Article
Psychology, Developmental
Jewel E. Crasta, Erica C. Jacoby
Summary: This study investigated the impact of attention on auditory processing in individuals with autism. EEG data were collected from 24 autistic adults and 24 neurotypical controls, aged 17-30, during passive and active attention conditions. The results showed that the autistic group exhibited delayed N1 latencies and reduced gamma power compared to neurotypical peers across both attention conditions. Furthermore, longer N1 latencies and reduced gamma synchronization were associated with more severe social and sensory symptoms. These findings suggest that directing attention to auditory stimuli may contribute to more typical neural auditory processing in autism.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
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
Neurosciences
Mia Schramm, Tatiana Goregliad Fjaellingsdal, Behrem Aslan, Paul Jung, Silke Lux, Marcel Schulze, Alexandra Philipsen
Summary: This study used electroencephalography to identify abnormal crossmodal activation in adult ADHD patients. The results showed an increased P200 amplitude in the visual channel of ADHD patients. Behavioral data analysis revealed poorer performance and higher discrimination thresholds in ADHD patients. Moreover, a negative correlation was found between the P200 component and sensation seeking behavior.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Renate Kat, Martien J. H. Kas
Summary: This study aimed to replicate auditory deficits in autism spectrum disorders and fragile X syndrome, and evaluate the impact on visual processing using electroencephalography. The results showed no differences between wild-type and knockout animals in auditory and visual evoked potentials. While visual sensory gating was enhanced, no changes were found in auditory sensory gating. The discrepancies within this study and between various studies raise questions about the external validity of these phenotypes.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Claude Alain, Ricky Chow, Jing Lu, Rahel Rabi, Vivek V. Sharma, Dawei Shen, Nicole D. Anderson, Malcolm Binns, Lynn Hasher, Dezhong Yao, Morris Freedman
Summary: In humans, age-related declines in vision, hearing, and touch are associated with changes in amplitude and latency of sensory-evoked potentials. These changes in neural activity may be due to a common deterioration of supra-modal brain areas or specific sensorineural impairments that vary between sensory modalities.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Bonnie K. K. Lau, Katherine A. A. Emmons, Adrian K. C. Lee, Jeff Munson, Stephen R. R. Dager, Annette M. M. Estes
Summary: Auditory processing differences, including hyper- or hyposensitivity to sound, aversions to sound, and difficulty listening under noisy, real-world conditions, are prevalent in autistic children and persist throughout childhood. These differences are associated with increased disruptive/concerning behaviors and difficulties with adaptive behaviors. Early identification of auditory processing differences may help predict future behavioral challenges and guide interventions for autistic children.
Article
Neurosciences
Chiara Dondena, Valentina Riva, Massimo Molteni, Gabriella Musacchia, Chiara Cantiani
Summary: This study focused on typically developing infants and tested the efficacy of music training based on complex musical rhythms. Results showed significant improvements in expressive and receptive language skills in trained infants, as well as changes in neural underpinnings of auditory processing.
Review
Psychiatry
Khaleel A. Razak, Devin K. Binder, Iryna M. Ethell
Summary: This study explored the association between autism spectrum disorders and sensory processing disorders, as well as the neural correlates of Fragile X Syndrome. Findings indicated that individuals with Fragile X Syndrome often exhibit atypical sensory processing, including auditory hypersensitivity. By analyzing Fmr1 KO mice, the study revealed the neural mechanisms underlying auditory hypersensitivity and proposed new therapeutic approaches.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Malgorzata Wislowska, Wolfgang Klimesch, Ole Jensen, Christine Blume, Manuel Schabus
Summary: Recent research has found that a wide range of cognitive operations are preserved during sleep in humans. This challenges scientists to understand the functions and mechanisms of these processes, which have mainly been studied in awake individuals. In this study, the focus is on the dynamic changes of brain oscillations and connectivity patterns in response to environmental stimulation during non-REM sleep. The results show that aurally presented names were processed and differentiated by neurons across the wake-sleep spectrum. EEG and MEG signals recorded simultaneously revealed two distinct clusters of oscillatory power increase in response to the stimuli. This study discusses the possible roles of different oscillations during non-REM sleep and aims to develop a unified theory of brain rhythms and their functions during sleep.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Kevin D. Prinsloo, Edmund C. Lalor
Summary: Research has shown that cortical tracking of natural speech is mainly influenced by acoustic processing, but also reflects speech-specific processing. The tracking of the amplitude envelope is strongest for the ENV stimulus regardless of which speech stimulus is recognized, with a positive relationship between intelligibility and tracking of perceived speech.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Emy Nimbley, Lisa Golds, Helen Sharpe, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Fiona Duffy
Summary: This study assessed the relationship between sensory processing and various eating behaviors, and discussed the implications of the findings. The results showed a consistent relationship between sensory processing and eating behaviors, particularly taste/smell sensitivities and hypersensitivities. The relationship was also found to extend across development. The findings are important for sensory-based eating interventions and the understanding of eating disorders.
EUROPEAN EATING DISORDERS REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Riccardo Cusinato, Sigurd L. Alnes, Ellen van Maren, Ida Boccalaro, Debora Ledergerber, Antoine Adamantidis, Lukas L. Imbach, Kaspar Schindler, Maxime O. Baud, Athina Tzovara
Summary: During rest, intrinsic neural dynamics at multiple timescales increase in the auditory network, and exhibit spatial gradients in the neocortex. These intrinsic timescales can explain the latency of auditory responses, indicating their importance in auditory processing. This study provides insights into the repertoire of intrinsic neural dynamics in the human auditory system and their spatial organization.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Florence M. Aellen, Sigurd L. Alnes, Fabian Loosli, Andrea O. Rossetti, Frederic Zubler, Marzia De Lucia, Athina Tzovara
Summary: Assessing neural functions in coma after cardiac arrest is challenging. Prognostication based on visual expert scoring of physiological signals is subjective and leaves many patients with uncertain prognosis. This study suggests that convolutional neural networks can extract interpretable patterns of EEG responses to auditory stimuli during the first day of coma, predicting patients' chances of awakening and survival at 3 months.
Article
Neurosciences
Sam van Bijnen, Joona Muotka, Tiina Parviainen
Summary: Adults and children have different cortical auditory activation, which is relevant for cognitive performance in children, specifically inhibitory control. However, it is uncertain whether these differences result in functional differences in response inhibition between adults and children. Using M/EEG, we recorded auditory responses and found divergent brain-behavior associations between adults and children. Adults show negative associations between auditory cortical responses and inhibitory performance, while these associations are not significant in children or stronger responses are beneficial. There are also differences in brain responses between adults and children, with adults showing a shift in peak activation to frontomedial areas and children displaying prolonged obligatory responses in the auditory cortex.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Mikolaj Kegler, Hugo Weissbart, Tobias Reichenbach
Summary: Spoken language comprehension requires rapid integration of information from acoustic to linguistic features in the cerebral cortex. It is unclear whether early neural activity is modulated by higher-level cognitive processes. This study found that the early neural response at the fundamental frequency is influenced by both acoustic and linguistic information, suggesting top-down modulation.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Max Garagnani, Evgeniya Kirilina, Friedemann Pulvermuller
Summary: Experimental evidence has been found to support embodied theories of grounded semantics, showing that linking novel spoken words with familiar actions or objects triggers specific brain responses in the corresponding sensory and motor areas.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Neurosciences
Friedemann Pulvermueller, Rosario Tomasello, Malte R. Henningsen-Schomers, Thomas Wennekers
Summary: Neural network models have the potential to improve our understanding of brain functions, but they need to be more neurobiologically realistic. Although these models have advanced significantly, there are still imperfections in their similarity to aspects of brain anatomy and physiology.
NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
A. C. Jones, R. Gutierrez, A. K. Ludlow
Summary: The study found that congenitally deaf children tend to express emotions with greater intensity when producing facial expressions, possibly to avoid ambiguity in communication.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Bobbie L. Smith, Roberto Gutierrez, Amanda K. Ludlow
Summary: The study revealed that adults with TS exhibit higher levels of food avoidant behaviors, including food fussiness, food neophobia, and ARFID-associated behaviors, compared to adults without TS.
Article
Neurosciences
Rosario Tomasello, Luigi Grisoni, Isabella Boux, Daniela Sammler, Friedemann Pulvermueller
Summary: Speech prosody provides important clues about the speaker's communicative intentions. This study used high-density electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the neurophysiological basis of intonation and speech act understanding, finding that prosodic features are reflected at the neurophysiological level. The results demonstrate that humans can rapidly detect and understand speaker intentions in linguistic interactions through neurophysiological indexes when pragmatic and lexico-semantic information are fully expressed.
Correction
Psychology, Experimental
Malte R. Henningsen-Schomers, Friedemann Pulvermueller
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Malte R. Henningsen-Schomers, Friedemann Pulvermuller
Summary: A neurobiologically constrained deep neural network was used to investigate the formation of conceptual categories and semantic feature extraction. The study found that concrete concepts have complete feature sharing among instances, while abstract concepts have less feature overlap between instances, which may explain the difficulty children face when learning abstract words.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Luigi Grisoni, Friedemann Pulvermueller
Summary: The recent finding of predictive brain signals preceding anticipated perceptual and linguistic stimuli raises new questions for experimental research. This study investigates the neural basis of phonological predictions and their relationship to phonological priming. The results show that expected stimuli induce a slow anticipatory activity, while incongruent pairings elicit weaker post-stimulus responses.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Isabella P. Boux, Konstantina Margiotoudi, Felix R. Dreyer, Rosario Tomasello, Friedemann Pulvermueller
Summary: The study found that indirect replies were less certain, less predictable, less coherent with and less semantically similar to their context question compared to direct replies. These effects were smaller when direct and indirect replies were matched for the type of speech acts for which they were used. All measured cognitive dimensions were strongly associated with each other.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biology
Malte R. Henningsen-Schomers, Max Garagnani, Friedemann Pulvermueller
Summary: A neurobiologically constrained model was used to simulate the acquisition of concrete and abstract concepts in the human brain. The study found that the presence of verbal labels improved the learning of categories, especially for abstract concepts.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Tiffany Horncastle, Amanda K. Ludlow, Roberto Gutierrez
Summary: Sensory phenomena, including feelings of incompleteness and Not Just in Right Experiences (NJRE), are correlated with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The effect sizes of these sensory phenomena in relation to OCD symptoms are similar in clinical and non-clinical populations. This suggests that sensory phenomena could be targeted as an intervention for individuals with clinical or sub-clinical levels of OCD traits.
JOURNAL OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AND RELATED DISORDERS
(2022)
Meeting Abstract
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Max Garagnani, Guglielmo Lucchese
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Lea Doppelbauer, Bettina Mohr, Felix R. Dreyer, Benjamin Stahl, Verena Buescher, Friedemann Pulvermueller
Summary: The study demonstrates that intensive language-action therapy can sustainably improve language functions in patients with chronic aphasia for up to 2.5 years. Younger patients may retain these improvement effects better. However, the long-term stability of communicative efficacy remains uncertain.
NEUROREHABILITATION AND NEURAL REPAIR
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Roberto Gutierrez, Tulsi Hirani, Leo Curtis, Amanda K. Ludlow
