Plastic brain mechanisms for attaining auditory temporal order judgment proficiency.

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serval:BIB_75F6EAD48CFA
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Plastic brain mechanisms for attaining auditory temporal order judgment proficiency.
Journal
NeuroImage
Author(s)
Bernasconi F., Grivel J., Murray M.M., Spierer L.
ISSN
1095-9572 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1053-8119
Publication state
Published
Issued date
15/04/2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
50
Number
3
Pages
1271-1279
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Accurate perception of the order of occurrence of sensory information is critical for the building up of coherent representations of the external world from ongoing flows of sensory inputs. While some psychophysical evidence reports that performance on temporal perception can improve, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unresolved. Using electrical neuroimaging analyses of auditory evoked potentials (AEPs), we identified the brain dynamics and mechanism supporting improvements in auditory temporal order judgment (TOJ) during the course of the first vs. latter half of the experiment. Training-induced changes in brain activity were first evident 43-76 ms post stimulus onset and followed from topographic, rather than pure strength, AEP modulations. Improvements in auditory TOJ accuracy thus followed from changes in the configuration of the underlying brain networks during the initial stages of sensory processing. Source estimations revealed an increase in the lateralization of initially bilateral posterior sylvian region (PSR) responses at the beginning of the experiment to left-hemisphere dominance at its end. Further supporting the critical role of left and right PSR in auditory TOJ proficiency, as the experiment progressed, responses in the left and right PSR went from being correlated to un-correlated. These collective findings provide insights on the neurophysiologic mechanism and plasticity of temporal processing of sounds and are consistent with models based on spike timing dependent plasticity.

Keywords
Adult, Auditory Perception/physiology, Brain/physiology, Brain Mapping, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Functional Laterality, Humans, Judgment/physiology, Learning/physiology, Male, Neuronal Plasticity, Practice (Psychology), Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Time Perception/physiology, Young Adult
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Web of science
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