Interhemispheric coupling between the posterior sylvian regions impacts successful auditory temporal order judgment.
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Interhemispheric coupling between the posterior sylvian regions impacts successful auditory temporal order judgment.
Journal
Neuropsychologia
ISSN
1873-3514 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0028-3932
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
48
Number
9
Pages
2579-2585
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Accurate perception of the temporal order of sensory events is a prerequisite in numerous functions ranging from language comprehension to motor coordination. We investigated the spatio-temporal brain dynamics of auditory temporal order judgment (aTOJ) using electrical neuroimaging analyses of auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) recorded while participants completed a near-threshold task requiring spatial discrimination of left-right and right-left sound sequences. AEPs to sound pairs modulated topographically as a function of aTOJ accuracy over the 39-77ms post-stimulus period, indicating the engagement of distinct configurations of brain networks during early auditory processing stages. Source estimations revealed that accurate and inaccurate performance were linked to bilateral posterior sylvian regions activity (PSR). However, activity within left, but not right, PSR predicted behavioral performance suggesting that left PSR activity during early encoding phases of pairs of auditory spatial stimuli appears critical for the perception of their order of occurrence. Correlation analyses of source estimations further revealed that activity between left and right PSR was significantly correlated in the inaccurate but not accurate condition, indicating that aTOJ accuracy depends on the functional decoupling between homotopic PSR areas. These results support a model of temporal order processing wherein behaviorally relevant temporal information--i.e. a temporal 'stamp'--is extracted within the early stages of cortical processes within left PSR but critically modulated by inputs from right PSR. We discuss our results with regard to current models of temporal of temporal order processing, namely gating and latency mechanisms.
Keywords
Adult, Auditory Perception/physiology, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex/physiology, Electroencephalography/methods, Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology, Functional Laterality/physiology, Humans, Judgment/physiology, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychoacoustics, Psychomotor Performance/physiology, Time Perception/physiology, Young Adult
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