Repetition of complex frequency-modulated sweeps enhances neuromagnetic responses in the human auditory cortex

Altmann, Christian F.; Klein, C.; Heinemann, Linda V.; Wibral, Michael; Gaese, Bernhard H.; Kaiser, Jochen

doi:10.1016/j.heares.2011.07.008

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“…A possible explanation of the different results regarding MMN elicitation to FM sounds between our study and Altmann et al (2011) could be due to the differences between the frequency ranges used and the temporal rate at which the stimuli were presented (for a similar argument, see Heinemann et al, 2010). Even though our FM sweeps were designed to soften the transition between consecutive stimuli, the end frequencies and start frequencies among consecutive standard stimuli were always different, whereas the start frequencies of deviant stimuli were always the same as the end frequencies of the preceding standard stimuli.…”

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“…Two MEG studies showed MMNm elicitation when the variation of the direction of simple sweeps occurred (Pardo & Sams, ; Sams & Näätänen, ), whereas Altmann et al. 's () findings argued for repetition enhancement instead of genuine MMNm elicitation. However, it should be noted that between these studies there were considerable differences in the paradigm design, such as different ISIs, stimulus complexity, and duration.…”

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“…In this regard, we used similar complex FM sounds and similar ISIs as Altmann et al. 's () study, but our sounds were of shorter duration.…”

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“…Two magnetoencephalographic (MEG) studies showed that the magnetic counterpart of MMN (MMNm) was elicited when a regular presentation of FM glides was violated by a change in the FM direction (i.e., rising vs. falling), suggesting that the auditory system was able to preattentively extract the abstract relationship between frequency transitions (Pardo & Sams, 1993;Sams & Näätänen, 1991). However, by using complex FM sweeps with a Gaussian envelope to control for differences in the initial frequency, two recent MEG studies showed that the processing of complex FM sweeps led to repetition enhancement at short interstimulus intervals (ISIs: Altmann et al, 2011;Heinemann, Rahm, Kaiser, Gaese, & Altmann, 2010), but failed to observe MMNm when the acoustic regularity was violated (Altmann et al, 2011).…”

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Regularity encoding and deviance detection of frequency modulated sweeps: Human middle‐ and long‐latency auditory evoked potentials

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Fast encoding of frequency modulated (FM) sweeps is crucial for communication. In humans, FM sweeps deviating from the acoustic regularity elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN) evoked potential. Yet, direction sensitivity to FM sweeps is found in animals' primary auditory cortex, upstream of MMN sources found in humans. Here, we were interested in whether direction deviants of complex FM sweeps modulated brain responses earlier than MMN. We used a controlled oddball paradigm, and measured the middle latency responses (MLRs) and the MMN. Our results showed a repetition enhancement to the standards at the Pa component of the MLR and a genuine MMN in the later response range. These results show that, early in the cortical hierarchy, the system is sensitive to the physical characteristics of the repetitive stimuli, but a higher-order mechanism is needed to detect violations of the acoustic regularity.

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“…In this regard, we used similar complex FM sounds and similar ISIs as Altmann et al. 's () study, but our sounds were of shorter duration.…”

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Regularity encoding and deviance detection of frequency modulated sweeps: Human middle‐ and long‐latency auditory evoked potentials

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“…Previous magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have reported on the magnetic counter part of MMN (MMNm) in the right auditory cortex elicited by a directional change for 100-ms FM sweeps spanning one octave in range, centered at different frequencies. An enhancement in MMNm response has also been noted when successive FM sweeps were presented in identical directions (Heinemann et al, 2010;Altmann et al, 2011). However, Altmann et al (2011) showed that a deviation present in a repeated series of FM sweeps did not invoke significant directional change-related enhancements.…”

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A Minimum Temporal Window for Direction Detection of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps: A Magnetoencephalography Study

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Stimulus-Specific Adaptation in Field Potentials and Neuronal Responses to Frequency-Modulated Tones in the Primary Auditory Cortex

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In order to structure the sensory environment our brain needs to detect changes in the surrounding that might indicate events of presumed behavioral relevance. A characteristic brain response presumably related to the detection of such novel stimuli is termed mismatch negativity (MMN) observable in human scalp recordings. A candidate mechanism underlying MMN at the neuronal level is stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) which has several characteristics in common. SSA is the specific decrease in the response to a frequent stimulus, which does not generalize to an interleaved rare stimulus in a sequence of events. SSA was so far mainly described for changes in the response to simple pure tone stimuli differing in tone frequency. In this study we provide data from the awake rat auditory cortex on adaptation in the responses to frequency-modulated tones (FM) with the deviating feature being the direction of FM modulation. Adaptation of cortical neurons to the direction of FM modulation was stronger for slow modulation than for faster modulation. In contrast to pure tone SSA which showed no stimulus preference, FM adaptation in neuronal data differed sometimes between upward and downward FM. This, however, was not the case in the local field potential data recorded simultaneously. Our findings support the role of the auditory cortex as the source for change-related activity induced by FM stimuli by showing that dynamic stimulus features such as FM modulation can evoke SSA in the rat in a way very similar to FM-induced MMN in the human auditory cortex.

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Repetition of complex frequency-modulated sweeps enhances neuromagnetic responses in the human auditory cortex

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Regularity encoding and deviance detection of frequency modulated sweeps: Human middle‐ and long‐latency auditory evoked potentials

Regularity encoding and deviance detection of frequency modulated sweeps: Human middle‐ and long‐latency auditory evoked potentials

A Minimum Temporal Window for Direction Detection of Frequency-Modulated Sweeps: A Magnetoencephalography Study

Stimulus-Specific Adaptation in Field Potentials and Neuronal Responses to Frequency-Modulated Tones in the Primary Auditory Cortex

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