Changes in the auditory scene include the formation of new objects from the acoustic background, change in the properties of existing objects, in addition to the appearance or disappearance of objects from the scene. This chapter summarizes results of imaging the processing of these attributes of auditory stimuli that takes place in parallel during a time period of about 100 msec (80–170 msec) after onset of a sound.
Electrophysiological functional imaging of auditory processing of sound onset, offset, it's detection as deviant and its formation from a cluster of acoustic features allowed reasonable spatial resolution coupled with unparalleled temporal resolution. Such imaging allowed following the time course of processing a variety of sounds attributes. The time courses that are thus revealed are sensitive to the nature of the stimulus and different aspects of the stimulus were found to be analyzed in parallel in different brain areas. Different modes of processing manifest in different time courses of brain activity as revealed by electrophysiological functional imaging of dyslexics vs. normal readers.
These results indicate that the brain is a parallel processor that simultaneously handles many aspects of the processed material and adapts this processing with experience.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Anderer, P., Saletu, B., Semlitsch, H. V., & Pascual-Marqui, R. D. (2002). Non-invasive localization of P300 sources in normal aging and age-associated memory impairment. Neurobiological Aging, 24, 463-479.
Bregman, A. S. (1990). Auditory scene analysis, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Creutzfeldt, O., Hellweg, F. C., & Schreiner, C. (1980). Thalamocortical transformation of responses to complex auditory stimuli. Experimental Brain Research, 39, 87-104.
Dickson, J., Drury, H., & Van Essen, D.C. (2001). Surface management system (SuMS): a surface-based database to aid cortical surface reconstruction, visualization and analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciiences, 356, 1277-1292.
Esslen, M., Pascual-Marqui, R. D, Hell, D., Kochi, K., & Lehmann, D. (2000). Brain areas and time course of emotional processing. Neuroimage, 21, 1189-1203.
Gehr, D. D., Komiya, H., Eggermont, J. J. (2000). Neuronal responses in cat primary auditory cortex to natural and altered species-specific calls. Ear & Hear, 150, 27-42.
Horev, N., Most, T., & Pratt, H., in press, Categorical Perception of Speech (VOT) and Analogous Non-Speech (FOT) Signals: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates. Ear & Hear.
Laufer, I., & Pratt, H. (2003). The Electrophysiological Net Response (F-complex) to Spatial Fusion of Speech Elements Forming an Auditory Object. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 818-834.
Laufer, I., & Pratt, H. (2005). The ‘F-complex’ and MMN tap different aspects of deviance, Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 336-352.
Leppelsack, H. J. (1978). Unit responses to species-specific sounds in the auditory forebrain center of birds. Federation Proceedings, 137, 2336-2341.
Maurer, U., Bucher, K., Brem, S., & Brandeis, D. (2003). Development of the automatic mismatch response: from frontal positivity in kindergarten children to the mismatch negativity. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 808-817.
Menendez, R. G. D, Andino, S. G., Lantz, G., Michel, C. M., & Landis, T. (2001). Noninvasive localization of electromagnetic epileptic activity. I. Method descriptions and simulations. Brain Topography, 14, 131-137.
Moisescu-Yiflach, T., & Pratt, H. (2005). Auditory Event Related Potentials and Source Current Density Estimation in Phonologic/Auditory Dyslexics. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2632-2647.
Newman, J. D., & Wollberg, Z. (1973). Multiple coding of species-specific vocalizations in the auditory cortex of squirrel monkeys. Brain Research, 54, 287-304.
Nichols, T. E., Holmes, A. P. (2002). Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: a primer with examples. Human Brain Mapping, 15, 1-25.
Pantev, C., Hoke, M., Lehnertz, K., Lukenhoner, B., Anogianakis, G., & Wittkowski, W. (1995). Tonotopic organization of different areas of the human auditory cortex revealed by simultaneous magnetic and electric recordings. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 94, 26-40.
Park, H. J., Kwon, J. S., Youn, T., Pae, J. S., Kim, J. J., Kim, M. S., & Ha, K. S. (2002). Statistical parametric mapping of LORETA using high density EEG and individual MRI: application to mismatch negativities in schizophrenia. Human Brain Mapping, 17, 168-178.
Pascual-Marqui, R. D., Esslen, M., Kochi, K., & Lehmann, D. (2002). Functional imaging with low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA): a review. Methods & Findings in Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology, 24 Suppl C, 91-95.
Pascual-Marqui, R. D., Lehmann, D., Koeing, T., Kochi, K., Merlo, M. C. G., Hell, D., & Koukkou, M. (1999). Low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) functional imaging in acute, neuroleptic-naïve, first-episode, productive schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 90, 169-179.
Pascual-Marqui, R. D., Michel, C. M., & Lehmann, D. (1994). Low resolution electromagnetic tomography: a new method for localizing electrical activity in the brain. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 18, 49-65.
Pascual-Marqui, R. D. (1999). Review of methods for solving the EEG inverse problem. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 1, 75-86.
Phillips, C., Rugg, M. D., & Friston, K. J. (2002a). Anatomically informed basis functions for EEG source localization: combining functional and anatomical constraints. Neuroimage, 16,678-95.
Phillips, C., Rugg, M. D., & Friston, K. J. (2002b). Systematic regularization of linear inverse solutions of the EEG source localization problem. Neuroimage, 17, 287-301.
Pizzagalli, D. A., Lehmann, D., Hendrick, A. M., Regard, M., Pascual-Marqui, R. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2002). Affective judgments of faces modulate early activity (approximately 160 ms) within the fusiform gyri. Neuroimage, 16, 663-677.
Pratt, H., Bleich, N., & Mittelman, N. (2005). The composite N1 component to gaps in noise. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2648-2663.
Sinai, A., & Pratt, H. (2003a). High Resolution Time Course of Hemispheric Dominance Revealed by Low-Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA). Clinical Neurophysiology, 1181-1188.
Sinai, A., & Pratt, H. (2003b). Semantic Processing of Unattended Words and Pseudowords in First and Second Language: An ERP Study. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 14, 177-190.
Talairach, J., & Tournoux. P. (1988). Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain, in: 3-dimensional proportional system: an approach to cerebral imaging. Stuttgart, George Thiem Verlag.
Vitacco, D., Brandeis, D., Pascual-Marqui, R., & Martin, E. (2002). Correspondence of event-related potential tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging during language processing. Human Brain Mapping, 17, 4-12.
Wang, X., Merzenich, M. M., Beitel, R., & Schreiner, C. E. (1995). Representation of a species-specific vocalization in the primary auditory cortex of the common marmoset: temporal and spectral characteristics. Journal of Neurophysiology, 74, 2685-2706.
Yao, D., & He, B. (2001). A self-coherence enhancement algorithm and its application to enhancing three-dimensional source estimation from EEGs. Annals Biomedical Engineering, 29, 1019-1027.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Pratt, H. (2008). Electrophysiological Functional Imaging of Auditory Processing in Humans. In: Breznitz, Z. (eds) Brain Research in Language. Literacy Studies, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74980-8_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74980-8_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-74979-2
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-74980-8
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)