| Autor: |
Holmes E; Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, Natural Sciences Centre, Room 120, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada. eholme5@uwo.ca., Purcell DW; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6G 1H1, Canada., Carlyon RP; MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK., Gockel HE; MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK., Johnsrude IS; Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, Natural Sciences Centre, Room 120, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6G 1H1, Canada. |
| Abstrakt: |
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. |
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