Article
Psychology, Biological
Lachlan Hall, Amy Dawel, Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Conal Monaghan, Kevin Berryman, Bradley N. Jack
Summary: This study investigated the statistical power of ERP studies based on N1, Tb, and P2 components using Monte Carlo simulations. The results showed that increasing the number of trials, number of participants, and effect magnitude can enhance the statistical power. It was also found that within-subject designs require fewer trials and participants to achieve the same statistical power than between-subject designs.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Melissa A. Papesh, Alyssa A. Stefl, Frederick J. Gallun, Curtis J. Billings
Summary: The study aimed to investigate auditory performance and cognitive responses in blast-exposed Veterans, revealing that they reported more auditory difficulties but did not necessarily perform worse in behavioral tests. The use of complex stimuli and challenging signal contrasts did not improve the detection ability of these differences.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Thijs van Laarhoven, Jeroen J. Stekelenburg, Jean Vroomen
Summary: This study investigated the impact of temporal and identity predictability on the suppression of auditory N1 by visual anticipatory motion. The results showed that N1 suppression was largest when the video reliably predicted both the timing and identity of the sound, indicating that both timing and identity predictions are essential elements for predictive coding in audition.
Article
Psychiatry
Prune Mazer, Ines Macedo, Tiago O. Paiva, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Rita Pasion, Fernando Barbosa, Pedro Almeida, Celeste Silveira, Cassilda Cunha-Reis, Joao Marques-Teixeira
Summary: The study used a roving paradigm to assess the modulation and habituation of N1 and P2 to simple and complex sounds in first-episode schizophrenia patients and healthy participants. The results showed that patients exhibited abnormal habituation to bird songs, while showing preserved auditory processing of human voices.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Anusha Mohan, Alison Luckey, Nathan Weisz, Sven Vanneste
Summary: Tinnitus may result from predictive coding issues, with patients potentially being more sensitive to auditory stimuli unrelated to tinnitus characteristics. In individuals with minimal or no hearing loss, a more top-down subtype of tinnitus driven by maladaptive changes in the auditory predictive coding network may exist. Empirical evidence suggests the presence of maladaptive changes in hierarchical predictive coding network in a subgroup of tinnitus patients with minimal to no hearing loss.
Article
Neurosciences
Brigitta Toth, Peter Kristof Velosy, Petra Kovacs, Gabor Peter Haden, Silvia Polver, Istvan Sziller, Istvan Winkler
Summary: The ability of the auditory system to rapidly detect new events in a dynamic environment is crucial for survival. This study found that newborns have an innate capacity to detect auditory sequential regularities and can quickly form representations for regular features of the sound input.
Article
Acoustics
N. E. Naal-Ruiz, L. M. Alonso-Valerdi, D. I. Ibarra-Zarate
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the neurophysiological and psychoacoustical responses after a month of daily exposure to pink noise sounds with modified frequency responses of different headphone models. The results indicated a greater area under the curve of event-related potentials (ERPs) in participants assigned to the headphone model group that negligibly modified the frequency content of pink noise, suggesting a broader cognitive process and significant neuroplasticity caused by constant auditory stimulation.
Article
Neurosciences
Girija Kadlaskar, Sophia Bergmann, Rebecca McNally Keehn, Amanda Seidl, Brandon Keehn
Summary: This study found differences in early perceptual processing of auditory stimuli in children with ASD, while no differences were observed in tactile stimuli. However, there were no differences in response to tactile and auditory stimuli in later attentional components between ASD and TD groups. These results suggest that differences in auditory responsivity patterns in children with ASD may be related to perceptual factors.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biology
Therese Lennert, Soheila Samiee, Sylvain Baillet
Summary: The study by Lennert et al. shows that individual recalibration behavior in response to audiovisual asynchrony is related to fast oscillations in the auditory cortex, shedding light on how brain oscillations contribute to forming unified percepts across senses. This highlights the role of cross-frequency coupled oscillations in integrating auditory and visual signals in the brain.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kyuto Uno, Kazuhiko Yokosawa
Summary: This study investigates how cross-modal correspondence affects the recalibration of audiovisual integration. The results indicate that audiovisual signals congruent with cross-modal correspondence are selectively recalibrated.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Christina V. Schmitter, Konstantin Kufer, Olaf Steinstraeter, Jens Sommer, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube
Summary: Through the study of behavioral and neural correlates of temporal recalibration, it was found that the hippocampus plays an important role in encoding and retrieving temporal stimulus associations, the activation in the cerebellum may reflect the retention of multiple representations of temporal stimulus associations, and sensorimotor predictions modulate recalibration-related processes, explaining the perceptual advantage of sensorimotor versus intersensory temporal recalibration.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Laura Manning Franke, Robert A. Perera, Amma A. Aygemang, Craig A. Marquardt, Collin Teich, Scott R. Sponheim, Connie C. Duncan, William C. Walker
Summary: The study revealed differences in auditory brain function between participants with positive and negative mTBI history, especially for repetitive injuries. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and hearing loss are implicated in the diminished brain responses caused by mTBI. These findings suggest that auditory ERPs could be a target for studying dementia risk in individuals with mid-life neurologic vulnerability conferred by mTBI.
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Francisco Velasco-Alvarez, Alvaro Fernandez-Rodriguez, M. Teresa Medina-Julia, Ricardo Ron-Angevin
Summary: The study demonstrates that using natural sounds in auditory brain-computer interfaces improves user focus on target stimuli while ignoring non-target stimuli, resulting in improved classification results and user experience. Additionally, the experiment suggests that incorporating natural speech as background can enhance stream segregation in auditory BCIs, with significant improvements in performance metrics and user preference. Further research in this area could explore the combination of natural speech with easily perceived yet non-distracting stimuli for improved outcomes.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yoshimori Sugano
Summary: This experimental research used signal detection theory to investigate the modulation of sense of agency by temporal recalibration, finding that the shift in decision criterion rather than perceptual sensitivity of agency is responsible for the modulation of sense of agency by temporal recalibration.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Maria Bader, Erich Schroger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: The study using event-related potentials found that the auditory system can extract implicit regularities even in the presence of acoustic distortions, although distortions led to decreased amplitude of mismatch negativity and P3a. Wrong-pitch distortions had a larger impact on P3a amplitude compared to white-noise distortions, likely due to interference with relevant pattern information.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Maria V. Stuckenberg, Erich Schroeger, Andreas Widmann
Summary: Research has found that visual cues misleading auditory expectations can trigger incongruency response in auditory event-related brain potentials, possibly due to a mismatch between auditory sensory expectations activated by visual predictive information and actual sensory input. The incongruency effect is more likely to occur with asynchronous presentation of visual-auditory combinations, suggesting a potential bimodal feature mismatch when violation of the visual-auditory relationship occurs.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nina Coy, Maria Bader, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: The study revealed that participants could use relative pitch to detect new melodic patterns even in the absence of absolute pitch sensitivity. Event-related potentials (ERPs) showed the importance of relative pitch in information extraction, with an increase in behavioral reaction time. The data indicated that ERP indicators MMN and P3a were elicited even with only relative pitch information available, suggesting an impact on higher-level processing.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Tjerk T. Dercksen, Maria V. Stuckenberg, Erich Schroger, Nicole Wetzel, Andreas Widmann
Summary: This study investigated the influence of stimulus repetition on the elicitation of the prediction error signal and found that higher-level associations applied in a top-down manner are involved in the generation of the prediction error signal, independent from local contingencies.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Betina Korka, Erich Schroeger, Andreas Widmann
Summary: The study demonstrates that action-effect predictions can enhance stochastic regularity-based predictions and activate higher-order deviance detection processes, expanding previous understandings of the role of action predictions at sensory levels.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Maria Bader, Erich Schroger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: The study using event-related potentials found that the auditory system can extract implicit regularities even in the presence of acoustic distortions, although distortions led to decreased amplitude of mismatch negativity and P3a. Wrong-pitch distortions had a larger impact on P3a amplitude compared to white-noise distortions, likely due to interference with relevant pattern information.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Betina Korka, Andreas Widmann, Florian Waszak, Alvaro Darriba, Erich Schroeger
Summary: According to the ideomotor theory, action can produce desired sensory outcomes, with action intentions resulting in reliable top-down predictions that modulate auditory brain responses. The extended auditory event representation system explains the effects of action intention on auditory processing and allows for studying the differences and commonalities with regularity-based predictions, guiding future research on action and perception.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alessandro Tavano, Burkhard Maess, David Poeppel, Erich Schroeger
Summary: The study suggests that both spectral predictability and temporal regularity play a role in entrainment, governed by neural phase control.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Neurosciences
Philip Ruthig, Marc Schoenwiesner
Summary: This review summarizes recent findings on the lateralization of communicative sound processing in the auditory cortex (AC) of humans, non-human primates, and rodents. It highlights the similarities and differences in the functional and anatomical characteristics of AC in these species. The integration of results from different species is essential to understand the neural circuitry of vocal communication processing, but challenges arise due to the difficulty of comparing data from different species and methods. Recent advances may enable better integration of methods across species.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Nadia Paraskevoudi, Iria SanMiguel
Summary: Actions modulate sensory processing by attenuating responses to self-generated inputs, leading to poorer memory for concurrently occurring but unpredictable sounds. Sensory attenuation and neuromodulatory processes coexist during actions.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: It is remarkable how human listeners can perceive periodicity in noise, which lacks obvious physical cues. Previous research suggested that listeners rely on short temporally local and idiosyncratic features to perceptually segment periodic noise sequences. The present study aimed to examine the consistency of perceptual segmentation within and between listeners. Results showed that the consistency was stronger for interleaved periodic sequences, likely due to reduced temporal jitter. Additionally, the finding that certain noise sequences were segmented consistently across listeners challenges the assumption that the features are necessarily idiosyncratic.
Article
Neurosciences
Hanna Ringer, Erich Schroeger, Sabine Grimm
Summary: Perceptual learning is a powerful mechanism for enhancing perceptual abilities and forming memory representations of unfamiliar sounds. The current study examined how the learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by pattern repetition regularity and listener attention. The findings demonstrate that memory-related effects are observed even during the first occurrence of patterns, especially when listeners pay attention to the sounds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Stefanie Sturm, Jordi Costa-Faidella, Iria SanMiguel
Summary: Active engagement improves learning and memory, and self-generated stimuli are processed differently from externally generated stimuli. This study investigates the effects of active control over auditory stimuli on associative learning and the underlying neural mechanisms. The results show that active learning leads to faster progress and attenuated P3a component in ERP responses. Individual differences in sensory processing predict the strength of memory benefits.
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Stefanie Sturm, Iria SanMiguel
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Biological
Marta Font-Alaminos, Nadia Paraskevoudi, Jordi Costa-Faidella, Iria SanMiguel
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Thomas Jacobsen, Pamela Baess, Anja Roye, Istvan Winkler, Erich Schroeger, Janos Horvath
Summary: The study found that lexical meaning has a modulating effect on auditory deviance detection, providing processing advantages for denotationally meaningful items, while word frequency did not have an effect. This suggests that even apparently low-level functions like auditory deviance detection utilize information from the mental lexicon for task-irrelevant stimuli.
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Maxime Montembeault, Diego L. Lorca-Puls, Abigail E. Licata, Rian Bogley, Sabrina Erlhoff, Buddhika Ratnasiri, Zoe Ezzes, Giovanni Battistella, Elena Tsoy, Christa Watson Pereira, Jessica Deleon, Boon Lead Tee, Maya L. Henry, Zachary A. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Katherine L. Possin, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Summary: This study investigates the potential differences in processing speed and neural correlates among the three variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The findings reveal that non-verbal cognitive abilities, such as processing speed, are significantly impacted in nfvPPA and lvPPA patients compared to healthy controls and svPPA patients. Neuroimaging results confirm the importance of fronto-parietal regions associated with processing speed and executive control.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Holger Wiese, Tsvetomila Popova, Maya Schipper, Deni Zakriev, Mike Burton, Andrew W. Young
Summary: Previous experiments have shown that brief exposure to unfamiliar individuals leads to the formation of new facial representations, which undergo changes and consolidation within the first day after learning.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Astrid Prochnow, Xianzhen Zhou, Foroogh Ghorbani, Paul Wendiggensen, Veit Roessner, Bernhard Hommel, Christian Beste
Summary: Individuals organize events in their environment by partitioning them into discrete units. This study reveals that the neural activity in the brain plays a critical role in this process, reflecting the key elements of event segmentation.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zhenzhen Huo, Zhiyi Chen, Rong Zhang, Junye Xu, Tingyong Feng
Summary: Procrastination has adverse effects on personal growth and social development. Reward sensitivity is positively correlated with procrastination. This study used VBM and RSFC analyses to investigate the neural substrates underlying the association between reward sensitivity and procrastination. The results showed that the functional connectivity of the right parahippocampal gyrus-precuneus mediated the relationship between reward sensitivity and procrastination.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Stefano Lasaponara, Gabriele Scozia, Silvana Lozito, Mario Pinto, David Conversi, Marco Costanzi, Tim Vriens, Massimo Silvetti, Fabrizio Doricchi
Summary: Cholinergic (Ach), Noradrenergic (NE), and Dopaminergic (DA) pathways are crucial in regulating spatial attention and determining inter-individual differences in temperamental traits. This study found that temperamental traits predict individual differences in the ability to orient spatial attention based on the probabilistic association between cues and targets. These findings highlight the importance of considering temperamental and personality traits in social and professional environments where attention control is essential.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Darren J. Yeo, Courtney Pollack, Benjamin N. Conrad, Gavin R. Price
Summary: The processing of numerals as visual objects is supported by an Inferior Temporal Numeral Area (ITNA) in the bilateral inferior temporal gyri (ITG). Extant findings suggest some degree of hemispheric asymmetry in how the bilateral ITNAs process numerals. The study found that digit sensitivity did not differ between ITNAs, and digit sensitivity in both left and right ITNAs was associated with calculation skills. The study also revealed a right lateralization in engagement in alphanumeric categorization, and that the right ITNA showed greater discriminability between digits and letters.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Beste Gulsuna, Abuzer Gungor, Alp O. Borcer, Ugur Ture
Summary: The fiber dissection technique has been used to study the internal structures of the brain, with less focus on white matter. The sagittal stratum, a white matter structure, has not received enough attention and has been a subject of controversy. Recent studies suggest potential functions of the sagittal stratum, emphasizing the importance of understanding this structure accurately.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nora Geiser, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Dario Cazzoli, Tobias Nef, Thomas Nyffeler
Summary: This study compared the effects of auditory and visual motion stimulation on spatial neglect and found that both interventions were equally effective in improving neglect. Multimodal motion stimulation also improved neglect, but did not show greater improvement than unimodal auditory or visual motion stimulation alone.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anna E. Hughes, Anna Nowakowska, Alasdair D. F. Clarke
Summary: This study examines the relationship between search slopes and search efficiency in visual search tasks, introduces the Target Contrast Signal (TCS) Theory, and extends it to a Bayesian multi-level framework. The findings demonstrate that TCS can predict data well, but distinguishing between contrast combination models proves to be difficult.