Mechanisms of sustained perceptual entrainment after stimulus offset.

Autor: Aharoni M; Edmund and Lilly Safra Center for Brain Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.; Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany., Breska A; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany., Müller MM; Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany., Schröger E; Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The European journal of neuroscience [Eur J Neurosci] 2024 Mar; Vol. 59 (5), pp. 1047-1060. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 02.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16032
Abstrakt: Temporal alignment of neural activity to rhythmic stimulation has been suggested to result from a resonating internal neural oscillator mechanism, but can also be explained by interval-based temporal prediction. Here, we investigate behavioural and brain responses in the post-stimulation period to compare an oscillatory versus an interval-based account. Hickok et al.'s (2015) behavioural paradigm yielded results that relate to a neural oscillatory entrainment mechanism. We adapted the paradigm to an event-related potential (ERP) suitable design: a periodic sequence was followed, in half of the trials, by near-threshold targets embedded in noise. The targets were played in various phases in relation to the preceding sequences' period. Participants had to detect whether targets were played or not, and their EEG was recorded. Both behavioural results and the P300 component of the ERP were not only partially consistent with an oscillatory mechanism but also partially consistent with an interval-based attentional gain mechanism. Instead, data obtained in the post-entrainment period can best be explained with a combination of both mechanisms.
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Databáze: MEDLINE