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Chemistry, Analytical
Manorot Borirakarawin, Yunyong Punsawad
Summary: In this study, an auditory stimulus pattern was developed for improving control and communication in quadriplegia with visual impairment, utilizing EEG channels to observe ERP responses and classification efficiency. The proposed auditory stimulus pattern showed higher accuracy, and multi-loudspeaker patterns provided increased accuracy.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Peirun Song, Yuying Zhai, Xiongjie Yu
Summary: Rapid detection of novel stimuli is crucial for survival, and stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is an important mechanism underlying this. This review discusses recent advances in SSA research, covering the frequency dependence and origin of SSA in the auditory cortex, spatial SSA and its comparison to frequency SSA, feature integration in SSA and its implications in novelty detection, and the functional significance and physiological mechanism of SSA. Despite extensive investigation, there are limited cognitive insights from SSA studies, suggesting a need for future work to bridge these gaps.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Tohar S. Yarden, Adi Mizrahi, Israel Nelken
Summary: This study investigated the role of inhibition in auditory cortex in stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA). Using two-photon targeted cell-attached recordings and optogenetic manipulations, the researchers found that parvalbumin (PV), somatostatin (SST), and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) expressing interneurons showed early-onset SSA. Surprisingly, inhibiting PV neurons enhanced responses to deviant stimuli more than to standard stimuli, while inhibiting VIP neurons decreased responses to standard stimuli but not to deviant stimuli.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Robert J. Barry, Frances M. De Blasio, Jacqueline A. Rushby, Brett MacDonald, Jack S. Fogarty, Adele E. Cave
Summary: This study explores the effects of auditory stimulus intensity on ERP components. Two experiments were conducted, and it was found that the effects varied depending on the paradigm used.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Saleh Fayaz, Mohammad Amin J. Fakharian, Ali Ghazizadeh
Summary: This study analyzes neural response variability across multiple brain areas and introduces a method for parsing variability components. The results show that event-related quench of variability is not a brain-wide phenomenon and that certain cortical and subcortical regions exhibit enhanced post-stimulus spiking irregularity. The study also proposes possible presynaptic mechanisms underlying the observed heterogeneities in spiking variability across the brain.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Tricia X. F. Seow, Tobias U. Hauser
Summary: This study evaluated the efficacy of commonly used sound stimuli in eliciting affective responses online and found good reliability in web-based experiments compared to lab studies. Additionally, it identified the most aversive sounds among previously used unpleasant stimuli, demonstrating the potential for developing new auditory paradigms for affective online experiments.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Guoqiang Jia, Xinjian Li, Chunhua Liu, Jufang He, Lixia Gao
Summary: This study on anesthetized guinea pigs revealed that the neural activity of the TRN strongly modulates the SSA of the MGB, with shorter interstimulus intervals resulting in stronger SSA. The long-lasting hyperpolarization of MGB neurons decreased after the burst firing of the TRN was inactivated, leading to diminished SSA of these neurons. This suggests an alternative circuit mechanism underlying the SSA of the auditory thalamus.
ACS CHEMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Nathan Tardiff, Lalitta Suriya-Arunroj, Yale E. Cohen, Joshua Gold
Summary: Different types of expectations, such as those based on learned rules or recent stimulus regularities, can bias auditory perception in diverse ways. These biases depend on the source of the expectations and involve different computational and physiological mechanisms. Rule-based cues consistently bias choices and response times, while stimulus-based cues have a complex combination of effects on choices and response times.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
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
Neurosciences
Deena Herman, Stevenson Baker, Ricky Chow, Jaime Cazes, Claude Alain, R. Shayna Rosenbaum
Summary: This study examined the extent to which incidental encoding of auditory stimuli influences subsequent episodic memory for the same stimuli. By correlating the mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential generated by auditory change detection, with participants' ability to discriminate the stimuli, the researchers found a significant correlation between MMN amplitude and lure discrimination. The findings indicate that our ability to discriminate sensory inputs at encoding translates into precision in memory for those inputs.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Lara J. Pierce, Erin Carmody Tague, Charles A. Nelson
Summary: High levels of early life stress can impact long-term learning, behavior, and health, especially in the language domain. Maternal stress, even when adjusted for socioeconomic variables, may be associated with how children process statistical properties of auditory input, which plays a role in language acquisition. This suggests a complex relationship between socioeconomic status, neurocognitive mechanisms, and language learning.
Article
Biology
David Eckert, Christoph Reichert, Christian G. Bien, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Robert T. Knight, Leon Y. Deouell, Stefan Durschmid
Summary: Electrocorticographic recordings show that stimulus response and repetition suppression are distinct in terms of time, space, and frequency. This challenges the current understanding that repetition suppression is a suppression of the initial neural stimulus response. The study suggests that they are functionally linked but have minimal spatial overlap.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Marine Panzani, Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Fabrice Wallois, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Summary: During the last trimester of gestation, fetuses and preterm neonates begin to respond to sensory stimulation and discover the structure of their environment. A study showed that as early as 31 weeks gestational age, both preterm and full-term neonates were able to detect violations of regularity in auditory sequences.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Fran Lopez-Caballero, Brian Coffman, Dylan Seebold, Tobias Teichert, Dean F. Salisbury
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the modulation of Auditory-Evoked Responses (AERs) by stimulus intensity and inter-stimulus interval (ISI). The results showed that Middle Latency Responses (MLRs) were modulated by stimulus intensity, while both MLRs and Long Latency Responses (LLRs) were modulated by both intensity and ISI. Furthermore, an interaction between intensity and ISI was observed, with greater intensity effects at longer ISIs and greater ISI effects at louder intensities.
Article
Neurosciences
Yihui Zhang, Musi Xie, Yuzhi Wang, Pengmin Qin
Summary: The self is a crucial concept in psychology, and it plays a significant role in human survival and development. This study examines whether the neural response to an individual's own name (SON) and other names is influenced by repeated exposure to the stimulus. The findings reveal that multiple repetitions of the stimulus affect different temporal stages in SON-related processing, emphasizing the robustness of the late stage in this processing.