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The Relationship of Auditory Cortical Activity to Perception and Behavior

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Abstract

A fundamental question in auditory neuroscience is how activity in the brain relates to perception and can a causal link be found? Through the years many approaches have been used. Lesion studies and single unit analysis have led to a better understanding of which areas of the brain are involved in sound processing and how these areas represent important sound features. A growing body of evidence supports a role for primary auditory cortex (AI) not only in simply analyzing sounds, but also in integrating more complex aspects of perception and behavior. In the first section of this chapter we will address how AI activity relates to the perception of stimuli that have been extensively studied behaviorally and psychophysically, and how it relates to well-known psychophysical phenomena associated with perceptually organizing complex ‘auditory scenes’. In subsequent sections we address how attributes not directly represented in the stimulus, such as motivation and attention, are potentially represented in auditory cortex, and, finally, how auditory cortical activity is influenced by sensory motor associations, decisions, and rapid adaptive activity. Together this provides a picture of auditory cortical activity as not strictly and statically representing the physical attributes of a stimulus, but rather AI activity reflects parameters related to the perception of the stimulus and task-related parameters required to perform the appropriate behavior and motor action in response to the stimulus.

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Abbreviations

AC:

auditory cortex

AI:

primary auditory cortex

AM:

amplitude modulation

BF:

best frequency

CV:

consonant–vowel

FD:

frequency discrimination

FI:

frequency irrelevant

FM:

frequency modulation

fMRI:

functional magnetic resonance imaging

IC:

inferior colliculus

LED:

light-emitting diode

ITD:

interaural time difference

MDTF:

modulation detection transfer functions

MEG:

magnetoencephalography

MGB:

medial geniculate body

MGBd:

dorsal nucleus of the medial geniculate body

MGBm:

medial nucleus of the medial geniculate body

MGBv:

ventral nucleus of the medial geniculate body

MT:

middle-temporal field

MTF:

modulation transfer function

R:

rostral field

ROC:

receiver operating characteristics

RT:

reaction time

SAM:

sinusoidal amplitude modulation

STI:

speech transmission index

STMI:

spectrotemporal modulation index

STRF:

spectrotemporal receptive field

VOT:

voice-onset time

VS:

vector strength

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Sutter, M.L., Shamma, S.A. (2011). The Relationship of Auditory Cortical Activity to Perception and Behavior. In: Winer, J., Schreiner, C. (eds) The Auditory Cortex. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0074-6_29

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