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Phase Coherence of Rhythmic Brain Activity as an Indicator of Differences in Sound Stimuli in the Oddball Paradigm

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This study addressed the influences of acoustic context on evoked rhythmic activity in the human brain underlying discrimination of stationary and moving sound stimuli using the oddball paradigm. Changes in context were created by rearranging the roles of the standard and deviant stimuli in different series. Event-related spectral perturbations (ERSP) and intertrial phase coherence (ITC), calculated on the basis of frequency-time decomposition of EEG traces, were analyzed. The moving standard stimulus evoked greater coherence of α and θ oscillations than the stationary standard. Presentation of moving stimuli as deviants led to an additional increase in the coherence of the evoked oscillations. In the direct configuration, presentation of deviants produced synchronization of slow oscillations, while presentation in the reverse configuration produced desynchronization. The extent of phase coherence can presumptively be regarded as an objective indicator of the discrimination of moving and stationary sound signals.

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel’nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 830–845, November–December, 2021.

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Shestopalova, L.B., Petropavlovskaia, E.A. Phase Coherence of Rhythmic Brain Activity as an Indicator of Differences in Sound Stimuli in the Oddball Paradigm. Neurosci Behav Physi 52, 917–927 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-022-01316-1

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