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Attentional Modulation of Envelope-Following Responses at Lower (93-109 Hz) but Not Higher (217-233 Hz) Modulation Rates

Holmes, E; Purcell, DW; Carlyon, RP; Gockel, HE; Johnsrude, IS; (2018) Attentional Modulation of Envelope-Following Responses at Lower (93-109 Hz) but Not Higher (217-233 Hz) Modulation Rates. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology , 19 (1) pp. 83-97. 10.1007/s10162-017-0641-9. Green open access

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Abstract

Directing attention to sounds of different frequencies allows listeners to perceive a sound of interest, like a talker, in a mixture. Whether cortically generated frequency-specific attention affects responses as low as the auditory brainstem is currently unclear. Participants attended to either a high- or low-frequency tone stream, which was presented simultaneously and tagged with different amplitude modulation (AM) rates. In a replication design, we showed that envelope-following responses (EFRs) were modulated by attention only when the stimulus AM rate was slow enough for the auditory cortex to track—and not for stimuli with faster AM rates, which are thought to reflect ‘purer’ brainstem sources. Thus, we found no evidence of frequency-specific attentional modulation that can be confidently attributed to brainstem generators. The results demonstrate that different neural populations contribute to EFRs at higher and lower rates, compatible with cortical contributions at lower rates. The results further demonstrate that stimulus AM rate can alter conclusions of EFR studies.

Type: Article
Title: Attentional Modulation of Envelope-Following Responses at Lower (93-109 Hz) but Not Higher (217-233 Hz) Modulation Rates
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-017-0641-9
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10162-017-0641-9
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Otorhinolaryngology, Neurosciences & Neurology, attention, FFR, EFR, EEG, brainstem, FREQUENCY-FOLLOWING RESPONSES, STEADY-STATE RESPONSES, HUMAN AUDITORY-CORTEX, SELECTIVE ATTENTION, SPEECH-PERCEPTION, HUMAN BRAIN, POTENTIALS, LOCUS, GYRUS, LOAD
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047209
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