Brain activation when hearing one's own and others' names

Carmody, Dennis P.; Lewis, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.121

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“…This coactivation might mirror a general mechanism related to the detection of personally significant information. This interpretation is in line with imaging studies which have associated left frontal areas with familiarity detection (Plailly et al, 2007) and self-referential processing (e.g., hearing one's own name; Carmody and Lewis, 2006).…”

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confidence: 89%

Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

Roye¹,

Schröger²,

Jacobsen³

et al. 2010

J. Neurosci.

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Anecdotal reports and also empirical observations suggest a preferential processing of personally significant sounds. The utterance of one's own name, the ringing of one's own telephone, or the like appear to be especially effective for capturing attention. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the time course and functional neuroanatomy of the voluntary and the involuntary detection of personally significant sounds. To address this issue, we applied an active and a passive listening paradigm, in which male and female human participants were presented with the SMS ringtone of their own mobile and other's ringtones, respectively. Enhanced evoked oscillatory activity in the 35-75 Hz band for one's own ringtone shows that the brain distinguishes complex personally significant and nonsignificant sounds, starting as early as 40 ms after sound onset. While in animals it has been reported that the primary auditory cortex accounts for acoustic experience-based memory matching processes, results from the present study suggest that in humans these processes are not confined to sensory processing areas. In particular, we found a coactivation of left auditory areas and left frontal gyri during passive listening. Active listening evoked additional involvement of sensory processing areas in the right hemisphere. This supports the idea that top-down mechanisms affect stimulus representations even at the level of sensory cortices. Furthermore, active detection of sounds additionally activated the superior parietal lobe supporting the existence of a frontoparietal network of selective attention.

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Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

Roye¹,

Schröger²,

Jacobsen³

et al. 2010

J. Neurosci.

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“…Increased rTPJ activity in response to hearing one's own name has been reported previously using fMRI and PET (Carmody & Lewis, 2006;Holeckova et al, 2008;Perrin et al, 2005). The finding of diminished rTPJ activity for hearing one's own name in the ASD group is in accord with our hypothesis of a deficit in selfother distinction, and corresponds to results of earlier studies showing reduced TPJ activity in ASD during tasks requiring self-other distinction (Lombardo et al, 2011;Spengler et al, 2010) and mentalizing (Eddy, 2016;Murdaugh et al, 2014;Pantelis, Byrge, Tyszka, Adolphs, & Kennedy, 2015).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Research has shown reduced TPJ, and sometimes also mPFC activity in ASD during self-other distinction across several domains, including mentalizing (Eddy, 2016;Kennedy & Courchesne, 2008;Murdaugh, Nadendla, & Kana, 2014;Pfeifer et al, 2013;Spengler et al, 2010), adding to accumulating evidence that the TPJ is a core region implicated in ASD (Chien, Lin, Lai, Gau, & Tseng, 2015;Fishman, Keown, Lincoln, Pineda, & Müller, 2014;Kana, Uddin, Kenet, Chugani, & Müller, 2014). Importantly, the TPJ has also been found activated in the context of hearing one's own name (Carmody & Lewis, 2006;Holeckova et al, 2008;Perrin et al, 2005).…”

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Atypical neural responding to hearing one’s own name in adults with ASD.

Nijhof

Dhar

Goris

et al. 2018

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Diminished responding to hearing the own name is one of the earliest and strongest predictors of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we studied for the first time the neural correlates of hearing one's own name in ASD. Based on existing research, we hypothesized enhancement of late parietal positive activity specifically for the own name in neurotypicals, and this effect to be reduced in adults with ASD. Source localization analyses were conducted to estimate group differences in brain regions underlying this effect. 21 adults with ASD, and 21 age-and gender-matched neurotypicals were presented with three categories of names (own name, close other, unknown other) as task-irrelevant deviant stimuli in an auditory oddball paradigm, while EEG was recorded. As expected, a late parietal positivity was observed specifically for own names in neurotypicals, indicating enhanced attention to the own name.This preferential effect was absent in the ASD group. This group difference was associated with diminished activation in the rTPJ in adults with ASD. Further, a familiarity effect was found for the N1, with larger amplitudes for familiar names (own name and close other).However, groups did not differ for this effect. These findings provide evidence of atypical neural responding to hearing one's own name in adults with ASD, suggesting a deficit in selfother distinction, associated with rTPJ dysfunction.Keywords: autism spectrum disorder; ERP; own name; TPJ General Scientific Summary: Infants at risk of ASD are known to show a diminished response to hearing their own name. By investigating the neural response to hearing their own name in adults with ASD, we showed for the first time that also in adulthood, individuals with ASD show an atypical response to hearing their name.3

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“…However, we did find that the greatest activation of frontal cortex, in Brodmann areas 6 and 10, was in response to the child's own name thus providing evidence of differential neural function to her name. This activation in response to her first name is in agreement with the findings reported by Perrin et al (2005) using PET scanning as well as Carmody and Lewis (2006) using fMRI who showed evidence of differential brain activity to hearing one's own name versus others' names. Auditory self-recognition has brain activity specific to the frontal and temporal regions, as well as posterior brain regions, including the occipital cortex.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Perrin et al (2005) using EEG, as well as positron emission tomography (PET), found activation of the right medial prefrontal cortex when adults heard their own first name. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Carmody and Lewis (2006) showed that adults hearing their own first name activated both the anterior regions of middle frontal cortex and superior frontal cortex, as well as posterior regions of middle and superior temporal cortex, and cuneus.…”

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Brief Report: Brain Activation to Social Words in a Sedated Child with Autism

Carmody¹,

Moreno

Mars

et al. 2006

J Autism Dev Disord

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A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was performed on a 4-year-old girl with autism. While sedated, she listened to three utterances (numbers, hello, her own first name) played through headphones. Based on analyses of the fMRI data, the amount of total brain activation varied with the content of the utterance. The greatest volume of overall activation was in response to numbers, followed by the word 'hello', with the least activation to her name. Frontal cortex activation was greatest in response to her name, with less activation for numbers, and the least for the word 'hello.' These findings indicate that fMRI can identify and quantify the brain regions that are activated in response to words in children with autism under sedation.

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Brain activation when hearing one's own and others' names

Cited by 73 publications

References 34 publications

Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

Atypical neural responding to hearing one’s own name in adults with ASD.

Brief Report: Brain Activation to Social Words in a Sedated Child with Autism

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