and reliable electroencephalographic (EEG) measurements. Twelve patients with early-stage PD and twelve age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. Patients with PD participated without their regular dopaminergic medication. All subjects underwent an audiometric screening and performed a passive multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated no significant differences between patients with PD and HCs regarding MMN mean amplitude and latency for frequency, duration and gap deviants. Nevertheless, a trend towards increased MMN mean amplitude and latency was found in response to intensity deviants in patients with PD compared to HCs. Increased intensity MMN amplitude may indicate that more neural resources are allocated to the processing of intensity deviances in patients with PD compared to HCs. The interpretation of this intensity-specific MMN alteration is further discussed in the context of a compensatory mechanism for auditory intensity processing and involuntary attention switching in PD.
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- Evelien De Groote
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Information Technology, WAVES Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology, WAVES Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Gorin A, Krugliakova E, Nikulin V, Kuznetsova A, Moiseeva V, Klucharev V, Shestakova A. Cortical plasticity elicited by acoustically cued monetary losses: an ERP study. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21161. [PMID: 33273646 PMCID: PMC7713235 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78211-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Both human and animal studies have demonstrated remarkable findings of experience-induced plasticity in the cortex. Here, we investigated whether the widely used monetary incentive delay (MID) task changes the neural processing of incentive cues that code expected monetary outcomes. We used a novel auditory version of the MID task, where participants responded to acoustic cues that coded expected monetary losses. To investigate task-induced brain plasticity, we presented incentive cues as deviants during passive oddball tasks before and after two sessions of the MID task. During the oddball task, we recorded the mismatch-related negativity (MMN) as an index of cortical plasticity. We found that two sessions of the MID task evoked a significant enhancement of MMN for incentive cues that predicted large monetary losses, specifically when monetary cue discrimination was essential for maximising monetary outcomes. The task-induced plasticity correlated with the learning-related neural activity recorded during the MID task. Thus, our results confirm that the processing of (loss)incentive auditory cues is dynamically modulated by previously learned monetary outcomes.
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- Aleksei Gorin
- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia.
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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- International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia
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Franz M, Schmidt B, Hecht H, Naumann E, Miltner WHR. Suggested deafness during hypnosis and simulation of hypnosis compared to a distraction and control condition: A study on subjective experience and cortical brain responses. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0240832. [PMID: 33119665 PMCID: PMC7595429 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Hypnosis is a powerful tool to affect the processing and perception of stimuli. Here, we investigated the effects of hypnosis on the processing of auditory stimuli, the time course of event-related-potentials (ERP; N1 and P3b amplitudes) and the activity of cortical sources of the P3b component. Forty-eight participants completed an auditory oddball paradigm composed of standard, distractor, and target stimuli during a hypnosis (HYP), a simulation of hypnosis (SIM), a distraction (DIS), and a control (CON) condition. During HYP, participants were suggested that an earplug would obstruct the perception of tones and during SIM they should pretend being hypnotized and obstructed to hear the tones. During DIS, participants' attention was withdrawn from the tones by focusing participants' attention onto a film. In each condition, subjects were asked to press a key whenever a target stimulus was presented. Behavioral data show that target hit rates and response time became significantly reduced during HYP and SIM and loudness ratings of tones were only reduced during HYP. Distraction from stimuli by the film was less effective in reducing target hit rate and tone loudness. Although, the N1 amplitude was not affected by the experimental conditions, the P3b amplitude was significantly reduced in HYP and SIM compared to CON and DIS. In addition, source localization results indicate that only a small number of neural sources organize the differences of tone processing between the control condition and the distraction, hypnosis, and simulation of hypnosis conditions. These sources belong to brain areas that control the focus of attention, the discrimination of auditory stimuli, and the organization of behavioral responses to targets. Our data confirm that deafness suggestions significantly change auditory processing and perception but complete deafness is hard to achieve during HYP. Therefore, the term 'deafness' may be misleading and should better be replaced by 'hypoacusis'.
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- Marcel Franz
- Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
- Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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Andermann M, Günther M, Patterson RD, Rupp A. Early cortical processing of pitch height and the role of adaptation and musicality. Neuroimage 2020; 225:117501. [PMID: 33169697 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Pitch is an important perceptual feature; however, it is poorly understood how its cortical correlates are shaped by absolute vs relative fundamental frequency (f0), and by neural adaptation. In this study, we assessed transient and sustained auditory evoked fields (AEFs) at the onset, progression, and offset of short pitch height sequences, taking into account the listener's musicality. We show that neuromagnetic activity reflects absolute f0 at pitch onset and offset, and relative f0 at transitions within pitch sequences; further, sequences with fixed f0 lead to larger response suppression than sequences with variable f0 contour, and to enhanced offset activity. Musical listeners exhibit stronger f0-related AEFs and larger differences between their responses to fixed vs variable sequences, both within sequences and at pitch offset. The results resemble prominent psychoacoustic phenomena in the perception of pitch contours; moreover, they suggest a strong influence of adaptive mechanisms on cortical pitch processing which, in turn, might be modulated by a listener's musical expertise.
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- Martin Andermann
- Section of Biomagnetism, Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Section of Biomagnetism, Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, United Kingdom
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- Section of Biomagnetism, Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Thiede A, Parkkonen L, Virtala P, Laasonen M, Mäkelä J, Kujala T. Neuromagnetic speech discrimination responses are associated with reading-related skills in dyslexic and typical readers. Heliyon 2020; 6:e04619. [PMID: 32904386 PMCID: PMC7452546 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Poor neural speech discrimination has been connected to dyslexia, and may represent phonological processing deficits that are hypothesized to be the main cause for reading impairments. Thus far, neural speech discrimination impairments have rarely been investigated in adult dyslexics, and even less by examining sources of neuromagnetic responses. We compared neuromagnetic speech discrimination in dyslexic and typical readers with mismatch fields (MMF) and determined the associations between MMFs and reading-related skills. We expected weak and atypically lateralized MMFs in dyslexic readers, and positive associations between reading-related skills and MMF strength. MMFs were recorded to a repeating pseudoword /ta-ta/ with occasional changes in vowel identity, duration, or syllable frequency from 43 adults, 21 with confirmed dyslexia. Phonetic (vowel and duration) changes elicited left-lateralized MMFs in the auditory cortices. Contrary to our hypothesis, MMF source strengths or lateralization did not differ between groups. However, better verbal working memory was associated with stronger left-hemispheric MMFs to duration changes across groups, and better reading was associated with stronger right-hemispheric late MMFs across speech-sound changes in dyslexic readers. This suggests a link between neural speech processing and reading-related skills, in line with previous work. Furthermore, our findings suggest a right-hemispheric compensatory mechanism for language processing in dyslexia. The results obtained promote the use of MMFs in investigating reading-related brain processes.
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- A. Thiede
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, School of Science, Aalto University, Finland
- Aalto Neuroimaging, Aalto University, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Phoniatrics, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
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- BioMag Laboratory, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Plumridge JMA, Barham MP, Foley DL, Ware AT, Clark GM, Albein-Urios N, Hayden MJ, Lum JAG. The Effect of Visual Articulatory Information on the Neural Correlates of Non-native Speech Sound Discrimination. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:25. [PMID: 32116609 PMCID: PMC7019039 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Behavioral studies have shown that the ability to discriminate between non-native speech sounds improves after seeing how the sounds are articulated. This study examined the influence of visual articulatory information on the neural correlates of non-native speech sound discrimination. English speakers’ discrimination of the Hindi dental and retroflex sounds was measured using the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential, before and after they completed one of three 8-min training conditions. In an audio-visual speech training condition (n = 14), each sound was presented with its corresponding visual articulation. In one control condition (n = 14), both sounds were presented with the same visual articulation, resulting in one congruent and one incongruent audio-visual pairing. In another control condition (n = 14), both sounds were presented with the same image of a still face. The control conditions aimed to rule out the possibility that the MMN is influenced by non-specific audio-visual pairings, or by general exposure to the dental and retroflex sounds over the course of the study. The results showed that audio-visual speech training reduced the latency of the MMN but did not affect MMN amplitude. No change in MMN amplitude or latency was observed for the two control conditions. The pattern of results suggests that a relatively short audio-visual speech training session (i.e., 8 min) may increase the speed with which the brain processes non-native speech sound contrasts. The absence of a training effect on MMN amplitude suggests a single session of audio-visual speech training does not lead to the formation of more discrete memory traces for non-native speech sounds. Longer and/or multiple sessions might be needed to influence the MMN amplitude.
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- James M A Plumridge
- 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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- 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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Schröger E, Roeber U. Encoding of deterministic and stochastic auditory rules in the human brain: The mismatch negativity mechanism does not reflect basic probability. Hear Res 2020; 399:107907. [PMID: 32143958 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 01/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Regularities in a sequence of sounds can be automatically encoded in a predictive model by the auditory system. When a sound deviates from the one predicted by the model, a mismatch negativity (MMN) is elicited, which is taken to reflect a prediction error at a particular level of the model hierarchy. Although there are many studies on deterministic regularities, only a few have investigated the brain's ability to encode non-deterministic regularities. We studied a simple stochastic regularity: two tone pitches (standards, each occurring on 45% of trials); this regularity was occasionally violated by another tone pitch (deviant, occurring on 10% of trials). We found MMN when the deviant's pitch was outside those of the standards, but not when it was between them. Importantly, when we alternated the occurrence of the same two standards, making them deterministic, the deviant elicited MMN, even when its pitch was between those of the standards. Thus, although the MMN system is extremely powerful in establishing even quite complex deterministic regularities, it fails with a simple stochastic regularity. We argue that the MMN system does not know basic probability.
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- Erich Schröger
- Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Neumarkt 9-19, D-04109, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Neumarkt 9-19, D-04109, Leipzig, Germany.
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Listen-and-repeat training improves perception of second language vowel duration: Evidence from mismatch negativity (MMN) and N1 responses and behavioral discrimination. Int J Psychophysiol 2020; 147:72-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Krugliakova E, Gorin A, Fedele T, Shtyrov Y, Moiseeva V, Klucharev V, Shestakova A. The Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) Task Induces Changes in Sensory Processing: ERP Evidence. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:382. [PMID: 31736730 PMCID: PMC6839045 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Numerous cognitive studies have demonstrated experience-induced plasticity in the primary sensory cortex, indicating that repeated decisions could modulate sensory processing. In this context, we investigated whether an auditory version of the monetary incentive delay (MID) task could change the neural processing of the incentive cues that code expected monetary outcomes. To study sensory plasticity, we presented the incentive cues as deviants during oddball sessions recorded before and after training in the two MID task sessions. We found that after 2 days of training in the MID task, incentive cues evoked a larger P3a (compared with the baseline condition), indicating there was an enhancement of the involuntary attention to the stimuli that predict rewards. At the individual level, the training-induced change of mismatch-related negativity was correlated with the amplitude of the feedback-related negativity (FRN) recorded during the first MID task session. Our results show that the MID task evokes plasticity changes in the auditory system associated with better passive discrimination of incentive cues and with enhanced involuntary attention switching towards these cues. Thus, the sensory processing of incentive cues is dynamically modulated by previous outcomes.
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- Elena Krugliakova
- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Neurosurgery Department, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Laboratory of Behavioural Neurodynamics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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Munivenkatappa A, Agrawal A. Role of Thalamus in Recovery of Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neurosci Rural Pract 2019; 7:S76-S79. [PMID: 28163509 PMCID: PMC5244067 DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.196468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Degree of recovery after traumatic brain injury is highly variable that lasts for many weeks to months. The evidence of brain structures involved in recovery mechanisms is limited. This review highlights evidence of the brain structure particularly thalamus in neuroplasticity mechanism. Thalamus with its complex global networking has potential role in refining the cortical and other brain structures. Thalamic nuclei activation both naturally or by neurorehabilitation in injured brain can enhance and facilitate the improvement of posttraumatic symptoms. This review provides evidence from literature that thalamus plays a key role in recovery mechanism after injury. The study also emphasize that thalamus should be specifically targeted in neurorehabilitation following brain injury.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Narayna Medical College Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Cheng B, Zhang X, Fan S, Zhang Y. The Role of Temporal Acoustic Exaggeration in High Variability Phonetic Training: A Behavioral and ERP Study. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1178. [PMID: 31178795 PMCID: PMC6543854 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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High variability phonetic training (HVPT) has been found to be effective in helping adult learners acquire non-native phonetic contrasts. The present study investigated the role of temporal acoustic exaggeration by comparing the canonical HVPT paradigm without involving acoustic exaggeration with a modified adaptive HVPT paradigm that integrated key temporal exaggerations in infant-directed speech (IDS). Sixty native Chinese adults participated in the training of the English /i/ and /i/ vowel contrast and were randomly assigned to three subject groups. Twenty were trained with the typical HVPT paradigm (the HVPT group), twenty were trained under the modified adaptive approach with acoustic exaggeration (the HVPT-E group), and twenty were in the control group. Behavioral tasks for the pre- and post- tests used natural word identification, synthetic stimuli identification, and synthetic stimuli discrimination. Mismatch negativity (MMN) responses from the HVPT-E group were also obtained to assess the training effects in within- and across- category discrimination without requiring focused attention. Like previous studies, significant generalization effects to new talkers were found in both the HVPT group and the HVPT-E group. The HVPT-E group, by contrast, showed greater improvement as reflected in larger progress in natural word identification performance. Furthermore, the HVPT-E group exhibited more native-like categorical perception based on spectral cues after training, together with corresponding training-induced changes in the MMN responses to within- and across- category differences. These data provide the initial evidence supporting the important role of temporal acoustic exaggeration with adaptive training in facilitating phonetic learning and promoting brain plasticity at the perceptual and pre-attentive neural levels.
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- Bing Cheng
- English Department & Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- English Department & Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- English Department & Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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An extensive pattern of atypical neural speech-sound discrimination in newborns at risk of dyslexia. Clin Neurophysiol 2019; 130:634-646. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ombao H, Fiecas M, Ting CM, Low YF. Statistical models for brain signals with properties that evolve across trials. Neuroimage 2018; 180:609-618. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Revised: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Lindström R, Lepistö-Paisley T, Makkonen T, Reinvall O, Nieminen-von Wendt T, Alén R, Kujala T. Atypical perceptual and neural processing of emotional prosodic changes in children with autism spectrum disorders. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:2411-2420. [PMID: 30278390 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Revised: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The present study explored the processing of emotional speech prosody in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) but without marked language impairments (children with ASD [no LI]). METHODS The mismatch negativity (MMN)/the late discriminative negativity (LDN), reflecting pre-attentive auditory discrimination processes, and the P3a, indexing involuntary orienting to attention-catching changes, were recorded to natural word stimuli uttered with different emotional connotations (neutral, sad, scornful and commanding). Perceptual prosody discrimination was addressed with a behavioral sound-discrimination test. RESULTS Overall, children with ASD (no LI) were slower in behaviorally discriminating prosodic features of speech stimuli than typically developed control children. Further, smaller standard-stimulus event related potentials (ERPs) and MMN/LDNs were found in children with ASD (no LI) than in controls. In addition, the amplitude of the P3a was diminished and differentially distributed on the scalp in children with ASD (no LI) than in control children. CONCLUSIONS Processing of words and changes in emotional speech prosody is impaired at various levels of information processing in school-aged children with ASD (no LI). SIGNIFICANCE The results suggest that low-level speech sound discrimination and orienting deficits might contribute to emotional speech prosody processing impairments observed in ASD.
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- R Lindström
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Pediatric Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Pediatric Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation and Medical Centre NeuroMental, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Child Neurology, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Haumann NT, Vuust P, Bertelsen F, Garza-Villarreal EA. Influence of Musical Enculturation on Brain Responses to Metric Deviants. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:218. [PMID: 29720932 PMCID: PMC5915898 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The ability to recognize metric accents is fundamental in both music and language perception. It has been suggested that music listeners prefer rhythms that follow simple binary meters, which are common in Western music. This means that listeners expect odd-numbered beats to be strong and even-numbered beats to be weak. In support of this, studies have shown that listeners exposed to Western music show stronger novelty and incongruity related P3 and irregularity detection related mismatch negativity (MMN) brain responses to attenuated odd- than attenuated even-numbered metric positions. Furthermore, behavioral evidence suggests that music listeners' preferences can be changed by long-term exposure to non-Western rhythms and meters, e.g., by listening to African or Balkan music. In our study, we investigated whether it might be possible to measure effects of music enculturation on neural responses to attenuated tones on specific metric positions. We compared the magnetic mismatch negativity (MMNm) to attenuated beats in a “Western group” of listeners (n = 12) mainly exposed to Western music and a “Bicultural group” of listeners (n = 13) exposed for at least 1 year to both Sub-Saharan African music in addition to Western music. We found that in the “Western group” the MMNm was higher in amplitude to deviant tones on odd compared to even metric positions, but not in the “Bicultural group.” In support of this finding, there was also a trend of the “Western group” to rate omitted beats as more surprising on odd than even metric positions, whereas the “Bicultural group” seemed to discriminate less between metric positions in terms of surprise ratings. Also, we observed that the overall latency of the MMNm was significantly shorter in the Bicultural group compared to the Western group. These effects were not biased by possible differences in rhythm perception ability or music training, measured with the Musical Ear Test (MET). Furthermore, source localization analyses suggest that auditory, inferior temporal, sensory-motor, superior frontal, and parahippocampal regions might be involved in eliciting the MMNm to the metric deviants. These findings suggest that effects of music enculturation can be measured on MMNm responses to attenuated tones on specific metric positions.
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- Niels T Haumann
- Department of Aesthetics and Communication (Musicology), Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Clinical Research Division, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRFM), Mexico City, Mexico.,Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico
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Distinct ERP profiles for auditory processing in infants at-risk for autism and language impairment. Sci Rep 2018; 8:715. [PMID: 29335488 PMCID: PMC5768787 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-19009-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is crucial for the formulation of effective intervention programs. Language deficits may be a hallmark feature of ASD and language delay observed in ASD shows striking similarities to that observed in children with language impairment (LI). Auditory processing deficits are seen in both LI and ASD, however, they have not previously been compared directly using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in the two at-risk populations. This study aims to characterize infants at-risk for ASD (HR-ASD) at the electrophysiological level and to compare them with infants at-risk for LI (HR-LI) and controls, to find specific markers with predictive value. At 12-month-old, auditory processing in HR-ASD, HR-LI and controls was characterized via ERP oddball paradigm. All infants were then evaluated at 20 months, to investigate the associations between auditory processing and language/ASD-related outcomes. In both HR-ASD and HR-LI, mismatch response latency was delayed compared to controls, whereas only HR-ASD showed overall larger P3 amplitude compared to controls. Interestingly, these ERP measures correlated with later expressive vocabulary and M-CHAT critical items in the whole sample. These results may support the use of objective measurement of auditory processing to delineate pathophysiological mechanisms in ASD, as compared to LI.
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Virtala P, Partanen E, Tervaniemi M, Kujala T. Neural discrimination of speech sound changes in a variable context occurs irrespective of attention and explicit awareness. Biol Psychol 2018; 132:217-227. [PMID: 29305875 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Revised: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/03/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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To process complex stimuli like language, our auditory system must tolerate large acoustic variance, like speaker variability, and still be sensitive enough to discriminate between phonemes and to detect complex sound relationships in, e.g., prosodic cues. Our study determined discrimination of speech sounds in input mimicking natural speech variability, and detection of deviations in regular pitch relationships (rule violations) between speech sounds. We investigated the automaticity and the influence of attention and explicit awareness on these changes by recording the neurophysiological mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a as well as task performance from 21 adults. The results showed neural discrimination of phonemes and rule violations as indicated by MMN and P3a, regardless of whether the sounds were attended or not, even when participants could not explicitly describe the rule. While small sample size precluded statistical analysis of some outcomes, we still found preliminary associations between the MMN amplitudes, task performance, and emerging explicit awareness of the rule. Our results highlight the automaticity of processing complex aspects of speech as a basis for the emerging conscious perception and explicit awareness of speech properties. While MMN operates at the implicit processing level, P3a appears to work at the borderline of implicit and explicit.
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- P Virtala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute for Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute for Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute for Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute for Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Marklund E, Lacerda F, Schwarz IC. Using rotated speech to approximate the acoustic mismatch negativity response to speech. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2018; 176:26-35. [PMID: 29172074 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 10/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The mismatch negativity (MMN) response is influenced by the magnitude of the acoustic difference between standard and deviant, and the response is typically larger to linguistically relevant changes than to linguistically irrelevant changes. Linguistically relevant changes between standard and deviant typically co-occur with differences between the two acoustic signals. It is therefore not straightforward to determine the contribution of each of those two factors to the MMN response. This study investigated whether spectrally rotated speech can be used to determine the impact of the acoustic difference on the MMN response to a combined linguistic and acoustic change between standard and deviant. Changes between rotated vowels elicited an MMN of comparable amplitude to the one elicited by a within-category vowel change, whereas the between-category vowel change resulted in an MMN amplitude of greater magnitude. A change between rotated vowels resulted in an MMN ampltude more similar to that of a within-vowel change than a complex tone change did. This suggests that the MMN amplitude reflecting the acoustic difference between two speech sounds can be well approximated by the MMN amplitude elicited in response to their rotated counterparts, in turn making it possible to estimate the part of the response specific to the linguistic difference.
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- Ellen Marklund
- Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Royal I, Zendel BR, Desjardins MÈ, Robitaille N, Peretz I. Modulation of electric brain responses evoked by pitch deviants through transcranial direct current stimulation. Neuropsychologia 2018; 109:63-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2017] [Revised: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kujala T, Leminen M. Low-level neural auditory discrimination dysfunctions in specific language impairment-A review on mismatch negativity findings. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2017; 28:65-75. [PMID: 29182947 PMCID: PMC6987907 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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In specific language impairment (SLI), there is a delay in the child’s oral language skills when compared with nonverbal cognitive abilities. The problems typically relate to phonological and morphological processing and word learning. This article reviews studies which have used mismatch negativity (MMN) in investigating low-level neural auditory dysfunctions in this disorder. With MMN, it is possible to tap the accuracy of neural sound discrimination and sensory memory functions. These studies have found smaller response amplitudes and longer latencies for speech and non-speech sound changes in children with SLI than in typically developing children, suggesting impaired and slow auditory discrimination in SLI. Furthermore, they suggest shortened sensory memory duration and vulnerability of the sensory memory to masking effects. Importantly, some studies reported associations between MMN parameters and language test measures. In addition, it was found that language intervention can influence the abnormal MMN in children with SLI, enhancing its amplitude. These results suggest that the MMN can shed light on the neural basis of various auditory and memory impairments in SLI, which are likely to influence speech perception.
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- Teija Kujala
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 21, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 21, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Phoniatrics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Niemitalo-Haapola E, Haapala S, Kujala T, Raappana A, Kujala T, Jansson-Verkasalo E. Noise Equally Degrades Central Auditory Processing in 2- and 4-Year-Old Children. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2017; 60:2297-2309. [PMID: 28763806 DOI: 10.1044/2017_jslhr-h-16-0267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate developmental and noise-induced changes in central auditory processing indexed by event-related potentials in typically developing children. METHOD P1, N2, and N4 responses as well as mismatch negativities (MMNs) were recorded for standard syllables and consonants, frequency, intensity, vowel, and vowel duration changes in silent and noisy conditions in the same 14 children at the ages of 2 and 4 years. RESULTS The P1 and N2 latencies decreased and the N2, N4, and MMN amplitudes increased with development of the children. The amplitude changes were strongest at frontal electrodes. At both ages, background noise decreased the P1 amplitude, increased the N2 amplitude, and shortened the N4 latency. The noise-induced amplitude changes of P1, N2, and N4 were strongest frontally. Furthermore, background noise degraded the MMN. At both ages, MMN was significantly elicited only by the consonant change, and at the age of 4 years, also by the vowel duration change during noise. CONCLUSIONS Developmental changes indexing maturation of central auditory processing were found from every response studied. Noise degraded sound encoding and echoic memory and impaired auditory discrimination at both ages. The older children were as vulnerable to the impact of noise as the younger children. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5233939.
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- Elina Niemitalo-Haapola
- Child Language Research Center, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Finland
- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
- Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Finland
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- PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center Oulu, Finland
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Musical rhythm and pitch: A differential effect on auditory dynamics as revealed by the N1/MMN/P3a complex. Neuropsychologia 2017; 100:44-50. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Revised: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sound-Making Actions Lead to Immediate Plastic Changes of Neuromagnetic Evoked Responses and Induced β-Band Oscillations during Perception. J Neurosci 2017; 37:5948-5959. [PMID: 28539421 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3613-16.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Auditory and sensorimotor brain areas interact during the action-perception cycle of sound making. Neurophysiological evidence of a feedforward model of the action and its outcome has been associated with attenuation of the N1 wave of auditory evoked responses elicited by self-generated sounds, such as talking and singing or playing a musical instrument. Moreover, neural oscillations at β-band frequencies have been related to predicting the sound outcome after action initiation. We hypothesized that a newly learned action-perception association would immediately modify interpretation of the sound during subsequent listening. Nineteen healthy young adults (7 female, 12 male) participated in three magnetoencephalographic recordings while first passively listening to recorded sounds of a bell ringing, then actively striking the bell with a mallet, and then again listening to recorded sounds. Auditory cortex activity showed characteristic P1-N1-P2 waves. The N1 was attenuated during sound making, while P2 responses were unchanged. In contrast, P2 became larger when listening after sound making compared with the initial naive listening. The P2 increase occurred immediately, while in previous learning-by-listening studies P2 increases occurred on a later day. Also, reactivity of β-band oscillations, as well as θ coherence between auditory and sensorimotor cortices, was stronger in the second listening block. These changes were significantly larger than those observed in control participants (eight female, five male), who triggered recorded sounds by a key press. We propose that P2 characterizes familiarity with sound objects, whereas β-band oscillation signifies involvement of the action-perception cycle, and both measures objectively indicate functional neuroplasticity in auditory perceptual learning.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT While suppression of auditory responses to self-generated sounds is well known, it is not clear whether the learned action-sound association modifies subsequent perception. Our study demonstrated the immediate effects of sound-making experience on perception using magnetoencephalographic recordings, as reflected in the increased auditory evoked P2 wave, increased responsiveness of β oscillations, and enhanced connectivity between auditory and sensorimotor cortices. The importance of motor learning was underscored as the changes were much smaller in a control group using a key press to generate the sounds instead of learning to play the musical instrument. The results support the rapid integration of a feedforward model during perception and provide a neurophysiological basis for the application of music making in motor rehabilitation training.
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Phoneme processing skills are reflected in children's MMN responses. Neuropsychologia 2017; 101:76-84. [PMID: 28506807 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Phonological awareness (PA), the core contributor in phoneme processing abilities, has a link to later reading skills in children. However, the associations between PA and neural auditory discrimination are not clear. We used event-related potential (ERP) methodology and neuropsychological testing to monitor the neurocognitive basis of phonological awareness in typically developing children. We measured 5-6-year-old children's (N=70) phoneme processing, word completion and perceptual reasoning skills and compared their test results to their brain responses to phonemic changes, separately for each test. We found that children performing better in Phoneme processing test showed larger mismatch negativity (MMN) responses than children scoring lower in the same test. In contrast, no correspondence between test scores and brain responses was found for Auditory closure. Thus, the results suggest that automatic auditory change detection is linked to phoneme awareness in preschool children.
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Kremláček J, Kreegipuu K, Tales A, Astikainen P, Põldver N, Näätänen R, Stefanics G. Visual mismatch negativity (vMMN): A review and meta-analysis of studies in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Cortex 2016; 80:76-112. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Revised: 01/31/2016] [Accepted: 03/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Iwatsuki K, Yoshida A, Shinohara T, Nakano T, Uemura JI, Goto S, Hirayama M, Hoshiyama M, Hirata H. Recovery function of somatosensory evoked brain response in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: A magnetoencephalographic study. Clin Neurophysiol 2016; 127:2733-2738. [PMID: 27417045 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.05.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Revised: 05/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The recovery function of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) was recorded to investigate excitatory and inhibitory balance in the somatosensory cortex of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. METHODS SEFs were recorded in patients and controls. Recordings were taken following median nerve stimulation with single and double pulses with interstimulus intervals of 10-200ms. The root mean square for the N20m component following the second stimulation was analyzed. SEFs following stimulation of the first and middle digits were also recorded and the location for the equivalent current dipoles was estimated in three-dimensional planes. RESULTS Distances on the vertical axis between the equivalent current dipoles for the first and third digits were shorter in patients than in control participants. The root mean square for the N20m recovered earlier in patients compared to controls; this was statistically significant at an interstimulus interval of 10ms. There was no relationship between N20m recovery and the equivalent current dipole location in the primary somatosensory cortex. CONCLUSIONS Carpal tunnel syndrome was associated with functional disinhibition and destruction of the somatotopic organization in the primary somatosensory cortex. SIGNIFICANCE Disinhibitory changes might induce a maladaptation of the central nervous system relating to pain.
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- Katsuyuki Iwatsuki
- Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
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- Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Department of Rehabilitation, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Pathophysiological Laboratory Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Pathophysiological Laboratory Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; Brain and Mind Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Hand Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Kuuluvainen S, Alku P, Makkonen T, Lipsanen J, Kujala T. Cortical speech and non-speech discrimination in relation to cognitive measures in preschool children. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 43:738-50. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2015] [Revised: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Soila Kuuluvainen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics; Aalto University; Helsinki Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit; Institute of Behavioural Sciences; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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Haapala S, Niemitalo-Haapola E, Raappana A, Kujala T, Suominen K, Jansson-Verkasalo E, Kujala T. Long-term influence of recurrent acute otitis media on neural involuntary attention switching in 2-year-old children. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS : BBF 2016; 12:1. [PMID: 26729018 PMCID: PMC4700565 DOI: 10.1186/s12993-015-0086-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND A large group of young children are exposed to repetitive middle ear infections but the effects of the fluctuating hearing sensations on immature central auditory system are not fully understood. The present study investigated the consequences of early childhood recurrent acute otitis media (RAOM) on involuntary auditory attention switching. METHODS By utilizing auditory event-related potentials, neural mechanisms of involuntary attention were studied in 22-26 month-old children (N = 18) who had had an early childhood RAOM and healthy controls (N = 19). The earlier and later phase of the P3a (eP3a and lP3a) and the late negativity (LN) were measured for embedded novel sounds in the passive multi-feature paradigm with repeating standard and deviant syllable stimuli. The children with RAOM had tympanostomy tubes inserted and all the children in both study groups had to have clinically healthy ears at the time of the measurement assessed by an otolaryngologist. RESULTS The results showed that lP3a amplitude diminished less from frontal to central and parietal areas in the children with RAOM than the controls. This might reflect an immature control of involuntary attention switch. Furthermore, the LN latency was longer in children with RAOM than in the controls, which suggests delayed reorientation of attention in RAOM. CONCLUSIONS The lP3a and LN responses are affected in toddlers who have had a RAOM even when their ears are healthy. This suggests detrimental long-term effects of RAOM on the neural mechanisms of involuntary attention.
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- Sini Haapala
- Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Publicum, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland.
- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, PO Box 21, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, PO Box 21, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
- Child Language Research Center and Logopedics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, PO Box 1000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, PO Box 21, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Oulu, PO Box 5000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Oulu, PO Box 5000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, PO Box 21, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
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- Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Publicum, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland.
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- Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Nan Y, Huang WT, Wang WJ, Liu C, Dong Q. Subgroup differences in the lexical tone mismatch negativity (MMN) among Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia. Biol Psychol 2016; 113:59-67. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Munivenkatappa A, Devi BI, Shukla DP, Rajeswaran J. Role of the thalamus in natural recovery of cognitive impairment in patients with mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Inj 2015; 30:388-392. [PMID: 26619364 DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2015.1089599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may have normal neuroimaging but manifest with a broad-spectrum of cognitive-deficits, which may resolve eventually. The function of the thalamus in the process of natural-recovery remains elusive. The current study investigates the role of the thalamus in natural-recovery of cognitive-deficits in patients with mTBI. METHODS Twenty-one patients with mTBI were evaluated with an initial MRI scan, within 36 hours of injury and assessed with neuropsychological tests(NPT) at 3-4 weeks after injury. First and second follow-up MRI and NPT were performed at 3-4 months and 6-7 months, respectively. The volume and tensor measures of the thalamus and cognitive-scores were analysed at each assessment using repeated-measures of variance. The association of cognitive-scores with corresponding period imaging measures was analysed using bivariate-correlation. RESULTS Serial evaluation showed that all the cognitive-domains improved significantly. During this period there was a significant increase in mean thalamic volume (p = 0.049, effect-size = 0.18). After 3-4 months there was emergence of anisotropic thalamo-cortical connections. At 2-3 weeks and 6-7 months after injury, the alterations in diffusivity values were positively associated with improvement in memory-scores. Improvement in attention-scores correlated significantly with changes in tensor values at the 6-7 months after-injury. CONCLUSION The correlation between improvement in cognitive-scores and changes in thalamic tensor and volume measures reflect the role of the thalamus in natural-recovery after mTBI.
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- c Department of Clinical Psychology , National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences , Bangalore , India
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Bringas ML, Zaldivar M, Rojas PA, Martinez-Montes K, Chongo DM, Ortega MA, Galvizu R, Perez AE, Morales LM, Maragoto C, Vera H, Galan L, Besson M, Valdes-Sosa PA. Effectiveness of music therapy as an aid to neurorestoration of children with severe neurological disorders. Front Neurosci 2015; 9:427. [PMID: 26582974 PMCID: PMC4631829 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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This study was a two-armed parallel group design aimed at testing real world effectiveness of a music therapy (MT) intervention for children with severe neurological disorders. The control group received only the standard neurorestoration program and the experimental group received an additional MT "Auditory Attention plus Communication protocol" just before the usual occupational and speech therapy. Multivariate Item Response Theory (MIRT) identified a neuropsychological status-latent variable manifested in all children and which exhibited highly significant changes only in the experimental group. Changes in brain plasticity also occurred in the experimental group, as evidenced using a Mismatch Event Related paradigm which revealed significant post intervention positive responses in the latency range between 308 and 400 ms in frontal regions. LORETA EEG source analysis identified prefrontal and midcingulate regions as differentially activated by the MT in the experimental group. Taken together, our results showing improved attention and communication as well as changes in brain plasticity in children with severe neurological impairments, confirm the importance of MT for the rehabilitation of patients across a wide range of dysfunctions.
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- Maria L. Bringas
- Laboratory of Neuroinformation, School of Life Sciences, University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of ChinaChengdu, China
- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
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- Laboratory of Neuroinformation, School of Life Sciences, University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of ChinaChengdu, China
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- Centro Internacional de Restauracion NeurologicaHabana, Cuba
- Centro de Neurociencias de CubaHabana, Cuba
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Marseille UniversitéMarseille, France
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- Laboratory of Neuroinformation, School of Life Sciences, University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of ChinaChengdu, China
- Centro de Neurociencias de CubaHabana, Cuba
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Lecaignard F, Bertrand O, Gimenez G, Mattout J, Caclin A. Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:505. [PMID: 26441602 PMCID: PMC4584941 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Deviant stimuli, violating regularities in a sensory environment, elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN), largely described in the Event-Related Potential literature. While it is widely accepted that the MMN reflects more than basic change detection, a comprehensive description of mental processes modulating this response is still lacking. Within the framework of predictive coding, deviance processing is part of an inference process where prediction errors (the mismatch between incoming sensations and predictions established through experience) are minimized. In this view, the MMN is a measure of prediction error, which yields specific expectations regarding its modulations by various experimental factors. In particular, it predicts that the MMN should decrease as the occurrence of a deviance becomes more predictable. We conducted a passive oddball EEG study and manipulated the predictability of sound sequences by means of different temporal structures. Importantly, our design allows comparing mismatch responses elicited by predictable and unpredictable violations of a simple repetition rule and therefore departs from previous studies that investigate violations of different time-scale regularities. We observed a decrease of the MMN with predictability and interestingly, a similar effect at earlier latencies, within 70 ms after deviance onset. Following these pre-attentive responses, a reduced P3a was measured in the case of predictable deviants. We conclude that early and late deviance responses reflect prediction errors, triggering belief updating within the auditory hierarchy. Beside, in this passive study, such perceptual inference appears to be modulated by higher-level implicit learning of sequence statistical structures. Our findings argue for a hierarchical model of auditory processing where predictive coding enables implicit extraction of environmental regularities.
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- Françoise Lecaignard
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France ; MEG Department, CERMEP Imaging Center Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France
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Caruso VC, Balaban E. Auditory Perceptual Category Formation Does Not Require Perceptual Warping. J Cogn Neurosci 2015; 27:1659-73. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Categorical perception occurs when a perceiver's stimulus classifications affect their ability to make fine perceptual discriminations and is the most intensively studied form of category learning. On the basis of categorical perception studies, it has been proposed that category learning proceeds by the deformation of an initially homogeneous perceptual space (“perceptual warping”), so that stimuli within the same category are perceived as more similar to each other (more difficult to tell apart) than stimuli that are the same physical distance apart but that belong to different categories. Here, we present a significant counterexample in which robust category learning occurs without these differential perceptual space deformations. Two artificial categories were defined along the dimension of pitch for a perceptually unfamiliar, multidimensional class of sounds. A group of participants (selected on the basis of their listening abilities) were trained to sort sounds into these two arbitrary categories. Category formation, verified empirically, was accompanied by a heightened sensitivity along the entire pitch range, as indicated by changes in an EEG index of implicit perceptual distance (mismatch negativity), with no significant resemblance to the local perceptual deformations predicted by categorical perception. This demonstrates that robust categories can be initially formed within a continuous perceptual dimension without perceptual warping. We suggest that perceptual category formation is a flexible, multistage process sequentially combining different types of learning mechanisms rather than a single process with a universal set of behavioral and neural correlates.
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Sun HY, Li Q, Chen XP, Tao LY. Mismatch negativity, social cognition, and functional outcomes in patients after traumatic brain injury. Neural Regen Res 2015; 10:618-23. [PMID: 26170824 PMCID: PMC4424756 DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.155437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Mismatch negativity is generated automatically, and is an early monitoring indicator of neuronal integrity impairment and functional abnormality in patients with brain injury, leading to decline of cognitive function. Antipsychotic medication cannot affect mismatch negativity. The present study aimed to explore the relationships of mismatch negativity with neurocognition, daily life and social functional outcomes in patients after brain injury. Twelve patients with traumatic brain injury and 12 healthy controls were recruited in this study. We examined neurocognition with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised China, and daily and social functional outcomes with the Activity of Daily Living Scale and Social Disability Screening Schedule, respectively. Mismatch negativity was analyzed from electroencephalogram recording. The results showed that mismatch negativity amplitudes decreased in patients with traumatic brain injury compared with healthy controls. Mismatch negativity amplitude was negatively correlated with measurements of neurocognition and positively correlated with functional outcomes in patients after traumatic brain injury. Further, the most significant positive correlations were found between mismatch negativity in the fronto-central region and measures of functional outcomes. The most significant positive correlations were also found between mismatch negativity at the FCz electrode and daily living function. Mismatch negativity amplitudes were extremely positively associated with Social Disability Screening Schedule scores at the Fz electrode in brain injury patients. These experimental findings suggest that mismatch negativity might efficiently reflect functional outcomes in patients after traumatic brain injury.
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- Hui-Yan Sun
- Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China ; Department of Forensic Medicine, Chifeng University, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Chifeng University, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Tamminen H, Peltola MS, Kujala T, Näätänen R. Phonetic training and non-native speech perception — New memory traces evolve in just three days as indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN) and behavioural measures. Int J Psychophysiol 2015; 97:23-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Revised: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Heimrath K, Breitling C, Krauel K, Heinze HJ, Zaehle T. Modulation of pre-attentive spectro-temporal feature processing in the human auditory system by HD-tDCS. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 41:1580-6. [PMID: 25847301 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Revised: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The present study examined the functional lateralization of the human auditory cortex (AC) for pre-attentive spectro-temporal feature processing. By using high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS), we systematically modulated neuronal activity of the bilateral AC. We assessed the influence of anodal and cathodal HD-tDCS delivered over the left or right AC on auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to temporal as well as spectral deviants in 12 healthy subjects. The results showed that MMN to temporal deviants was significantly enhanced by anodal HD-tDCS applied over the left AC only. Our data indicate a left hemispheric dominance for the pre-attentive processing of low-level temporal information.
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- Kai Heimrath
- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.,Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany.,Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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Ylinen S, Kujala T. Neuroscience illuminating the influence of auditory or phonological intervention on language-related deficits. Front Psychol 2015; 6:137. [PMID: 25741305 PMCID: PMC4330793 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Remediation programs for language-related learning deficits are urgently needed to enable equal opportunities in education. To meet this need, different training and intervention programs have been developed. Here we review, from an educational perspective, studies that have explored the neural basis of behavioral changes induced by auditory or phonological training in dyslexia, specific language impairment (SLI), and language-learning impairment (LLI). Training has been shown to induce plastic changes in deficient neural networks. In dyslexia, these include, most consistently, increased or normalized activation of previously hypoactive inferior frontal and occipito-temporal areas. In SLI and LLI, studies have shown the strengthening of previously weak auditory brain responses as a result of training. The combination of behavioral and brain measures of remedial gains has potential to increase the understanding of the causes of language-related deficits, which may help to target remedial interventions more accurately to the core problem.
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- Sari Ylinen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
- *Correspondence: Sari Ylinen, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland e-mail:
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
- Cicero Learning, University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland
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Zhao M, Liu T, Chen G, Chen F. Are scalar implicatures automatically processed and different for each individual? A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. Brain Res 2014; 1599:137-49. [PMID: 25542387 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.11.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 11/16/2014] [Accepted: 11/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Scalar implicatures are ordinarily activated in human communication when the speaker uses a weak expression (e.g., some) from a set of stronger alternatives (e.g., many, all). It has been debated whether scalar inferences are generated by default. To clarify this issue and examine whether individual pragmatic ability will affect the mechanism of scalar inference processing, we performed experiment with an MMN paradigm to capture the neurophysiological indicators of automatic processing of spoken sentences and divided participants into high and low pragmatic ability groups. Experimental results showed that compared with the condition that an informative sentence ("Some animals have tails") is the deviant stimuli, when an underinformative sentence ("Some tigers have tails") is the deviant stimuli, the high pragmatic ability group induced mismatch negativity (MMN) and sustained negativity, while the low pragmatic ability group had no ERP effects. These results indicated that at least some people can automatically activate the scalar implicatures when encountering scalar trigger words, even in the inattentive status.
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- Ming Zhao
- School of Literature, Law & Politics, China University of Mining and Technology, China; Bio-X Laboratory, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jiangsu Normal University, China
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- School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University, China
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- Bio-X Laboratory, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China.
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Bradley C, Joyce N, Garcia-Larrea L. Adaptation in human somatosensory cortex as a model of sensory memory construction: a study using high-density EEG. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 221:421-31. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0915-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stefanics G, Kremláček J, Czigler I. Visual mismatch negativity: a predictive coding view. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:666. [PMID: 25278859 PMCID: PMC4165279 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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An increasing number of studies investigate the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) or use the vMMN as a tool to probe various aspects of human cognition. This paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of vMMN in the light of methodological considerations and provides recommendations for measuring and interpreting the vMMN. The following key issues are discussed from the experimentalist's point of view in a predictive coding framework: (1) experimental protocols and procedures to control "refractoriness" effects; (2) methods to control attention; (3) vMMN and veridical perception.
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- Gábor Stefanics
- Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of ZurichETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University in PragueHradec Králové, Czech Republic
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- Research Center for Natural Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of SciencesBudapest, Hungary
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Jansson-Verkasalo E, Eggers K, Järvenpää A, Suominen K, Van den Bergh B, De Nil L, Kujala T. Atypical central auditory speech-sound discrimination in children who stutter as indexed by the mismatch negativity. JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS 2014; 41:1-11. [PMID: 25066139 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2014.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Revised: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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PURPOSE Recent theoretical conceptualizations suggest that disfluencies in stuttering may arise from several factors, one of them being atypical auditory processing. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate whether speech sound encoding and central auditory discrimination, are affected in children who stutter (CWS). METHODS Participants were 10 CWS, and 12 typically developing children with fluent speech (TDC). Event-related potentials (ERPs) for syllables and syllable changes [consonant, vowel, vowel-duration, frequency (F0), and intensity changes], critical in speech perception and language development of CWS were compared to those of TDC. RESULTS There were no significant group differences in the amplitudes or latencies of the P1 or N2 responses elicited by the standard stimuli. However, the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) amplitude was significantly smaller in CWS than in TDC. For TDC all deviants of the linguistic multifeature paradigm elicited significant MMN amplitudes, comparable with the results found earlier with the same paradigm in 6-year-old children. In contrast, only the duration change elicited a significant MMN in CWS. CONCLUSIONS The results showed that central auditory speech-sound processing was typical at the level of sound encoding in CWS. In contrast, central speech-sound discrimination, as indexed by the MMN for multiple sound features (both phonetic and prosodic), was atypical in the group of CWS. Findings were linked to existing conceptualizations on stuttering etiology. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The reader will be able (a) to describe recent findings on central auditory speech-sound processing in individuals who stutter, (b) to describe the measurement of auditory reception and central auditory speech-sound discrimination, (c) to describe the findings of central auditory speech-sound discrimination, as indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN), in children who stutter.
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- Eira Jansson-Verkasalo
- Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, Logopedics, University of Turku, Finland; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
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- Department of Speech-Language Therapy and Audiology, Thomas More University College Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Finland.
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- Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Canada; Experimental Otorinolaryngology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Kuuluvainen S, Nevalainen P, Sorokin A, Mittag M, Partanen E, Putkinen V, Seppänen M, Kähkönen S, Kujala T. The neural basis of sublexical speech and corresponding nonspeech processing: a combined EEG-MEG study. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2014; 130:19-32. [PMID: 24576806 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Revised: 01/10/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We addressed the neural organization of speech versus nonspeech sound processing by investigating preattentive cortical auditory processing of changes in five features of a consonant-vowel syllable (consonant, vowel, sound duration, frequency, and intensity) and their acoustically matched nonspeech counterparts in a simultaneous EEG-MEG recording of mismatch negativity (MMN/MMNm). Overall, speech-sound processing was enhanced compared to nonspeech sound processing. This effect was strongest for changes which affect word meaning (consonant, vowel, and vowel duration) in the left and for the vowel identity change in the right hemisphere also. Furthermore, in the right hemisphere, speech-sound frequency and intensity changes were processed faster than their nonspeech counterparts, and there was a trend for speech-enhancement in frequency processing. In summary, the results support the proposed existence of long-term memory traces for speech sounds in the auditory cortices, and indicate at least partly distinct neural substrates for speech and nonspeech sound processing.
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- Soila Kuuluvainen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- BioMag Laboratory, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, HUS Medical Imaging Center, P.O. Box 340, 00029 HUS, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Mental Health Research Centre, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Kashirskoe sh. 34, 115522 Moscow, Russia; Centre of Neurobiological Diagnostics, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Sretenka 29, 127051 Moscow, Russia
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; University Of Washington, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- BioMag Laboratory, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, HUS Medical Imaging Center, P.O. Box 340, 00029 HUS, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; CICERO Learning, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, P.O. Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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Skoe E, Chandrasekaran B, Spitzer ER, Wong PC, Kraus N. Human brainstem plasticity: The interaction of stimulus probability and auditory learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2014; 109:82-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2013] [Revised: 10/14/2013] [Accepted: 11/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hövel H, Partanen E, Huotilainen M, Lindgren M, Rosén I, Fellman V. Auditory event-related potentials at preschool age in children born very preterm. Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:449-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Partanen E, Kujala T, Tervaniemi M, Huotilainen M. Prenatal music exposure induces long-term neural effects. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78946. [PMID: 24205353 PMCID: PMC3813619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We investigated the neural correlates induced by prenatal exposure to melodies using brains' event-related potentials (ERPs). During the last trimester of pregnancy, the mothers in the learning group played the ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’ -melody 5 times per week. After birth and again at the age of 4 months, we played the infants a modified melody in which some of the notes were changed while ERPs to unchanged and changed notes were recorded. The ERPs were also recorded from a control group, who received no prenatal stimulation. Both at birth and at the age of 4 months, infants in the learning group had stronger ERPs to the unchanged notes than the control group. Furthermore, the ERP amplitudes to the changed and unchanged notes at birth were correlated with the amount of prenatal exposure. Our results show that extensive prenatal exposure to a melody induces neural representations that last for several months.
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- Eino Partanen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ; Finnish Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Deparment of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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