Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4337849 | Neuroscience | 2014 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Recent neuroscientific studies have identified activity changes in an extensive cerebral network consisting of medial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, temporo-parietal junction, and temporal pole during the perception and identification of self- and other-generated stimuli. Because this network is supposed to be engaged in tasks which require agent identification, it has been labeled the evaluation network (e-network). The present study used self- versus other-generated movement sounds (long jumps) and electroencephalography (EEG) in order to unravel the neural dynamics of agent identification for complex auditory information. Participants (NÂ =Â 14) performed an auditory self-other identification task with EEG. Data was then subjected to a subsequent standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) analysis (source localization analysis). Differences between conditions were assessed using t-statistics (corrected for multiple testing) on the normalized and log-transformed current density values of the sLORETA images. Three-dimensional sLORETA source localization analysis revealed cortical activations in brain regions mostly associated with the e-network, especially in the medial prefrontal cortex (bilaterally in the alpha-1-band and right-lateralized in the gamma-band) and the temporo-parietal junction (right hemisphere in the alpha-1-band). Taken together, the findings are partly consistent with previous functional neuroimaging studies investigating unimodal visual or multimodal agent identification tasks (cf. e-network) and extent them to the auditory domain. Cortical activations in brain regions of the e-network seem to have functional relevance, especially the significantly higher cortical activation in the right medial prefrontal cortex.
Keywords
μVPcGIFGMNIEOGMicrovoltrTMSBOLDStgRTSSDTAg/AgClsLORETAAuditionElectroencephalographyelectro-oculographyblood-oxygenation-level-dependentERPSignal detection theoryRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationfrequency analysisfunctional magnetic resonance imagingfMRIStandardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomographypositron-emission tomographysuperior temporal gyrusdecibelReaction timesinferior frontal gyrusprimary visual cortexprimary auditory cortexsecondary auditory cortexEEG source localizationBrodmann areaMontreal Neurological InstituteSilver/silver chlorideEEGHertzPETEvent-related potentialprecentral gyrus
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Authors
C. Justen, C. Herbert, K. Werner, M. Raab,