Psychological and neuroscientific foundations of rhythms and timing

Doelling, Keith B.; Herbst, Sophie K.; Arnal, Luc H.; Wassenhove, Virginie van

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“…The performance enhancement by the valid cue is a pivotal finding, because the ongoing debate about whether oscillatory entrainment is instrumental to temporal prediction revolves around the central question of whether it can be actively modulated in a top-down manner. Growing evidence shows that rhythmic stimuli with a regular structure facilitates temporal processing and enables behavioral benefits due to temporal anticipation (2,3,5,25,26,37,50). Neural oscillations reflect rhythmic fluctuations of neural excitability and are, therefore, excellent candidates for a mechanism underlying temporal prediction via the phase alignment of slow oscillations to external events (2,3,5,25,26,37).…”

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“…Growing evidence shows that rhythmic stimuli with a regular structure facilitates temporal processing and enables behavioral benefits due to temporal anticipation (2,3,5,25,26,37,50). Neural oscillations reflect rhythmic fluctuations of neural excitability and are, therefore, excellent candidates for a mechanism underlying temporal prediction via the phase alignment of slow oscillations to external events (2,3,5,25,26,37). This also makes oscillatory entrainment an elegant neurophysiological implementation of the dynamic attending theory (5,35,50).…”

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“…Humans, among some other species, show a strong tendency to synchronize their movements to periodic events that express a regular pulse or beat (Merchant et al, 2015), and their oscillatory brain activity synchronizes with rhythmic sounds (Obleser and Kayser, 2019). This has been referred to as neural entrainment, and there is an active debate as to whether this entrainment is instrumental to temporal prediction and under active top-down control (Doelling et al, 2023(Doelling et al, , 2023Lakatos et al, 2019;Rimmele et al, 2018).…”

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“…Most environmental rhythms and patterns in human behavior, such as walking, dancing, and speech, however, do not display strict isochrony (Bonnet et al, 2024;Doelling et al, 2023) but are instead quasi-periodic. Nevertheless, neural entrainment to the amplitude envelope (changes in the amplitude of a sound over time) of, for example, speech has been shown to support comprehension (Ding et al, 2017;Giraud and Poeppel, 2012;Lakatos et al, 2019;Poeppel and Assaneo, 2020;Zoefel and VanRullen, 2016).…”

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“…In fact, both the temporal regularity and distinctness of rhythmic acoustic stimuli can vary substantially. Most environmental rhythms and patterns in human behavior, such as walking, dancing and speech, do not show strict isochrony (3). Moreover, if the crucial content of, for example, a speech syllable or a musical note is stretched out in time, it might be beneficial to lower the perceptual temporal precision and rather widen the time window for perceptual processing.…”

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Predicting the Beat Bin: Beta Oscillations Predict the Envelope Sharpness in a Rhythmic Sequence

Leske¹,

Endestad²,

Volehaugen³

et al. 2023

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The brain exploits acoustic temporal regularities in the environment to enable prediction of the timing of future events and to optimize sensory processing and behavior. Periodic sensory inputs have been shown to entrain oscillatory brain activity. But to what extent is this entrainment mechanism instrumental to temporal prediction and under top-down control? The current study addresses these questions by investigating whether the brain can use a cue to predict the precision of a beat, thereby exerting flexible endogenous control via neural entrainment according to the precision needed in the given sensory context. Using sound cues, we informed participants about the acoustic shape (sharp or smooth) of the upcoming target sound, thus inducing two alternative levels of predicted temporal precision: high or low. Participants were asked to detect the delay of a target sound relative to a series of preceding isochronous sounds that were physically constant across all conditions. The results show that the information of the cue modulated the prediction of beat precision. Pre-target beta (15-25 Hz) power, as well as beta and alpha (8-12 Hz) phase locking, was enhanced if the listener predicted a target sound with a high compared to a low temporal precision. Interestingly, pre-target beta power correlated positively with behavioral performance in the delay-detection task but negatively with the variability of the perceptual center (P-center) of the sounds, demonstrating the tight relation between beta oscillations and perceptual temporal precision. This study provides new insight into the predictive processes underlying entrainment to different levels of temporal precision during beat perception and shows for the first time that these processes are in fact under top-down control.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Predicting the Beat Bin: Beta Oscillations Predict the Envelope Sharpness in a Rhythmic Sequence

Leske¹,

Endestad²,

Volehaugen³

et al. 2023

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Neural oscillations suggest periodicity encoding during auditory beat processing in the premature brain

Edalati,

Wallois,

Ghostine

et al. 2024

Developmental Science

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When exposed to rhythmic patterns with temporal regularity, adults exhibit an inherent ability to extract and anticipate an underlying sequence of regularly spaced beats, which is internally constructed, as beats are experienced even when no events occur at beat positions (e.g., in the case of rests). Perception of rhythm and synchronization to periodicity is indispensable for development of cognitive functions, social interaction, and adaptive behavior. We evaluated neural oscillatory activity in premature newborns (n = 19, mean age, 32 ± 2.59 weeks gestational age) during exposure to an auditory rhythmic sequence, aiming to identify early traces of periodicity encoding and rhythm processing through entrainment of neural oscillations at this stage of neurodevelopment. The rhythmic sequence elicited a systematic modulation of alpha power, synchronized to expected beat locations coinciding with both tones and rests, and independent of whether the beat was preceded by tone or rest. In addition, the periodic alpha‐band fluctuations reached maximal power slightly before the corresponding beat onset times. Together, our results show neural encoding of periodicity in the premature brain involving neural oscillations in the alpha range that are much faster than the beat tempo, through alignment of alpha power to the beat tempo, consistent with observations in adults on predictive processing of temporal regularities in auditory rhythms.Research Highlights In response to the presented rhythmic pattern, systematic modulations of alpha power showed that the premature brain extracted the temporal regularity of the underlying beat. In contrast to evoked potentials, which are greatly reduced when there is no sounds event, the modulation of alpha power occurred for beats coinciding with both tones and rests in a predictive way. The findings provide the first evidence for the neural coding of periodicity in auditory rhythm perception before the age of term.

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Resonating with the World: Thinking Critically about Brain Criticality

Leisman,

Koch

2023

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Aim: Biofields combine many physiological levels both spatially and temporally. These biofields reflect naturally resonant forms of synaptic energy reflected in growing and spreading waves of brain activity. The study desires to theoretically understand better how resonant continuum waves may be reflective of consciousness, memory, and thought. Background: The metabolic processes that maintain animal cellular and physiological function are enhanced by physiological coherence. Internal biological system coordination and sensitivity to particular stimuli and signal frequencies are two aspects of coherent physiology. There exists significant support for the notion that exogenous biologically and non-biologically generated energy entrains human physiological systems. All living things have resonant frequencies that are either comparable or coherent, therefore eventually all species will have a shared resonance. An organism's biofield activity and resonance are what support its life and allow it to react to stimuli. Methods: As the naturally resonant forms of synaptic energy are growing and spreading waves of brain activity, The temporal and spatial frequency of waves are effectively regulated by a time delay (T) in inter-layer signals in a layered structure that mimics the structure of the mammalian cortex. From ubiquitous noise, two different types of waves can arise as a function of T. One is coherent, and as T rises, so does its resonant spatial frequency. Results: Continued growth eventually causes both the wavelength and the temporal frequency to abruptly increase. Two waves expand simultaneously and randomly interfere in an area of T values as a result. Conclusion: We suggest that because of this extraordinary dualism, which has its roots in the phase relationships of amplified waves, coherent waves are essential for memory retrieval whereas random waves represent original cognition.

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Psychological and neuroscientific foundations of rhythms and timing

Cited by 7 publications

References 102 publications

Predicting the Beat Bin: Beta Oscillations Predict the Envelope Sharpness in a Rhythmic Sequence

Predicting the Beat Bin: Beta Oscillations Predict the Envelope Sharpness in a Rhythmic Sequence

Neural oscillations suggest periodicity encoding during auditory beat processing in the premature brain

Resonating with the World: Thinking Critically about Brain Criticality

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