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Criel Y, Depuydt E, Miatton M, Santens P, van Mierlo P, De Letter M. Cortical Generators and Connections Underlying Phoneme Perception: A Mismatch Negativity and P300 Investigation. Brain Topogr 2024; 37:1089-1117. [PMID: 38958833 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-024-01065-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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The cortical generators of the pure tone MMN and P300 have been thoroughly studied. Their nature and interaction with respect to phoneme perception, however, is poorly understood. Accordingly, the cortical sources and functional connections that underlie the MMN and P300 in relation to passive and active speech sound perception were identified. An inattentive and attentive phonemic oddball paradigm, eliciting a MMN and P300 respectively, were administered in 60 healthy adults during simultaneous high-density EEG recording. For both the MMN and P300, eLORETA source reconstruction was performed. The maximal cross-correlation was calculated between ROI-pairs to investigate inter-regional functional connectivity specific to passive and active deviant processing. MMN activation clusters were identified in the temporal (insula, superior temporal gyrus and temporal pole), frontal (rostral middle frontal and pars opercularis) and parietal (postcentral and supramarginal gyrus) cortex. Passive discrimination of deviant phonemes was aided by a network connecting right temporoparietal cortices to left frontal areas. For the P300, clusters with significantly higher activity were found in the frontal (caudal middle frontal and precentral), parietal (precuneus) and cingulate (posterior and isthmus) cortex. Significant intra- and interhemispheric connections between parietal, cingulate and occipital regions constituted the network governing active phonemic target detection. A predominantly bilateral network was found to underly both the MMN and P300. While passive phoneme discrimination is aided by a fronto-temporo-parietal network, active categorization calls on a network entailing fronto-parieto-cingulate cortices. Neural processing of phonemic contrasts, as reflected by the MMN and P300, does not appear to show pronounced lateralization to the language-dominant hemisphere.
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- Yana Criel
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Medical Imaging and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical Imaging and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Meehan S, Adank ML, van der Schroeff MP, Vroegop JL. A systematic review of acoustic change complex (ACC) measurements and applicability in children for the assessment of the neural capacity for sound and speech discrimination. Hear Res 2024; 451:109090. [PMID: 39047579 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.109090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 07/11/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The acoustic change complex (ACC) is a cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) and can be elicited by a change in an otherwise continuous sound. The ACC has been highlighted as a promising tool in the assessment of sound and speech discrimination capacity, and particularly for difficult-to-test populations such as infants with hearing loss, due to the objective nature of ACC measurements. Indeed, there is a pressing need to develop further means to accurately and thoroughly establish the hearing status of children with hearing loss, to help guide hearing interventions in a timely manner. Despite the potential of the ACC method, ACC measurements remain relatively rare in a standard clinical settings. The objective of this study was to perform an up-to-date systematic review on ACC measurements in children, to provide greater clarity and consensus on the possible methodologies, applications, and performance of this technique, and to facilitate its uptake in relevant clinical settings. DESIGN Original peer-reviewed articles conducting ACC measurements in children (< 18 years). Data were extracted and summarised for: (1) participant characteristics; (2) ACC methods and auditory stimuli; (3) information related to the performance of the ACC technique; (4) ACC measurement outcomes, advantages, and challenges. The systematic review was conducted using PRISMA guidelines for reporting and the methodological quality of included articles was assessed. RESULTS A total of 28 studies were identified (9 infant studies). Review results show that ACC responses can be measured in infants (from < 3 months), and there is evidence of age-dependency, including increased robustness of the ACC response with increasing childhood age. Clinical applications include the measurement of the neural capacity for speech and non-speech sound discrimination in children with hearing loss, auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) and central auditory processing disorder (CAPD). Additionally, ACCs can be recorded in children with hearing aids, auditory brainstem implants, and cochlear implants, and ACC results may guide hearing intervention/rehabilitation strategies. The review identified that the time taken to perform ACC measurements was often lengthy; the development of more efficient ACC test procedures for children would be beneficial. Comparisons between objective ACC measurements and behavioural measures of sound discrimination showed significant correlations for some, but not all, included studies. CONCLUSIONS ACC measurements of the neural capacity to discriminate between speech and non-speech sounds are feasible in infants and children, and a wide range of possible clinical applications exist, although more time-efficient procedures would be advantageous for clinical uptake. A consideration of age and maturational effects is recommended, and further research is required to investigate the relationship between objective ACC measures and behavioural measures of sound and speech perception for effective clinical implementation.
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- Sarah Meehan
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Seol HY, Kang S, Kim S, Kim J, Kim E, Hong SH, Moon IJ. P1 and N1 Characteristics in Individuals with Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss, and Cochlear Implant Users: A Pilot Study. J Clin Med 2024; 13:4941. [PMID: 39201083 PMCID: PMC11355419 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13164941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2024] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 08/20/2024] [Indexed: 09/02/2024] Open
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Background: It has been reported in many previous studies that the lack of auditory input due to hearing loss (HL) can induce changes in the brain. However, most of these studies have focused on individuals with pre-lingual HL and have predominantly compared the characteristics of those with normal hearing (NH) to cochlear implant (CI) users in children. This study examined the visual and auditory evoked potential characteristics in NH listeners, individuals with bilateral HL, and CI users, including those with single-sided deafness. Methods: A total of sixteen participants (seven NH listeners, four individuals with bilateral sensorineural HL, and five CI users) completed speech testing in quiet and noise and evoked potential testing. For speech testing, the Korean version of the Hearing in Noise Test was used to assess individuals' speech understanding ability in quiet and in noise (noise from the front, +90 degrees, and -90 degrees). For evoked potential testing, visual and auditory (1000 Hz, /ba/, and /da/) evoked potentials were measured. Results: The results showed that CI users understood speech better than those with HL in all conditions except for the noise from +90 and -90 degrees. In the CI group, a decrease in P1 amplitudes was noted across all channels after implantation. The NH group exhibited the highest amplitudes, followed by the HL group, with the CI group (post-CI) showing the lowest amplitudes. In terms of auditory evoked potentials, the smallest amplitude was observed in the pre-CI condition regardless of the type of stimulus. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that examined visual and auditory evoked potentials based on various hearing profiles. The characteristics of evoked potentials varied across participant groups, and further studies with CI users are necessary, as there are significant challenges in collecting and analyzing evoked potentials due to artifact issues on the CI side.
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- Hye Yoon Seol
- Department of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Human–Computer Interaction, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Republic of Korea
- Department of Interdisciplinary Robot Engineering Systems, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Robot Engineering Systems, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Human–Computer Interaction, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Soree Ear Clinic, Seoul 07560, Republic of Korea
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- Hearing Research Laboratory, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul 16419, Republic of Korea
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 03181, Republic of Korea
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Castejón J, Chen F, Yasoda-Mohan A, Ó Sé C, Vanneste S. Chronic pain - A maladaptive compensation to unbalanced hierarchical predictive processing. Neuroimage 2024; 297:120711. [PMID: 38942099 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120711] [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: 03/04/2024] [Revised: 06/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/30/2024] Open
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The ability to perceive pain presents an interesting evolutionary advantage to adapt to an ever-changing environment. However, in the case of chronic pain (CP), pain perception hinders the capacity of the system to adapt to changing sensory environments. Similar to other chronic perceptual disorders, CP is also proposed to be a maladaptive compensation to aberrant sensory predictive processing. The local-global oddball paradigm relies on learning hierarchical rules and processing environmental irregularities at a local and global level. Prediction errors (PE) between actual and predicted input typically trigger an update of the forward model to limit the probability of encountering future PEs. It has been hypothesised that CP hinders forward model updating, reflected in increased local deviance and decreased global deviance. In the present study, we used the local-global paradigm to examine how CP influences hierarchical learning relative to healthy controls. As hypothesised, we observed that deviance in the stimulus characteristics evoked heightened local deviance and decreased global deviance of the stimulus-driven PE. This is also accompanied by respective changes in theta phase locking that is correlated with the subjective pain perception. Changes in the global deviant in the stimulus-driven-PE could also be explained by dampened attention-related responses. Changing the context of the auditory stimulus did not however show a difference in the context-driven PE. These findings suggest that CP is accompanied by maladaptive forward model updating where the constant presence of pain perception disrupts local deviance in non-nociceptive domains. Furthermore, we hypothesise that the auditory-processing based biomarker identified here could be a marker of domain-general dysfunction that could be confirmed by future research.
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- Jorge Castejón
- Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Senior MSK Physiotherapist CompassPhysio LTD, Ireland
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- Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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Šodan A, Meunier S, Péan V, Lavieille JP, Roman S, Macherey O. Asymmetry in the Perception of Electrical Chirps Presented to Cochlear Implant Listeners. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2024:10.1007/s10162-024-00952-3. [PMID: 39090303 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-024-00952-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Although a broadband acoustic click is physically the shortest duration sound we can hear, its peripheral neural representation is not as short because of cochlear filtering. The traveling wave imposes frequency-dependent delays to the sound waveform so that in response to a click, apical nerve fibers, coding for low frequencies, are excited several milliseconds after basal fibers, coding for high frequencies. Nevertheless, a click sounds like a click and these across-fiber delays are not perceived. This suggests that they may be compensated by the central auditory system, rendering our perception consistent with the external world. This explanation is difficult to evaluate in normal-hearing listeners because the contributions of peripheral and central auditory processing cannot easily be disentangled. Here, we test this hypothesis in cochlear implant listeners for whom cochlear mechanics is bypassed. METHOD Eight cochlear implant users ranked in perceived duration 12 electrical chirps of various physical durations and spanning the cochlea in the apex-to-base or base-to-apex direction (Exp. 1). Late-latency cortical potentials were also recorded in response to a subset of these chirps (Exp. 2). RESULTS We show that an electrical chirp spanning the cochlea from base-to-apex is perceived as shorter than the same chirp spanning the cochlea in the opposite direction despite having the same physical duration. Cortical potentials also provide neural correlates of this asymmetry in perception. CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that the central auditory system processes frequency sweeps differently depending on the direction of the frequency change and that this processing difference is not simply the result of peripheral filtering.
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- Ana Šodan
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, LMA UMR 7031, 13013, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, LMA UMR 7031, 13013, Marseille, France
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- Department of ORL, Laboratory of Applied Biomechanics, LDV unit, 13002, Marseille, France
- University Hospital Nord, 13015, Marseille, France
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- Institut de Neurosciences des systèmes, Inserm UMR1106, Aix-Marseille Univ., 13005, Marseille, France
- Dept. of Pediatric Otolaryngology and Neck Surgery, Aix-Marseille Univ., 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, LMA UMR 7031, 13013, Marseille, France
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Rizzo M, Petrini L, Del Percio C, Arendt-Nielsen L, Babiloni C. Neurophysiological Oscillatory Mechanisms Underlying the Effect of Mirror Visual Feedback-Induced Illusion of Hand Movements on Nociception and Cortical Activation. Brain Sci 2024; 14:696. [PMID: 39061436 PMCID: PMC11274372 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14070696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2024] [Revised: 07/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Mirror Visual Feedback (MVF)-induced illusion of hand movements produces beneficial effects in patients with chronic pain. However, neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects are poorly known. In this preliminary study, we test the novel hypothesis that such an MVF-induced movement illusion may exert its effects by changing the activity in midline cortical areas associated with pain processing. Electrical stimuli with individually fixed intensity were applied to the left hand of healthy adults to produce painful and non-painful sensations during unilateral right-hand movements with such an MVF illusion and right and bilateral hand movements without MVF. During these events, electroencephalographic (EEG) activity was recorded from 64 scalp electrodes. Event-related desynchronization (ERD) of EEG alpha rhythms (8-12 Hz) indexed the neurophysiological oscillatory mechanisms inducing cortical activation. Compared to the painful sensations, the non-painful sensations were specifically characterized by (1) lower alpha ERD estimated in the cortical midline, angular gyrus, and lateral parietal regions during the experimental condition with MVF and (2) higher alpha ERD estimated in the lateral prefrontal and parietal regions during the control conditions without MVF. These preliminary results suggest that the MVF-induced movement illusion may affect nociception and neurophysiological oscillatory mechanisms, reducing the activation in cortical limbic and default mode regions.
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- Marco Rizzo
- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), SMI®, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (M.R.); (L.P.); (L.A.-N.)
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- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), SMI®, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (M.R.); (L.P.); (L.A.-N.)
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “V. Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy;
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- Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), SMI®, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark; (M.R.); (L.P.); (L.A.-N.)
- Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Mech-Sense, Aalborg University Hospital, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “V. Erspamer”, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy;
- Hospital San Raffaele Cassino, 03043 Cassino, Italy
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Tang T, Samaha J, Peters MAK. Behavioral and neural measures of confidence using a novel auditory pitch identification task. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0299784. [PMID: 38950011 PMCID: PMC11216601 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/03/2024] Open
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Observers can discriminate between correct versus incorrect perceptual decisions with feelings of confidence. The centro-parietal positivity build-up rate (CPP slope) has been suggested as a likely neural signature of accumulated evidence, which may guide both perceptual performance and confidence. However, CPP slope also covaries with reaction time, which also covaries with confidence in previous studies, and performance and confidence typically covary; thus, CPP slope may index signatures of perceptual performance rather than confidence per se. Moreover, perceptual metacognition-including neural correlates-has largely been studied in vision, with few exceptions. Thus, we lack understanding of domain-general neural signatures of perceptual metacognition outside vision. Here we designed a novel auditory pitch identification task and collected behavior with simultaneous 32-channel EEG in healthy adults. Participants saw two tone labels which varied in tonal distance on each trial (e.g., C vs D, C vs F), then heard a single auditory tone; they identified which label was correct and rated confidence. We found that pitch identification confidence varied with tonal distance, but performance, metacognitive sensitivity (trial-by-trial covariation of confidence with accuracy), and reaction time did not. Interestingly, however, while CPP slope covaried with performance and reaction time, it did not significantly covary with confidence. We interpret these results to mean that CPP slope is likely a signature of first-order perceptual processing and not confidence-specific signals or computations in auditory tasks. Our novel pitch identification task offers a valuable method to examine the neural correlates of auditory and domain-general perceptual confidence.
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- Tamara Tang
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States of America
- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America
- Program in Brain, Mind, & Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada
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Cheng FY, Campbell J, Liu C. Auditory Sensory Gating: Effects of Noise. BIOLOGY 2024; 13:443. [PMID: 38927323 PMCID: PMC11200888 DOI: 10.3390/biology13060443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 06/06/2024] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) indicate that noise degrades auditory neural encoding, causing decreased peak amplitude and increased peak latency. Different types of noise affect CAEP responses, with greater informational masking causing additional degradation. In noisy conditions, attention can improve target signals' neural encoding, reflected by an increased CAEP amplitude, which may be facilitated through various inhibitory mechanisms at both pre-attentive and attentive levels. While previous research has mainly focused on inhibition effects during attentive auditory processing in noise, the impact of noise on the neural response during the pre-attentive phase remains unclear. Therefore, this preliminary study aimed to assess the auditory gating response, reflective of the sensory inhibitory stage, to repeated vowel pairs presented in background noise. CAEPs were recorded via high-density EEG in fifteen normal-hearing adults in quiet and noise conditions with low and high informational masking. The difference between the average CAEP peak amplitude evoked by each vowel in the pair was compared across conditions. Scalp maps were generated to observe general cortical inhibitory networks in each condition. Significant gating occurred in quiet, while noise conditions resulted in a significantly decreased gating response. The gating function was significantly degraded in noise with less informational masking content, coinciding with a reduced activation of inhibitory gating networks. These findings illustrate the adverse effect of noise on pre-attentive inhibition related to speech perception.
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; (F.-Y.C.); (C.L.)
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Wang B, Otten LJ, Schulze K, Afrah H, Varney L, Cotic M, Saadullah Khani N, Linden JF, Kuchenbaecker K, McQuillin A, Hall MH, Bramon E. Is auditory processing measured by the N100 an endophenotype for psychosis? A family study and a meta-analysis. Psychol Med 2024; 54:1559-1572. [PMID: 37997703 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291723003409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND The N100, an early auditory event-related potential, has been found to be altered in patients with psychosis. However, it is unclear if the N100 is a psychosis endophenotype that is also altered in the relatives of patients. METHODS We conducted a family study using the auditory oddball paradigm to compare the N100 amplitude and latency across 243 patients with psychosis, 86 unaffected relatives, and 194 controls. We then conducted a systematic review and a random-effects meta-analysis pooling our results and 14 previously published family studies. We compared data from a total of 999 patients, 1192 relatives, and 1253 controls in order to investigate the evidence and degree of N100 differences. RESULTS In our family study, patients showed reduced N100 amplitudes and prolonged N100 latencies compared to controls, but no significant differences were found between unaffected relatives and controls. The meta-analysis revealed a significant reduction of the N100 amplitude and delay of the N100 latency in both patients with psychosis (standardized mean difference [s.m.d.] = -0.48 for N100 amplitude and s.m.d. = 0.43 for N100 latency) and their relatives (s.m.d. = - 0.19 for N100 amplitude and s.m.d. = 0.33 for N100 latency). However, only the N100 latency changes in relatives remained significant when excluding studies with affected relatives. CONCLUSIONS N100 changes, especially prolonged N100 latencies, are present in both patients with psychosis and their relatives, making the N100 a promising endophenotype for psychosis. Such changes in the N100 may reflect changes in early auditory processing underlying the etiology of psychosis.
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- Baihan Wang
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Genetics & Genomic Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Ear Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Division of Biosciences, UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Psychosis Neurobiology Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
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Gonzalez JE, Nieto N, Brusco P, Gravano A, Kamienkowski JE. Speech-induced suppression during natural dialogues. Commun Biol 2024; 7:291. [PMID: 38459110 PMCID: PMC10923813 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05945-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024] Open
Abstract
When engaged in a conversation, one receives auditory information from the other's speech but also from their own speech. However, this information is processed differently by an effect called Speech-Induced Suppression. Here, we studied brain representation of acoustic properties of speech in natural unscripted dialogues, using electroencephalography (EEG) and high-quality speech recordings from both participants. Using encoding techniques, we were able to reproduce a broad range of previous findings on listening to another's speech, and achieving even better performances when predicting EEG signal in this complex scenario. Furthermore, we found no response when listening to oneself, using different acoustic features (spectrogram, envelope, etc.) and frequency bands, evidencing a strong effect of SIS. The present work shows that this mechanism is present, and even stronger, during natural dialogues. Moreover, the methodology presented here opens the possibility of a deeper understanding of the related mechanisms in a wider range of contexts.
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- Joaquin E Gonzalez
- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigación en Señales, Sistemas e Inteligencia Computacional, sinc(i) (Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Santa Fe, Argentina
- Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral, IMAL-UNL/CONICET, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Maestria de Explotación de Datos y Descubrimiento del Conocimiento, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Liu J, Stohl J, Overath T. Hidden hearing loss: Fifteen years at a glance. Hear Res 2024; 443:108967. [PMID: 38335624 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.108967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Hearing loss affects approximately 18% of the population worldwide. Hearing difficulties in noisy environments without accompanying audiometric threshold shifts likely affect an even larger percentage of the global population. One of the potential causes of hidden hearing loss is cochlear synaptopathy, the loss of synapses between inner hair cells (IHC) and auditory nerve fibers (ANF). These synapses are the most vulnerable structures in the cochlea to noise exposure or aging. The loss of synapses causes auditory deafferentation, i.e., the loss of auditory afferent information, whose downstream effect is the loss of information that is sent to higher-order auditory processing stages. Understanding the physiological and perceptual effects of this early auditory deafferentation might inform interventions to prevent later, more severe hearing loss. In the past decade, a large body of work has been devoted to better understand hidden hearing loss, including the causes of hidden hearing loss, their corresponding impact on the auditory pathway, and the use of auditory physiological measures for clinical diagnosis of auditory deafferentation. This review synthesizes the findings from studies in humans and animals to answer some of the key questions in the field, and it points to gaps in knowledge that warrant more investigation. Specifically, recent studies suggest that some electrophysiological measures have the potential to function as indicators of hidden hearing loss in humans, but more research is needed for these measures to be included as part of a clinical test battery.
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- Jiayue Liu
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA.
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- North American Research Laboratory, MED-EL Corporation, Durham, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, USA
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Kurteff GL, Lester-Smith RA, Martinez A, Currens N, Holder J, Villarreal C, Mercado VR, Truong C, Huber C, Pokharel P, Hamilton LS. Speaker-induced Suppression in EEG during a Naturalistic Reading and Listening Task. J Cogn Neurosci 2023; 35:1538-1556. [PMID: 37584593 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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Speaking elicits a suppressed neural response when compared with listening to others' speech, a phenomenon known as speaker-induced suppression (SIS). Previous research has focused on investigating SIS at constrained levels of linguistic representation, such as the individual phoneme and word level. Here, we present scalp EEG data from a dual speech perception and production task where participants read sentences aloud then listened to playback of themselves reading those sentences. Playback was separated into immediate repetition of the previous trial and randomized repetition of a former trial to investigate if forward modeling of responses during passive listening suppresses the neural response. Concurrent EMG was recorded to control for movement artifact during speech production. In line with previous research, ERP analyses at the sentence level demonstrated suppression of early auditory components of the EEG for production compared with perception. To evaluate whether linguistic abstractions (in the form of phonological feature tuning) are suppressed during speech production alongside lower-level acoustic information, we fit linear encoding models that predicted scalp EEG based on phonological features, EMG activity, and task condition. We found that phonological features were encoded similarly between production and perception. However, this similarity was only observed when controlling for movement by using the EMG response as an additional regressor. Our results suggest that SIS operates at a sensory representational level and is dissociated from higher order cognitive and linguistic processing that takes place during speech perception and production. We also detail some important considerations when analyzing EEG during continuous speech production.
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Berger JI, Gander PE, Kim S, Schwalje AT, Woo J, Na YM, Holmes A, Hong JM, Dunn CC, Hansen MR, Gantz BJ, McMurray B, Griffiths TD, Choi I. Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Speech-in-Noise Performance in a Large Cohort of Cochlear Implant Users. Ear Hear 2023; 44:1107-1120. [PMID: 37144890 PMCID: PMC10426791 DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Understanding speech-in-noise (SiN) is a complex task that recruits multiple cortical subsystems. Individuals vary in their ability to understand SiN. This cannot be explained by simple peripheral hearing profiles, but recent work by our group ( Kim et al. 2021 , Neuroimage ) highlighted central neural factors underlying the variance in SiN ability in normal hearing (NH) subjects. The present study examined neural predictors of SiN ability in a large cohort of cochlear-implant (CI) users. DESIGN We recorded electroencephalography in 114 postlingually deafened CI users while they completed the California consonant test: a word-in-noise task. In many subjects, data were also collected on two other commonly used clinical measures of speech perception: a word-in-quiet task (consonant-nucleus-consonant) word and a sentence-in-noise task (AzBio sentences). Neural activity was assessed at a vertex electrode (Cz), which could help maximize eventual generalizability to clinical situations. The N1-P2 complex of event-related potentials (ERPs) at this location were included in multiple linear regression analyses, along with several other demographic and hearing factors as predictors of SiN performance. RESULTS In general, there was a good agreement between the scores on the three speech perception tasks. ERP amplitudes did not predict AzBio performance, which was predicted by the duration of device use, low-frequency hearing thresholds, and age. However, ERP amplitudes were strong predictors for performance for both word recognition tasks: the California consonant test (which was conducted simultaneously with electroencephalography recording) and the consonant-nucleus-consonant (conducted offline). These correlations held even after accounting for known predictors of performance including residual low-frequency hearing thresholds. In CI-users, better performance was predicted by an increased cortical response to the target word, in contrast to previous reports in normal-hearing subjects in whom speech perception ability was accounted for by the ability to suppress noise. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate a neurophysiological correlate of SiN performance, thereby revealing a richer profile of an individual's hearing performance than shown by psychoacoustic measures alone. These results also highlight important differences between sentence and word recognition measures of performance and suggest that individual differences in these measures may be underwritten by different mechanisms. Finally, the contrast with prior reports of NH listeners in the same task suggests CI-users performance may be explained by a different weighting of neural processes than NH listeners.
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- Joel I. Berger
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Oeur A, Torp WH, Arbogast KB, Master CL, Margulies SS. Altered Auditory and Visual Evoked Potentials following Single and Repeated Low-Velocity Head Rotations in 4-Week-Old Swine. Biomedicines 2023; 11:1816. [PMID: 37509456 PMCID: PMC10376588 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11071816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Auditory and visually evoked potentials (EP) have the ability to monitor cognitive changes after concussion. In the literature, decreases in EP are commonly reported; however, a subset of studies shows increased cortical activity after injury. We studied auditory and visual EP in 4-week-old female Yorkshire piglets (N = 35) divided into anesthetized sham, and animals subject to single (sRNR) and repeated (rRNR) rapid non-impact head rotations (RNR) in the sagittal direction. Two-tone auditory oddball tasks and a simple white-light visual stimulus were evaluated in piglets pre-injury, and at days 1, 4- and 7 post injury using a 32-electrode net. Traditional EP indices (N1, P2 amplitudes and latencies) were extracted, and a piglet model was used to source-localize the data to estimate brain regions related to auditory and visual processing. In comparison to each group's pre-injury baselines, auditory Eps and brain activity (but not visual activity) were decreased in sham. In contrast, sRNR had increases in N1 and P2 amplitudes from both stimuli. The rRNR group had decreased visual N1 amplitudes but faster visual P2 latencies. Auditory and visual EPs have different change trajectories after sRNR and rRNR, suggesting that injury biomechanics are an important factor to delineate neurofunctional deficits after concussion.
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- Anna Oeur
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (A.O.); (W.H.T.)
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (A.O.); (W.H.T.)
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- Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; (K.B.A.); (C.L.M.)
- Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA; (K.B.A.); (C.L.M.)
- Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Sports Medicine and Performance Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (A.O.); (W.H.T.)
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Deroche MLD, Wolfe J, Neumann S, Manning J, Towler W, Alemi R, Bien AG, Koirala N, Hanna L, Henry L, Gracco VL. Auditory evoked response to an oddball paradigm in children wearing cochlear implants. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 149:133-145. [PMID: 36965466 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.02.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Although children with cochlear implants (CI) achieve remarkable success with their device, considerable variability remains in individual outcomes. Here, we explored whether auditory evoked potentials recorded during an oddball paradigm could provide useful markers of auditory processing in this pediatric population. METHODS High-density electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded in 75 children listening to standard and odd noise stimuli: 25 had normal hearing (NH) and 50 wore a CI, divided between high language (HL) and low language (LL) abilities. Three metrics were extracted: the first negative and second positive components of the standard waveform (N1-P2 complex) close to the vertex, the mismatch negativity (MMN) around Fz and the late positive component (P3) around Pz of the difference waveform. RESULTS While children with CIs generally exhibited a well-formed N1-P2 complex, those with language delays typically lacked reliable MMN and P3 components. But many children with CIs with age-appropriate skills showed MMN and P3 responses similar to those of NH children. Moreover, larger and earlier P3 (but not MMN) was linked to better literacy skills. CONCLUSIONS Auditory evoked responses differentiated children with CIs based on their good or poor skills with language and literacy. SIGNIFICANCE This short paradigm could eventually serve as a clinical tool for tracking the developmental outcomes of implanted children.
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- Mickael L D Deroche
- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada.
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Otolaryngology, 800 Stanton L Young Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA
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- Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St., New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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- Hearts for Hearing Foundation, 11500 Portland Av., Oklahoma City, OK 73120, USA
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Voola M, Nguyen AT, Marinovic W, Rajan G, Tavora-Vieira D. Odd-even oddball task: Evaluating event-related potentials during word discrimination compared to speech-token and tone discrimination. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:983498. [PMID: 36312013 PMCID: PMC9614253 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.983498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Tonal and speech token auditory oddball tasks have been commonly used to assess auditory processing in various populations; however, tasks using non-word sounds may fail to capture the higher-level ability to interpret and discriminate stimuli based on meaning, which are critical to language comprehension. As such, this study examines how neural signals associated with discrimination and evaluation-processes (P3b) from semantic stimuli compare with those elicited by tones and speech tokens. This study comprises of two experiments, both containing thirteen adults with normal hearing in both ears (PTA ≤ 20 dB HL). Scalp electroencephalography and auditory event related potentials were recorded in free field while they completed three different oddball tasks: (1) tones, (2) speech tokens and (3) odd/even numbers. Based on the findings of experiment one, experiment two was conducted to understand if the difference in responses from the three tasks was attributable to stimulus duration or other factors. Therefore, in experiment one, stimulus duration was not controlled and in experiment two, the duration of each stimulus was modified to be the same across all three tasks (∼400 ms). In both experiments, P3b peak latency was significantly different between all three tasks. P3b amplitude was sensitive to reaction time, with tasks that had a large reaction time variability resulting in the P3b amplitude to be smeared, thereby reducing the amplitude size. The findings from this study highlight the need to consider all factors of the task before attributing any effects to any additional process, such as semantic processing and mental effort. Furthermore, it highlights the need for more cautious interpretation of P3b results in auditory oddball tasks.
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- Marcus Voola
- Division of Surgery, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- Department of Audiology, Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group, Perth, WA, Australia
- *Correspondence: Marcus Voola,
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- School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Division of Surgery, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland
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- Division of Surgery, Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- Department of Audiology, Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group, Perth, WA, Australia
- School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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Dillard LK, Wilson EM, Park SE, Fowler CG. Feasibility of Measuring the Behavioral and Electrophysiological Masking-Level Difference with Nonsense-Syllable Stimuli. J Am Acad Audiol 2022; 33:438-444. [PMID: 39265982 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1758531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND The masking-level difference (MLD) can be measured via voluntary behavioral responses (voluntary behavioral MLD [vMLD]) and/or via electrophysiological cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs; electrophysiological MLD [eMLD]). It may be possible to enhance the ecologic validity of the MLD by using nonsense-syllable speech stimuli. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of measuring both the vMLD and eMLD with speech stimuli. The study also investigates whether certain nonsense-syllable stimuli (/α/, /dα/, /di/, /tα/, /wα/) may be more useful than others in measuring both the vMLD and eMLD. RESEARCH DESIGN This is a descriptive feasibility pilot study. STUDY SAMPLE Seventeen young adults (age range 19-26 years; 15 women) with hearing thresholds of 0.25-8.0 kHz ≤ 25 dB HL, bilaterally, were recruited. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Behavioral and electrophysiological MLDs were measured with similar methods. The MLD was defined as SoNo - SπNo thresholds. Stimuli were natural-sounding nonsense syllables (/α/, /dα/, /di/, /tα/, /wα/), which were presented in 65 dB HL continuous speech-weighted noise. The eMLD was measured with the CAEP P2. Group means, standard deviations, and distributions were presented. The feasibility of using nonsense syllables was evaluated by considering whether measurable vMLDs and eMLDs were produced. Useful nonsense syllables produced vMLDs and eMLDs with (1) comparatively large mean magnitudes, (2) few negligible MLDs, and (3) distributions with adequate spread and few extreme values. RESULTS The stimuli /α/ (6.0 [1.9]) and /wα/ (7.5 [1.3]) produced vMLDs with the highest average magnitudes, with no vMLDs of 0 dB and with adequate spread. The stimulus /α/ produced eMLDs with the highest average magnitude (9.6 [2.8]), no eMLDs of 0 dB and adequate spread, whereas the stimulus /wα/ produced eMLDs with an adequate magnitude (6.9 [3.9]), no MLDs of 0 dB, but with a right-skewed distribution and an extreme value. The other stimuli produced vMLDs with low mean magnitudes and several vMLDs of 0 dB. CONCLUSION These pilot data support the feasibility of using nonsense syllables to record vMLDs and eMLDs. The stimulus /α/ appeared most useful for both behavioral and electrophysiological modalities. Differences in MLDs across modalities may be attributed to low-level audibility of some high-frequency components of the stimuli.
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- Lauren K Dillard
- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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Impact of Effortful Word Recognition on Supportive Neural Systems Measured by Alpha and Theta Power. Ear Hear 2022; 43:1549-1562. [DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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陈 建, 朱 海, 沈 佳, 马 孝, 汪 玮, 孙 进, 陈 向, 杨 军. [Correlation between Mandarin acceptable noise level and cortical auditory evoked potential in young normal-hearing listeners]. LIN CHUANG ER BI YAN HOU TOU JING WAI KE ZA ZHI = JOURNAL OF CLINICAL OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY, HEAD, AND NECK SURGERY 2022; 36:679-684. [PMID: 36036068 PMCID: PMC10127622 DOI: 10.13201/j.issn.2096-7993.2022.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Objective:To investigate the correlation between Mandarin acceptable noise level (M-ANL) and cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP), and to explore the possible mechanism leading to individual differences in M-ANL values. Methods:Thirty listeners aged 22-33 years with normal hearing were selected as the study subjects, and the M-ANL test and CAEP test were performed respectively. The most comfortable level (MCL), maximum background noise level (BNL), M-ANL and CAEP values of each subject were recorded. The latency of each wave of P1, N1, P2, N2, P300 and the amplitude of P1-N1, P2-N2, P300 in CAEP were recorded for each subject. SPSS 25.0 was used for statistical analysis to explore the correlation between the MCL value, BNL value and M-ANL values and the latency of P1, N1, P2, N2, P300 and P1-N1, P2-N2, P300 amplitudes of CAEP. Results:①The MCL value and M-ANL value were positively correlated with the P2 latency of CAEP, and the correlation coefficients were 0.404 and 0.400, respectively, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). There was no correlation with P1, N1, N2, and P300 latencies of CAEP (P>0.05). ②The MCL value, BNL value and M-ANL value had no significant difference with the CAEP wave amplitudes of P1-N1, P2-N2, and P300 (P>0.05). Conclusion:There was a certain correlation between M-ANL and CAEP in young adults with normal hearing, suggesting that the central auditory cortex might play a potential regulatory role in the background noise tolerance. Individuals with a greater background noise acceptance might have stronger central efferent mechanisms and/or less active central afferent mechanisms.
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- 建勇 陈
- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院耳鼻咽喉-头颈外科 上海交通大学医学院耳科学研究所 上海耳鼻疾病转化医学重点实验室(上海,200092)Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ear Institute; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai, 200092, China
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Tao DD, Zhang YM, Liu H, Zhang W, Xu M, Galvin JJ, Zhang D, Liu JS. The P300 Auditory Event-Related Potential May Predict Segregation of Competing Speech by Bimodal Cochlear Implant Listeners. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:888596. [PMID: 35757527 PMCID: PMC9226716 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.888596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Compared to normal-hearing (NH) listeners, cochlear implant (CI) listeners have greater difficulty segregating competing speech. Neurophysiological studies have largely investigated the neural foundations for CI listeners' speech recognition in quiet, mainly using the P300 component of event-related potentials (ERPs). P300 is closely related to cognitive processes involving auditory discrimination, selective attention, and working memory. Different from speech perception in quiet, little is known about the neurophysiological foundations for segregation of competing speech by CI listeners. In this study, ERPs were measured for a 1 vs. 2 kHz contrast in 11 Mandarin-speaking bimodal CI listeners and 11 NH listeners. Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) for a male target talker were measured in steady noise or with a male or female masker. Results showed that P300 amplitudes were significantly larger and latencies were significantly shorter for the NH than for the CI group. Similarly, SRTs were significantly better for the NH than for the CI group. Across all participants, P300 amplitude was significantly correlated with SRTs in steady noise (r = -0.65, p = 0.001) and with the competing male (r = -0.62, p = 0.002) and female maskers (r = -0.60, p = 0.003). Within the CI group, there was a significant correlation between P300 amplitude and SRTs with the male masker (r = -0.78, p = 0.005), which produced the most informational masking. The results suggest that P300 amplitude may be a clinically useful neural correlate of central auditory processing capabilities (e.g., susceptibility to informational masking) in bimodal CI patients.
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- Duo-Duo Tao
- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'An, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'An, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'An, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'An, China
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- House Institute Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Zobel BH, Freyman RL, Sanders LD. Spatial release from informational masking enhances the early cortical representation of speech sounds. AUDITORY PERCEPTION & COGNITION 2022; 5:211-237. [PMID: 36160272 PMCID: PMC9494573 DOI: 10.1080/25742442.2022.2088329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Spatial separation between competing speech streams reduces their confusion (informational masking), improving speech processing under challenging listening conditions. The precise stages of auditory processing involved in this benefit are not fully understood. This study used event-related potentials to examine the processing of target speech under conditions of informational masking and its spatial release. METHODS Participants detected noise-vocoded target speech presented with two-talker noise-vocoded masking speech. In separate conditions, the same set of targets were spatially co-located with maskers to produce informational masking and spatially separated from maskers using a perceptual manipulation to release the informational masking. RESULTS An increase in N1 and P2 amplitude, consistent with cortical auditory evoked potentials, and a later sustained positivity (P300) were observed in response to target onsets only under conditions supporting release from informational masking. At target intensities above masking threshold in both spatial conditions, N1 and P2 latencies were shorter when targets and maskers were perceptually separated. DISCUSSION These results indicate that spatial release from informational masking benefits speech representation beginning in the early stages of auditory perception. Additionally, these results suggest that the auditory evoked potential itself may be heavily dependent upon how information is perceptually organized rather than physically organized.
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- Benjamin H. Zobel
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
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- Department of Communication Disorders, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
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Fan ZT, Zhao ZH, Sharma M, Valderrama JT, Fu QJ, Liu JX, Fu X, Li H, Zhao XL, Guo XY, Fu LY, Wang NY, Zhang J. Acoustic Change Complex Evoked by Horizontal Sound Location Change in Young Adults With Normal Hearing. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:908989. [PMID: 35733932 PMCID: PMC9207405 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.908989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Acoustic change complex (ACC) is a cortical auditory-evoked potential induced by a change of continuous sound stimulation. This study aimed to explore: (1) whether the change of horizontal sound location can elicit ACC; (2) the relationship between the change of sound location and the amplitude or latency of ACC; (3) the relationship between the behavioral measure of localization, minimum audible angle (MAA), and ACC. A total of 36 normal-hearing adults participated in this study. A 180° horizontal arc-shaped bracket with a 1.2 m radius was set in a sound field where participants sat at the center. MAA was measured in a two-alternative forced-choice setting. The objective electroencephalography recording of ACC was conducted with the location changed at four sets of positions, ±45°, ±15°, ±5°, and ±2°. The test stimulus was a 125–6,000 Hz broadband noise of 1 s at 60 ± 2 dB SPL with a 2 s interval. The N1′–P2′ amplitudes, N1′ latencies, and P2′ latencies of ACC under four positions were evaluated. The influence of electrode sites and the direction of sound position change on ACC waveform was analyzed with analysis of variance. Results suggested that (1) ACC can be elicited successfully by changing the horizontal sound location position. The elicitation rate of ACC increased with the increase of location change. (2) N1′–P2′ amplitude increased and N1′ and P2′ latencies decreased as the change of sound location increased. The effects of test angles on N1′–P2′ amplitude [F(1.91,238.1) = 97.172, p < 0.001], N1′ latency [F(1.78,221.90) = 96.96, p < 0.001], and P2′ latency [F(1.87,233.11) = 79.97, p < 0.001] showed a statistical significance. (3) The direction of sound location change had no significant effect on any of the ACC peak amplitudes or latencies. (4) Sound location discrimination threshold by the ACC test (97.0% elicitation rate at ±5°) was higher than MAA threshold (2.08 ± 0.5°). The current study results show that though the ACC thresholds are higher than the behavioral thresholds on MAA task, ACC can be used as an objective method to evaluate sound localization ability. This article discusses the implications of this research for clinical practice and evaluation of localization skills, especially for children.
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- Zhi-Tong Fan
- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Juan Zhang,
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Dwyer P, Takarae Y, Zadeh I, Rivera SM, Saron CD. A Multidimensional Investigation of Sensory Processing in Autism: Parent- and Self-Report Questionnaires, Psychophysical Thresholds, and Event-Related Potentials in the Auditory and Somatosensory Modalities. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:811547. [PMID: 35620155 PMCID: PMC9127065 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.811547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Reconciling results obtained using different types of sensory measures is a challenge for autism sensory research. The present study used questionnaire, psychophysical, and neurophysiological measures to characterize autistic sensory processing in different measurement modalities. Methods Participants were 46 autistic and 21 typically developing 11- to 14-year-olds. Participants and their caregivers completed questionnaires regarding sensory experiences and behaviors. Auditory and somatosensory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded as part of a multisensory ERP task. Auditory detection, tactile static detection, and tactile spatial resolution psychophysical thresholds were measured. Results Sensory questionnaires strongly differentiated between autistic and typically developing individuals, while little evidence of group differences was observed in psychophysical thresholds. Crucially, the different types of measures (neurophysiological, psychophysical, questionnaire) appeared to be largely independent of one another. However, we unexpectedly found autistic participants with larger auditory Tb ERP amplitudes had reduced hearing acuity, even though all participants had hearing acuity in the non-clinical range. Limitations The autistic and typically developing groups were not matched on cognitive ability, although this limitation does not affect our main analyses regarding convergence of measures within autism. Conclusion Overall, based on these results, measures in different sensory modalities appear to capture distinct aspects of sensory processing in autism, with relatively limited convergence between questionnaires and laboratory-based tasks. Generally, this might reflect the reality that laboratory tasks are often carried out in controlled environments without background stimuli to compete for attention, a context which may not closely resemble the busier and more complex environments in which autistic people's atypical sensory experiences commonly occur. Sensory questionnaires and more naturalistic laboratory tasks may be better suited to explore autistic people's real-world sensory challenges. Further research is needed to replicate and investigate the drivers of the unexpected association we observed between auditory Tb ERP amplitudes and hearing acuity, which could represent an important confound for ERP researchers to consider in their studies.
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- Patrick Dwyer
- Neurocognitive Development Lab, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Neurocognitive Development Lab, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- Saron Lab, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Dillard LK, Cochran AL, Fowler CG. The electrophysiological masking level difference: effects of age and mediation of hearing and cognition. Int J Audiol 2022:1-9. [PMID: 35533671 DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2068080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Evaluate the conceptual framework that age effects on the electrophysiological binaural masking level difference (MLD) are partially mediated by age-related hearing loss and/or global cognitive function via mediation analysis. DESIGN Participants underwent a series of audiometric tests. The MLD was measured via cortical auditory evoked potentials using a speech stimulus (/ɑ/) in speech-weighted background noise. We used mediation analyses to determine the total effect, natural direct effects, and natural indirect effects, which are displayed as regression coefficients ([95% CI]; p value). STUDY SAMPLE Twenty-eight individuals aged 19-87 years (mean [SD]: 53.3 [25.2]), recruited from the community. RESULTS Older age had a significant total effect on the MLD (-0.69 [95% CI: -0.96, -0.45]; p < 0.01). Neither pure tone average (-0.11 [95% CI: -0.43, 0.24; p = 0.54] nor global cognitive function (-0.02 [95% CI: -0.13, 0.02]; p = 0.55) mediated the relationship of age and the MLD and effect sizes were small. Results were insensitive to use of alternative hearing measures or inclusion of interaction terms. CONCLUSIONS The electrophysiological MLD may be an age-sensitive measure of binaural temporal processing that is minimally affected by age-related hearing loss and global cognitive function.
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- Lauren K Dillard
- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.,Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.,Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Tsitsipa E, Rogers J, Casalotti S, Belessiotis-Richards C, Zubko O, Weil RS, Howard R, Bisby JA, Reeves S. Selective 5HT3 antagonists and sensory processing: a systematic review. Neuropsychopharmacology 2022; 47:880-890. [PMID: 35017671 PMCID: PMC8882165 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01255-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Ondansetron is a selective serotonin (5HT3) receptor antagonist that is under evaluation as an adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia, and a novel treatment for hallucinations in Parkinson's disease. Ondansetron reverses sensory gating deficits and improves visuoperceptual processing in animal models of psychosis, but it is unclear to what extent preclinical findings have been replicated in humans. We systematically reviewed human studies that evaluated the effects of ondansetron and other 5HT3 receptor antagonists on sensory gating deficits or sensory processing. Of 11 eligible studies, eight included patients with schizophrenia who were chronically stable on antipsychotic medication; five measured sensory gating using the P50 suppression response to a repeated auditory stimulus; others included tests of visuoperceptual function. Three studies in healthy participants included tests of visuoperceptual and sensorimotor function. A consistent and robust finding (five studies) was that ondansetron and tropisetron (5HT3 antagonist and α7-nicotinic receptor partial agonist) improved sensory gating in patients with schizophrenia. Tropisetron also improved sustained visual attention in non-smoking patients. There was inconsistent evidence of the effects of 5HT3 antagonists on other measures of sensory processing, but interpretation was limited by the small number of studies, methodological heterogeneity and the potential confounding effects of concomitant medication in patients. Despite these limitations, we found strong evidence that selective 5HT3 antagonists (with or without direct α7-nicotinic partial agonist effects) improved sensory gating. Future studies should investigate how this relates to potential improvement in neurocognitive symptoms in antipsychotic naive patients with prodromal or milder symptoms, in order to understand the clinical implications.
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- Eirini Tsitsipa
- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK ,grid.415717.10000 0001 2324 5535South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, BR3 3BX UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Dementia Research Centre, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR UK ,grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR UK ,grid.436283.80000 0004 0612 2631Movement Disorders Consortium, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- grid.83440.3b0000000121901201Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF UK
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T7NF, UK.
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Key AP. Searching for a "Brain Signature" of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Event-Related Potentials and the Quest for Biomarkers of Cognition. J Clin Neurophysiol 2022; 39:113-120. [PMID: 34366396 DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0000000000000727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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SUMMARY This review summarizes main applications of event-related potentials (ERPs) to the study of cognitive processes in persons with neurodevelopmental disorders, for whom traditional behavioral assessments may not be suitable. A brief introduction to the ERPs is followed by a review of empirical studies using passive ERP paradigms to address three main questions: characterizing individual differences, predicting risk for poor developmental outcomes, and documenting treatment effects in persons with neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence across studies reveals feasibility of ERP methodology in a wide range of clinical populations and notes consistently stronger brain-behavior associations involving ERP measures of higher-order cognition compared with sensory-perceptual processes. The final section describes the current limitations of ERP methodology that need to be addressed before it could be used as a clinical tool and highlights the needed steps toward translating ERPs from group-level research applications to individually interpretable clinical use.
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- Alexandra P Key
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A
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Hülsdünker T, Riedel D, Käsbauer H, Ruhnow D, Mierau A. Auditory Information Accelerates the Visuomotor Reaction Speed of Elite Badminton Players in Multisensory Environments. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:779343. [PMID: 34899221 PMCID: PMC8657147 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.779343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Although vision is the dominating sensory system in sports, many situations require multisensory integration. Faster processing of auditory information in the brain may facilitate time-critical abilities such as reaction speed however previous research was limited by generic auditory and visual stimuli that did not consider audio-visual characteristics in ecologically valid environments. This study investigated the reaction speed in response to sport-specific monosensory (visual and auditory) and multisensory (audio-visual) stimulation. Neurophysiological analyses identified the neural processes contributing to differences in reaction speed. Nineteen elite badminton players participated in this study. In a first recording phase, the sound profile and shuttle speed of smash and drop strokes were identified on a badminton court using high-speed video cameras and binaural recordings. The speed and sound characteristics were transferred into auditory and visual stimuli and presented in a lab-based experiment, where participants reacted in response to sport-specific monosensory or multisensory stimulation. Auditory signal presentation was delayed by 26 ms to account for realistic audio-visual signal interaction on the court. N1 and N2 event-related potentials as indicators of auditory and visual information perception/processing, respectively were identified using a 64-channel EEG. Despite the 26 ms delay, auditory reactions were significantly faster than visual reactions (236.6 ms vs. 287.7 ms, p < 0.001) but still slower when compared to multisensory stimulation (224.4 ms, p = 0.002). Across conditions response times to smashes were faster when compared to drops (233.2 ms, 265.9 ms, p < 0.001). Faster reactions were paralleled by a lower latency and higher amplitude of the auditory N1 and visual N2 potentials. The results emphasize the potential of auditory information to accelerate the reaction time in sport-specific multisensory situations. This highlights auditory processes as a promising target for training interventions in racquet sports.
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- Thorben Hülsdünker
- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports, Differdange, Luxembourg.,Luxembourg Health & Sport Sciences Research Institute A.s.b.l., Differdange, Luxembourg
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- Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- German Badminton Association, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports, Differdange, Luxembourg.,Luxembourg Health & Sport Sciences Research Institute A.s.b.l., Differdange, Luxembourg.,Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Beynon AJ, Luijten BM, Mylanus EAM. Intracorporeal Cortical Telemetry as a Step to Automatic Closed-Loop EEG-Based CI Fitting: A Proof of Concept. Audiol Res 2021; 11:691-705. [PMID: 34940020 PMCID: PMC8698912 DOI: 10.3390/audiolres11040062] [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: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Electrically evoked auditory potentials have been used to predict auditory thresholds in patients with a cochlear implant (CI). However, with exception of electrically evoked compound action potentials (eCAP), conventional extracorporeal EEG recording devices are still needed. Until now, built-in (intracorporeal) back-telemetry options are limited to eCAPs. Intracorporeal recording of auditory responses beyond the cochlea is still lacking. This study describes the feasibility of obtaining longer latency cortical responses by concatenating interleaved short recording time windows used for eCAP recordings. Extracochlear reference electrodes were dedicated to record cortical responses, while intracochlear electrodes were used for stimulation, enabling intracorporeal telemetry (i.e., without an EEG device) to assess higher cortical processing in CI recipients. Simultaneous extra- and intra-corporeal recordings showed that it is feasible to obtain intracorporeal slow vertex potentials with a CI similar to those obtained by conventional extracorporeal EEG recordings. Our data demonstrate a proof of concept of closed-loop intracorporeal auditory cortical response telemetry (ICT) with a cochlear implant device. This research breaks new ground for next generation CI devices to assess higher cortical neural processing based on acute or continuous EEG telemetry to enable individualized automatic and/or adaptive CI fitting with only a CI.
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- Andy J. Beynon
- Vestibular & Auditory Evoked Potential Lab, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
- Correspondence:
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- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
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- Hearing & Implants, Department Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Donders Center Medical Neuroscience, 6525 EX Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (B.M.L.); (E.A.M.M.)
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Boo SH, Jeong SW. Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential in Adults With Cochlear Implants: A Comparison With Adults With Normal Hearing. J Audiol Otol 2021; 26:43-49. [PMID: 34719150 PMCID: PMC8755439 DOI: 10.7874/jao.2021.00339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background and Objectives To examine the maturational status of the auditory cortex in adults with cochlear implants (CIs) using the latencies of the P1, N1, and P2 components of cortical auditory-evoked potentials (CAEPs). Subjects and Methods A total of 25 adults with CIs and 25 age-matched, normal-hearing control subjects participated in this study. Specifically, patients with CIs were divided into three groups depending on their age of deafness onset: Group A comprised patients with prelingual deafness who had received CI during early childhood (n=7), Group B comprised patients with early childhood-onset, progressive deafness who had received CI during childhood (n=6), and Group C comprised patients with adult-onset deafness (n=12). The P1, N1, and P2 latencies of their CAEPs were then compared between CI patients and normal-hearing subjects. Results All participants showed clear CAEP responses. P1 and N1 latencies in Group A and Group C patients were significantly longer than those in the control group. Meanwhile, Group B patients had significantly longer N1 and P2 latencies, as compared with those in the control group. Conclusions Patients with prelingual deafness and those with early-childhood onset, progressive deafness who received CI developed primary and higher-order auditory areas postoperatively when they became adults. However, their auditory cortex maturational statuses seemed to be worse than that of normal-hearing individuals. Furthermore, adult patients with late-onset deafness might experience degenerative auditory cortex changes during the auditory deprivation period between deafness onset and cochlear implantation.
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- Seong-Hyun Boo
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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Lei M, Ding Y, Meng Q. Neural Correlates of Attentional Modulation of Prepulse Inhibition. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:649566. [PMID: 34234658 PMCID: PMC8256268 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.649566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Prepulse inhibition (PPI) refers to the suppression of the startle reflex when the intense startling stimulus is shortly (20–500 ms) preceded by a weak non-startling stimulus (prepulse). Although the main neural correlates of PPI lie in the brainstem, previous research has revealed that PPI can be top-down modulated by attention. However, in the previous attend-to-prepulse PPI paradigm, only continuous prepulse but not discrete prepulse (20 ms) could elicit attentional modulation of PPI. Also, the relationship between the attentional enhancement of PPI and the changes in early cortical representations of prepulse signals is unclear. This study develops a novel attend-to-prepulse PPI task, when the discrete prepulse is set at 150 ms at a lead interval of 270 ms, and reveals that the PPI with attended prepulse is larger than the PPI with ignored prepulse. In addition, the early cortical representations (N1/P2 complex) of the prepulse show dissociation between the attended and ignored prepulse. N1 component is enhanced by directed attention, and the attentional increase of the N1 component is positively correlated with the attentional enhancement of PPI, whereas the P2 component is not affected by attentional modulation. Thus, directed attention to the prepulse can enhance both PPI and the early cortical representation of the prepulse signal (N1).
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- Ming Lei
- Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, School of Tourism Sciences, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China
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- Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Disorders, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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On the physiology of cognitive decline in type 1 diabetes. Neurophysiol Clin 2021; 51:259-265. [PMID: 33741257 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2021.02.005] [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: 12/29/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) may be associated with cognitive impairment and notably a decline in psychomotor speed, information processing speed and attention. The mechanism for this decline is uncertain. Previous studies by our group and others have demonstrated a decline in EEG-power and event-related potential amplitude in T1DM. The objectives of the present study were to explore whether 1) the association between event-related potential (N100) amplitude and psychomotor speed is different between T1DM and healthy subjects, and 2) the decline in N100 amplitude depends on duration of diabetes. METHODS Patients with T1DM (N = 204) and healthy control subjects (N = 358) were included in a cross-sectional study. Event-related brain potentials were recorded with auditory reaction tasks. Psychomotor speed was evaluated with the Grooved Pegboard test in a subset of the patients (N = 70) and the healthy control subjects (N = 89). RESULTS Patients with T1DM had a decrease in the N100 amplitude that correlated with a decline in psychomotor speed, longer duration of diabetes and increasing age. In healthy controls, the N100 amplitude did not decrease with age and the association between psychomotor speed and N100 amplitude was absent. CONCLUSION The association between psychomotor speed and N100 amplitude is likely to be a specific trait for T1DM since it was not found in healthy controls and was dependent on diabetes duration. Our findings indicate that the pathogenesis of cognitive decline in T1DM may involve a disease-related factor with a long-term influence on the N100 amplitude.
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Jarczok TA, Roebruck F, Pokorny L, Biermann L, Roessner V, Klein C, Bender S. Single-Pulse TMS to the Temporo-Occipital and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Evokes Lateralized Long Latency EEG Responses at the Stimulation Site. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:616667. [PMID: 33790732 PMCID: PMC8006291 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.616667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Introduction Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)–evoked potentials (TEPs) allow for probing cortical functions in health and pathology. However, there is uncertainty whether long-latency TMS-evoked potentials reflect functioning of the targeted cortical area. It has been suggested that components such as the TMS-evoked N100 are stereotypical and related to nonspecific sensory processes rather than transcranial effects of the changing magnetic field. In contrast, TEPs that vary according to the targeted brain region and are systematically lateralized toward the stimulated hemisphere can be considered to reflect activity in the stimulated brain region resulting from transcranial electromagnetic induction. Methods TMS with concurrent 64-channel electroencephalography (EEG) was sequentially performed in homologous areas of both hemispheres. One sample of healthy adults received TMS to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; another sample received TMS to the temporo-occipital cortex. We analyzed late negative TEP deflections corresponding to the N100 component in motor cortex stimulation. Results TEP topography varied according to the stimulation target site. Long-latency negative TEP deflections were systematically lateralized (higher in ipsilateral compared to contralateral electrodes) in electrodes over the stimulated brain region. A calculation that removes evoked components that are not systematically lateralized relative to the stimulated hemisphere revealed negative maxima located around the respective target sites. Conclusion TEPs contain long-latency negative components that are lateralized toward the stimulated hemisphere and have their topographic maxima at the respective stimulation sites. They can be differentiated from co-occurring components that are invariable across different stimulation sites (probably reflecting coactivation of peripheral sensory afferences) according to their spatiotemporal patterns. Lateralized long-latency TEP components located at the stimulation site likely reflect activity evoked in the targeted cortex region by direct transcranial effects and are therefore suitable for assessing cortical functions.
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- Tomasz A Jarczok
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Cardon G, Sharma A. Cortical Neurophysiologic Correlates of Auditory Threshold in Adults and Children With Normal Hearing and Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder. Am J Audiol 2021; 30:28-42. [PMID: 33264574 DOI: 10.1044/2020_aja-20-00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Purpose Auditory threshold estimation using the auditory brainstem response or auditory steady state response is limited in some populations (e.g., individuals with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder [ANSD] or those who have difficulty remaining still during testing and cannot tolerate general anesthetic). However, cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) can be recorded in many such patients and have been employed in threshold approximation. Thus, we studied CAEP estimates of auditory thresholds in participants with normal hearing, sensorineural hearing loss, and ANSD. Method We recorded CAEPs at varying intensity levels to speech (i.e., /ba/) and tones (i.e., 1 kHz) to estimate auditory thresholds in normal-hearing adults (n = 10) and children (n = 10) and case studies of children with sensorineural hearing loss and ANSD. Results Results showed a pattern of CAEP amplitude decrease and latency increase as stimulus intensities declined until waveform components disappeared near auditory threshold levels. Overall, CAEP thresholds were within 10 dB HL of behavioral thresholds for both stimuli. Conclusions The above findings suggest that CAEPs may be clinically useful in estimating auditory threshold in populations for whom such a method does not currently exist. Physiologic threshold estimation in difficult-to-test clinical populations could lead to earlier intervention and improved outcomes.
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- Garrett Cardon
- Department of Communication Disorders, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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De Keyser K, De Letter M, Santens P, Talsma D, Botteldooren D, Bockstael A. Neurophysiological investigation of auditory intensity dependence in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2021; 128:345-356. [PMID: 33515333 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02305-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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There is accumulating evidence for auditory dysfunctions in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Moreover, a possible relationship has been suggested between altered auditory intensity processing and the hypophonic speech characteristics in PD. Nonetheless, further insight into the neurophysiological correlates of auditory intensity processing in patients with PD is needed primarily. In the present study, high-density EEG recordings were used to investigate intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials (IDAEPs) in 14 patients with PD and 14 age- and gender-matched healthy control participants (HCs). Patients with PD were evaluated in both the on- and off-medication states. HCs were also evaluated twice. Significantly increased IDAEP of the N1/P2 was demonstrated in patients with PD evaluated in the on-medication state compared to HCs. Distinctive results were found for the N1 and P2 component. Regarding the N1 component, no differences in latency or amplitude were shown between patients with PD and HCs regardless of the medication state. In contrast, increased P2 amplitude was demonstrated in patients with PD evaluated in the on-medication state compared to the off-medication state and HCs. In addition to a dopaminergic deficiency, deficits in serotonergic neurotransmission in PD were shown based on increased IDAEP. Due to specific alterations of the N1-P2 complex, the current results suggest deficiencies in early-attentive inhibitory processing of auditory input in PD. This interpretation is consistent with the involvement of the basal ganglia and the role of dopaminergic and serotonergic neurotransmission in auditory gating.
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- Kim De Keyser
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Acoustics Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Acoustics Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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Talkington WJ, Donai J, Kadner AS, Layne ML, Forino A, Wen S, Gao S, Gray MM, Ashraf AJ, Valencia GN, Smith BD, Khoo SK, Gray SJ, Lass N, Brefczynski-Lewis JA, Engdahl S, Graham D, Frum CA, Lewis JW. Electrophysiological Evidence of Early Cortical Sensitivity to Human Conspecific Mimic Voice as a Distinct Category of Natural Sound. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2020; 63:3539-3559. [PMID: 32936717 PMCID: PMC8060013 DOI: 10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Purpose From an anthropological perspective of hominin communication, the human auditory system likely evolved to enable special sensitivity to sounds produced by the vocal tracts of human conspecifics whether attended or passively heard. While numerous electrophysiological studies have used stereotypical human-produced verbal (speech voice and singing voice) and nonverbal vocalizations to identify human voice-sensitive responses, controversy remains as to when (and where) processing of acoustic signal attributes characteristic of "human voiceness" per se initiate in the brain. Method To explore this, we used animal vocalizations and human-mimicked versions of those calls ("mimic voice") to examine late auditory evoked potential responses in humans. Results Here, we revealed an N1b component (96-120 ms poststimulus) during a nonattending listening condition showing significantly greater magnitude in response to mimics, beginning as early as primary auditory cortices, preceding the time window reported in previous studies that revealed species-specific vocalization processing initiating in the range of 147-219 ms. During a sound discrimination task, a P600 (500-700 ms poststimulus) component showed specificity for accurate discrimination of human mimic voice. Distinct acoustic signal attributes and features of the stimuli were used in a classifier model, which could distinguish most human from animal voice comparably to behavioral data-though none of these single features could adequately distinguish human voiceness. Conclusions These results provide novel ideas for algorithms used in neuromimetic hearing aids, as well as direct electrophysiological support for a neurocognitive model of natural sound processing that informs both neurodevelopmental and anthropological models regarding the establishment of auditory communication systems in humans. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12903839.
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- William J. Talkington
- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education and Human Services, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biostatistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biostatistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Biology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education and Human Services, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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- Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown
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Rygvold TW, Hatlestad-Hall C, Elvsåshagen T, Moberget T, Andersson S. Do visual and auditory stimulus-specific response modulation reflect different mechanisms of neocortical plasticity? Eur J Neurosci 2020; 53:1072-1085. [PMID: 32897598 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2020] [Revised: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Stimulus response modulation (SRM) of sensory evoked potentials represents a promising method as a non-invasive index of long-term potentiation (LTP)-like synaptic plasticity in the human sensory cortices. As of today, however, no consensus exists regarding which experimental parameters elicit the most robust SRM response. The aim of the current study was twofold; firstly, we aimed to replicate former studies demonstrating visual SRM in healthy adults. Second, we integrated visual and auditory stimuli within the same SRM recording session to assay potential cross-modal associations. Such an association between modalities would strengthen the assumption that the SRM effect reflects common mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity rather than reflecting modality-specific phenomena. A replication of previous findings showing robust potentiation of the visual evoked potential was evident, supporting the majority of previous work using similar paradigms, lending further support to the notion that high-frequent visual stimulation is a viable probe into LTP-like synaptic plasticity in the human visual cortex. The auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) did not, however, fully replicate previous work, though a significant increase of temporally later AEP components was found. In contrast to our hypothesis, there were no significant within-subject cross-modality correlations between the visual and auditory SRM. This lack of significant association might suggest that auditory and visual SRM depend on different mechanisms, and that further SRM studies on non-invasive LTP-like synaptic plasticity should focus on optimizing paradigms within the visual modality.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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D'Andrea-Penna GM, Iversen JR, Chiba AA, Khalil AK, Minces VH. One Tap at a Time: Correlating Sensorimotor Synchronization with Brain Signatures of Temporal Processing. Cereb Cortex Commun 2020; 1:tgaa036. [PMID: 33015622 PMCID: PMC7521132 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The ability to integrate our perceptions across sensory modalities and across time, to execute and coordinate movements, and to adapt to a changing environment rests on temporal processing. Timing is essential for basic daily tasks, such as walking, social interaction, speech and language comprehension, and attention. Impaired temporal processing may contribute to various disorders, from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia to Parkinson’s disease and dementia. The foundational importance of timing ability has yet to be fully understood; and popular tasks used to investigate behavioral timing ability, such as sensorimotor synchronization (SMS), engage a variety of processes in addition to the neural processing of time. The present study utilizes SMS in conjunction with a separate passive listening task that manipulates temporal expectancy while recording electroencephalographic data. Participants display a larger N1-P2 evoked potential complex to unexpected beats relative to temporally predictable beats, a differential we call the timing response index (TRI). The TRI correlates with performance on the SMS task: better synchronizers show a larger brain response to unexpected beats. The TRI, derived from the perceptually driven N1-P2 complex, disentangles the perceptual and motor components inherent in SMS and thus may serve as a neural marker of a more general temporal processing.
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- Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Neurosciences Graduate Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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De Groote E, De Keyser K, Santens P, Talsma D, Bockstael A, Botteldooren D, De Letter M. Future Perspectives on the Relevance of Auditory Markers in Prodromal Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurol 2020; 11:689. [PMID: 32765404 PMCID: PMC7378374 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Research on auditory processing in Parkinson's disease (PD) has recently made substantial progress. At present, evidence has been found for altered auditory processing in the clinical stage of PD. The auditory alterations in PD have been demonstrated with low-cost and non-invasive assessments that are already used in routine clinical practice. Since auditory alterations have been reported early in disease progression, it would be highly relevant to investigate whether auditory markers could be provided in the prodromal stage of PD. In addition, auditory alterations in early stage PD might be modulated by dopaminergic medication. Therefore, the aim of this review is (1) to summarize the literature on auditory processing in PD with a specific focus on the early disease stages, (2) to give future perspectives on which audiological and electrophysiological measurements could be useful in the prodromal stage of PD and (3) to assess the effect of dopaminergic medication on potential auditory markers in the prodromal stage of PD.
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- Evelien De Groote
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology, INTEC, Acoustics Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology, INTEC, Acoustics Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Sysoeva OV, Molholm S, Djukic A, Frey HP, Foxe JJ. Atypical processing of tones and phonemes in Rett Syndrome as biomarkers of disease progression. Transl Psychiatry 2020; 10:188. [PMID: 32522978 PMCID: PMC7287060 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-00877-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Revised: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Due to severe motor impairments and the lack of expressive language abilities seen in most patients with Rett Syndrome (RTT), it has proven extremely difficult to obtain accurate measures of auditory processing capabilities in this population. Here, we examined early auditory cortical processing of pure tones and more complex phonemes in females with Rett Syndrome (RTT), by recording high-density auditory evoked potentials (AEP), which allow for objective evaluation of the timing and severity of processing deficits along the auditory processing hierarchy. We compared AEPs of 12 females with RTT to those of 21 typically developing (TD) peers aged 4-21 years, interrogating the first four major components of the AEP (P1: 60-90 ms; N1: 100-130 ms; P2: 135-165 ms; and N2: 245-275 ms). Atypicalities were evident in RTT at the initial stage of processing. Whereas the P1 showed increased amplitude to phonemic inputs relative to tones in TD participants, this modulation by stimulus complexity was absent in RTT. Interestingly, the subsequent N1 did not differ between groups, whereas the following P2 was hugely diminished in RTT, regardless of stimulus complexity. The N2 was similarly smaller in RTT and did not differ as a function of stimulus type. The P2 effect was remarkably robust in differentiating between groups with near perfect separation between the two groups despite the wide age range of our samples. Given this robustness, along with the observation that P2 amplitude was significantly associated with RTT symptom severity, the P2 has the potential to serve as a monitoring, treatment response, or even surrogate endpoint biomarker. Compellingly, the reduction of P2 in patients with RTT mimics findings in animal models of RTT, providing a translational bridge between pre-clinical and human research.
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- Olga V. Sysoeva
- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA ,grid.4886.20000 0001 2192 9124The Laboratory of Human Higher Nervous Activity, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Rett Syndrome Center, Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center & Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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- grid.412750.50000 0004 1936 9166The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY USA ,grid.240283.f0000 0001 2152 0791The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY USA
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Migraine encompasses a broader spectrum of sensory symptoms than just headache. These "other" symptoms, eg, sensory phobias, cognitive and mood changes, allodynia, and many others indicate an altered sensitivity to sensory input which can be measured, in principle, by quantifying sensory threshold changes longitudinally over time. Photophobia, for example, can be quantified by investigating the discomfort thresholds towards the luminance of light. The aim of this review is to look into how thresholds change in patients with migraine. We performed a PubMed search up to June 2018 targeting all peer-reviewed articles evaluating the changes in threshold, sensory phobia, or sensitivity in patients with migraine. Migraineurs, in general, exhibit lower sensory thresholds compared with healthy controls. These threshold changes seem to follow the different phases during a migraine cycle. In general, thresholds reach a nadir when the headache starts (the ictal phase), rise after the headache ends, and then gradually descend towards the next attack. The sensory modality of measurement-mechanical, thermal, or nociceptive-and the location of measurement-trigeminal vs somatic dermatome-also influence the sensory threshold. Functional imaging studies provide evidence that the hypothalamo-thalamo-brainstem network may be the driving force behind the periodic threshold changes. In summary, there is evidence in the literature that migraine could be understood as a periodic sensory dysregulation originating from the brain. Nevertheless, the interstudy discrepancy is still high due to different study designs and a lack of focus on distinct migraine phases. Further well-designed and harmonized studies with an emphasis on the cyclic changes still need to be conducted.
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Pike M, Biagio-de Jager L, le Roux T, Hofmeyr LM. Short-Term Test-Retest Reliability of Electrically Evoked Cortical Auditory Potentials in Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients. Front Neurol 2020; 11:305. [PMID: 32411080 PMCID: PMC7198904 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Late latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEPs) provide objective evidence of an individual's central auditory processing abilities. Electrically evoked cortical auditory evoked potentials (eCAEPs) are a type of LLAEP that provides an objective measure of aided speech perception and auditory processing abilities in cochlear implant (CI) recipients. Aim: To determine the short-term test-retest reliability of eCAEPs in adult CI recipients. Design: An explorative, within-subject repeated measures research design was employed. Study Sample: The study sample included 12 post-lingually deafened, unilaterally implanted adult CI recipients with at least 9 months of CI experience. Method: eCAEPs representing basal, medial and apical cochlear regions were recorded in the implanted ears of each participant. Measurements were repeated 7 days after the initial assessment. Results: No significant differences between either median latencies or amplitudes at test and retest sessions (p > 0.05) were found when results for apical, medial and basal electrodes were averaged together. Mean intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) scores averaged across basal, medial and apical cochlear stimulus regions indicated that both consistency and agreement were statistically significant and ranged from moderate to good (ICC = 0.58-0.86, p < 0.05). ICC confidence intervals did demonstrate considerable individual variability in both latency and amplitudes. Conclusion: eCAEP latencies and amplitudes demonstrated moderate to good short-term test-retest reliability. However, confidence intervals indicated individual variability in measurement consistency which is likely linked to attention and listening effort required from the CI recipients.
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- Meghan Pike
- Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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BACKGROUND Sensory gating is a measure used to evaluate inhibitory deficits underlying neurological disorders. However, the effects of hearing loss (HL), thought to decrease inhibition, remain unknown on gating function. PURPOSE The goal of this study was to investigate gating performance in HL. RESEARCH DESIGN This was a prospective, cross-sectional study with independent group comparison and correlational design. STUDY SAMPLE Eleven adults (mean age/standard deviation = 47.546 ± 7.967 years) with normal hearing (NH) and 11 adults (mean age/standard deviation = 56.273 ± 13.871 years) with mild-moderate high-frequency HL. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs) were recorded in response to tonal pairs via high-density electroencephalography. The CAEP response to the second tone in the pair (S2) was compared with the response to the first tone in the pair (S1) within groups. Amplitude gating indices were compared between groups and correlated with auditory behavioral measures. Current density reconstructions were performed to estimate cortical gating generators. RESULTS Amplitude gating indices were decreased and correlated with elevated auditory thresholds. Gating generators in temporal, frontal, and prefrontal regions were localized in the NH group, while HL gating was localized in mainly temporal and parietal areas. CONCLUSIONS Reduced inhibition may be associated with compensatory cortical gating networks in HL and should be considered when utilizing gating in clinical populations.
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- Julia Campbell
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.,Central Sensory Processes Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.,Central Sensory Processes Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.,Central Sensory Processes Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.,Central Sensory Processes Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Vanheusden FJ, Kegler M, Ireland K, Georga C, Simpson DM, Reichenbach T, Bell SL. Hearing Aids Do Not Alter Cortical Entrainment to Speech at Audible Levels in Mild-to-Moderately Hearing-Impaired Subjects. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:109. [PMID: 32317951 PMCID: PMC7147120 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cortical entrainment to speech correlates with speech intelligibility and attention to a speech stream in noisy environments. However, there is a lack of data on whether cortical entrainment can help in evaluating hearing aid fittings for subjects with mild to moderate hearing loss. One particular problem that may arise is that hearing aids may alter the speech stimulus during (pre-)processing steps, which might alter cortical entrainment to the speech. Here, the effect of hearing aid processing on cortical entrainment to running speech in hearing impaired subjects was investigated. METHODOLOGY Seventeen native English-speaking subjects with mild-to-moderate hearing loss participated in the study. Hearing function and hearing aid fitting were evaluated using standard clinical procedures. Participants then listened to a 25-min audiobook under aided and unaided conditions at 70 dBA sound pressure level (SPL) in quiet conditions. EEG data were collected using a 32-channel system. Cortical entrainment to speech was evaluated using decoders reconstructing the speech envelope from the EEG data. Null decoders, obtained from EEG and the time-reversed speech envelope, were used to assess the chance level reconstructions. Entrainment in the delta- (1-4 Hz) and theta- (4-8 Hz) band, as well as wideband (1-20 Hz) EEG data was investigated. RESULTS Significant cortical responses could be detected for all but one subject in all three frequency bands under both aided and unaided conditions. However, no significant differences could be found between the two conditions in the number of responses detected, nor in the strength of cortical entrainment. The results show that the relatively small change in speech input provided by the hearing aid was not sufficient to elicit a detectable change in cortical entrainment. CONCLUSION For subjects with mild to moderate hearing loss, cortical entrainment to speech in quiet at an audible level is not affected by hearing aids. These results clear the pathway for exploring the potential to use cortical entrainment to running speech for evaluating hearing aid fitting at lower speech intensities (which could be inaudible when unaided), or using speech in noise conditions.
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- Frederique J. Vanheusden
- Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Bioengineering and Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- Audiology Department, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Audiology Department, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Bioengineering and Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Fitzhugh MC, Hemesath A, Schaefer SY, Baxter LC, Rogalsky C. Functional Connectivity of Heschl's Gyrus Associated With Age-Related Hearing Loss: A Resting-State fMRI Study. Front Psychol 2019; 10:2485. [PMID: 31780994 PMCID: PMC6856672 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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A large proportion of older adults experience hearing loss. Yet, the impact of hearing loss on the aging brain, particularly on large-scale brain networks that support cognition and language, is relatively unknown. We used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify hearing loss-related changes in the functional connectivity of primary auditory cortex to determine if these changes are distinct from age and cognitive measures known to decline with age (e.g., working memory and processing speed). We assessed the functional connectivity of Heschl's gyrus in 31 older adults (60-80 years) who expressed a range of hearing abilities from normal hearing to a moderate hearing loss. Our results revealed that both left and right Heschl's gyri were significantly connected to regions within auditory, sensorimotor, and visual cortices, as well as to regions within the cingulo-opercular network known to support attention. Participant age, working memory, and processing speed did not significantly correlate with any connectivity measures once variance due to hearing loss was removed. However, hearing loss was associated with increased connectivity between right Heschl's gyrus and the dorsal anterior cingulate in the cingulo-opercular network even once variance due to age, working memory, and processing speed was removed. This greater connectivity was not driven by high frequency hearing loss, but rather by hearing loss measured in the 0.5-2 kHz range, particularly in the left ear. We conclude that hearing loss-related differences in functional connectivity in older adults are distinct from other aging-related differences and provide insight into a possible neural mechanism of compensation for hearing loss in older adults.
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- Megan C. Fitzhugh
- College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
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- College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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Auditory gating in adults with dyslexia: An ERP account of diminished rapid neural adaptation. Clin Neurophysiol 2019; 130:2182-2192. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Zhang C, Tao R, Zhao H. Auditory spatial attention modulates the unmasking effect of perceptual separation in a "cocktail party" environment. Neuropsychologia 2019; 124:108-116. [PMID: 30659864 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The perceptual separation between a signal speech and a competing speech (masker), induced by the precedence effect, plays an important role in releasing the signal speech from the masker, especially in a reverberant environment. The perceptual-separation-induced unmasking effect has been suggested to involve multiple cognitive processes, such as selective attention. However, whether listeners' spatial attention modulate the perceptual-separation-induced unmasking effect is not clear. The present study investigated how perceptual separation and auditory spatial attention interact with each other to facilitate speech perception under a simulated noisy and reverberant environment by analyzing the cortical auditory evoked potentials to the signal speech. The results showed that the N1 wave was significantly enhanced by perceptual separation between the signal and masker regardless of whether the participants' spatial attention was directed to the signal or not. However, the P2 wave was significantly enhanced by perceptual separation only when the participants attended to the signal speech. The results indicate that the perceptual-separation-induced facilitation of P2 needs more attentional resource than that of N1. The results also showed that the signal speech caused an enhanced N1 in the contralateral hemisphere regardless of whether participants' attention was directed to the signal or not. In contrast, the signal speech caused an enhanced P2 in the contralateral hemisphere only when the participant attended to the signal. The results indicate that the hemispheric distribution of N1 is mainly affected by the perceptual features of the acoustic stimuli, while that of P2 is affected by the listeners' attentional status.
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- Changxin Zhang
- Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
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- Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Rosburg T. Filtering and other methodological issues of auditory N100 gating studies. Clin Neurophysiol 2019; 130:197-198. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Liu D, Hu J, Dong R, Chen J, Musacchia G, Wang S. Effects of Inter-Stimulus Interval on Speech-Evoked Frequency-Following Response in Elderly Adults. Front Aging Neurosci 2018; 10:357. [PMID: 30467474 PMCID: PMC6236020 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background: The speech-evoked frequency following response (FFR) has shown to be useful in assessing complex auditory processing abilities and in different age groups. While many aspects of FFR have been studied extensively, the effect of timing, as measured by inter-stimulus-interval (ISI), especially in the older adult population, has yet to be thoroughly investigated. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different ISIs on speech evoked FFR in older and younger adults who speak a tonal language, and to investigate whether the older adults' FFR were more susceptible to the change in ISI. Materials and Methods: Twenty-two normal hearing participants were recruited in our study, including 11 young adult participants and 11 elderly participants. An Intelligent Hearing Systems Smart EP evoke potential system was used to record the FFR in four ISI conditions (40, 80, 120 and 160 ms). A recorded natural speech token with a falling tone /yi/ was used as the stimulus. Two indices, stimulus-to-response correlation coefficient and pitch strength, were used to quantify the FFR responses. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the differences in different age groups and different ISI conditions. Results: There was no significant difference in stimulus-to-response correlation coefficient and pitch strength among the different ISI conditions, in either age groups. Older adults appeared to have weaker FFR for all ISI conditions when compared to their younger adult counterparts. Conclusion: Shorter ISIs did not result in worse FFRs from older adults or younger adults. For speech-evoked FFR using a recorded natural speech token that is 250 ms in length, an ISI of as short as 40 ms appeared to be sufficient and effective to record FFR for elderly adults.
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- Dongxin Liu
- Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Audiology, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Audiology, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Todd J, Cornwell R. The importance of precision to updating models of the sensory environment. Biol Psychol 2018; 139:8-16. [PMID: 30292784 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The existence and updating of "sensory beliefs" or internal models can be studied using auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) when there is some form of predictable pattern in sound. Internal models are proposed to enable predictions about the most likely next sound-activation-state leading to small AEPs to standard sounds matching model predictions, and larger AEPs to sound that deviate. Internal models are precision-weighted with the standard-deviant difference being largest when precision is high (variability is low). Here we expose how order-effects determine whether a change in variability impacts model-precision estimates. Thirty participants heard 3000 t (30 ms standard p = 0.90 and 60 ms deviant p = 0.10) that either moved from a more precise stimulus onset asymmetry (n = 15, first 1000 tones 500 ms ± 10 ms) to a more variable one (n = 15, subsequent 2000 tones 500 ms ± 200 ms) or from variable (first 1000 t) to more precise (subsequent 2000 t). AEPs were equivalent between groups for the first 1000 tones but differed dramatically in the face of timing changes. Where timing precision decreased, the standard-deviant difference was impervious to the change but where precision increased, the standard-deviant difference increased dramatically after the timing change signalling a transient increase in model precision that subsided over the final 1000 tones. The results support contemporary models proposing that updates to an active internal model will be a function of the quality of the evidence upon which it has been built and the information value of subsequent errors in improving the predictive success of the active model.
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- Juanita Todd
- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308 Australia.
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- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308 Australia
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Didoné DD, Oliveira LS, Sleifer P, Riesgo RDS, Garcia MV, Almeida KD, Durante AS. Efeito do estado atencional na detecção automática das respostas auditivas corticais em neonatos. AUDIOLOGY: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 2018. [DOI: 10.1590/2317-6431-2018-1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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RESUMO Objetivo O objetivo desse estudo foi comparar a latência e amplitude do potencial evocado auditivo cortical P1i entre neonatos em estado de alerta e durante o sono leve. Métodos Vinte e cinco neonatos com emissões otoacústicas evocadas transientes presentes foram testados, por meio do potencial evocado auditivo cortical (PEAC), sendo dez em estado de alerta e 15 durante o sono leve. Para pesquisa dos potenciais corticais, utilizou-se o equipamento Hearlab System, de um canal, no módulo Cortical Tone Evaluation (CTE). O potencial P1i foi pesquisado de forma monoaural, na intensidade de 80 dBnNA, para as frequências de 500, 1000, 2000 e 4000Hz. A detecção do P1i foi feita de maneira automática pelo equipamento. A marcação da latência e amplitude foi realizada por três juízes. Resultados Não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre os dois grupos de neonatos para os valores de amplitude e latência, nas quatro frequências testadas. Conclusão Não houve influência do estado comportamental dos neonatos na avaliação do potencial cortical P1i.
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- Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brasil
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