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Martijn van Ackooij, Jacob M. Paul, Wietske van der Zwaag, Nathan van der Stoep, Ben M. Harvey
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Nathan C. Higgins, Ambar G. Monjaras, Breanne D. Yerkes, David F. Little, Jessica E. Nave-Blodgett, Mounya Elhilali, Joel S. Snyder
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Claude Alain, Ricky Chow, Jing Lu, Rahel Rabi, Vivek V. Sharma, Dawei Shen, Nicole D. Anderson, Malcolm Binns, Lynn Hasher, Dezhong Yao, Morris Freedman
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Jan Homann, Sue Ann Koay, Kevin S. Chen, David W. Tank, Michael J. Berry
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Antje Peters, Laura Brockhoff, Maximilian Bruchmann, Torge Dellert, Robert Moeck, Insa Schlossmacher, Thomas Straube
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
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Guodan Liu, Jixin Zou, Meijie Qiao, Hui Zhu, Yang Yang, Hongyu Guan, Songtao Hu
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Kerem Ersin, Ogulcan Gundogdu, Sultan Nur Kaya, Dilsad Aykiri, M. Bulent Serbetcioglu
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FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
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Zbynek Bures, Kateryna Pysanenko, Josef Syka
Summary: This study examined hemispheric differences in the processing of temporally structured auditory stimuli. The right auditory cortex showed a higher ability to synchronize with the stimulus, higher reproducibility of responses, and a higher proportion of direction-selective units compared to the left auditory cortex. However, the left auditory cortex had higher relative response magnitudes in the modulation transfer functions. These differences were dependent on the type of stimulus and varied among individuals.
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Eunice N. Simoes, Ana L. Novais Carvalho, Sergio L. Schmidt
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Tomoyo Isoguchi Shiramatsu, Kanato Mori, Kotaro Ishizu, Hirokazu Takahashi
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FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
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Amber M. Kline, Destinee A. Aponte, Hiroyuki K. Kato
Summary: Animals sense sounds through neural pathways that reach higher-order cortices to extract complex acoustic features. This study used two-photon calcium imaging and two-tone stimuli to compare spectrotemporal integration between primary and secondary auditory cortices in mice. The results showed distinct roles of the two cortices in encoding complex auditory features, potentially suggesting parallel information extraction between these regions.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Huanpeng Ye, Zhen Fan, Guohong Chai, Guangye Li, Zixuan Wei, Jie Hu, Xinjun Sheng, Liang Chen, Xiangyang Zhu
Summary: This study investigated neural response to names using invasive SEEG recordings, finding that high gamma band had the best decoding performance for names. Specific brain regions played a crucial role in processing self-related information.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
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Huanqing Zhang, Jun Xie, Yi Xiao, Guiling Cui, Xinyu Zhu, Guanghua Xu, Qing Tao, Yuzhe Yang, Zhiyuan Ren, Min Li
Summary: This study analyzed the effects of steady-state auditory-visual motion stimuli on EEG and found that synchronous and asynchronous stimuli can enhance brain responses and activate areas involved in auditory and visual integration. Moreover, asynchronous stimuli activated the Anterior Cingulate region, indicating its involvement in conflicting processing of steady-state auditory-visual motion information.
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Zi H. Su, Salil Patel, Oliver Bredemeyer, James J. FitzGerald, Chrystalina A. Antoniades
Summary: Cognitive deficits are common in Parkinson's disease, and this study investigates the differences in time perception between patients with PD and healthy controls. The findings suggest that PD patients have impaired sensitivity in discriminating durations of both visual and auditory stimuli. This is the largest study to date in terms of participant numbers and the only one to measure perception differences using both auditory and visual stimuli.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
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