Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11025541 | NeuroImage | 2019 | 43 Pages |
Abstract
Our findings indicate that these pattern-sensitive neurons can extract temporal and spectral regularities between successive acoustic stimuli. This is important because the extraction of regularities from the sound sequences will result in the development of expectancies for future sounds and hence, the present results are compatible with predictive coding models. Our results demonstrate that some collicular neurons, located as early as in the midbrain level, are involved in the generation and shaping of prediction errors in ways not previously considered and thus, the present findings challenge the prevailing view that perceptual organization of sound only emerges at the auditory cortex level.
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Authors
Manuel S. Malmierca, Blanca E. Niño-Aguillón, Javier Nieto-Diego, Ángel Porteros, David Pérez-González, Carles Escera,