Learning-induced plasticity in auditory spatial representations revealed by electrical neuroimaging.
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Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
ID Serval
serval:BIB_95AB8429A28F
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Learning-induced plasticity in auditory spatial representations revealed by electrical neuroimaging.
Périodique
Journal of Neuroscience
ISSN
1529-2401[electronic]
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2007
Volume
27
Numéro
20
Pages
5474-5483
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Auditory spatial representations are likely encoded at a population level within human auditory cortices. We investigated learning-induced plasticity of spatial discrimination in healthy subjects using auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs) and electrical neuroimaging analyses. Stimuli were 100 ms white-noise bursts lateralized with varying interaural time differences. In three experiments, plasticity was induced with 40 min of discrimination training. During training, accuracy significantly improved from near-chance levels to approximately 75%. Before and after training, AEPs were recorded to stimuli presented passively with a more medial sound lateralization outnumbering a more lateral one (7:1). In experiment 1, the same lateralizations were used for training and AEP sessions. Significant AEP modulations to the different lateralizations were evident only after training, indicative of a learning-induced mismatch negativity (MMN). More precisely, this MMN at 195-250 ms after stimulus onset followed from differences in the AEP topography to each stimulus position, indicative of changes in the underlying brain network. In experiment 2, mirror-symmetric locations were used for training and AEP sessions; no training-related AEP modulations or MMN were observed. In experiment 3, the discrimination of trained plus equidistant untrained separations was tested psychophysically before and 0, 6, 24, and 48 h after training. Learning-induced plasticity lasted <6 h, did not generalize to untrained lateralizations, and was not the simple result of strengthening the representation of the trained lateralizations. Thus, learning-induced plasticity of auditory spatial discrimination relies on spatial comparisons, rather than a spatial anchor or a general comparator. Furthermore, cortical auditory representations of space are dynamic and subject to rapid reorganization.
Mots-clé
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Cortex, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Neuronal Plasticity, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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25/01/2008 12:34
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20/08/2019 15:57