Neural Correlates of Auditory Repetition Priming: Reduced fMRI Activation in the Auditory Cortex
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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To efficiently recognize and localize sounds is of paramount importance for our everyday life. However, the computational processes that underlie these capabilities in the human brain are still not fully understood. A powerful tool to study the representation and transformation of sensory information in the human brain are change-related paradigms. This text reviews three recent examples from our lab that employed change-related paradigms with different brain imaging modalities to characterize the representation of sounds in the human brain. Specifically, a first experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging and signal response suppression after stimulus repetition to characterize the representation of natural sounds. A second magnetoencephalo-graphic experiment, used a two-tone paradigm to describe the time-course of adaptation to natural sounds. In a third experiment, we employed a spatial mismatch negativity oddball paradigm during electroencephalography to test for head-related versus allocentric representation of sound sources in the human brain.