Brain activity underlying auditory perceptual learning during short period training: simultaneous fMRI and EEG recording

BMC Neuroscience

Daniel Callan²  Masa-aki Sato²  Hani Camille Yehia¹  Ana Cláudia Silva de Souza³ 

[1] Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;ATR Neural Information Analysis Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Ouro Branco, Brazil

关键词: Time-frequency analysis;    Simultaneous fMRI and EEG;    Auditory perception;    Perceptual learning;    Attention and performance;    Neural plasticity;   

Others  :  1140532
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2202-14-8

 received in 2012-08-13, accepted in 2012-12-26,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

There is an accumulating body of evidence indicating that neuronal functional specificity to basic sensory stimulation is mutable and subject to experience. Although fMRI experiments have investigated changes in brain activity after relative to before perceptual learning, brain activity during perceptual learning has not been explored. This work investigated brain activity related to auditory frequency discrimination learning using a variational Bayesian approach for source localization, during simultaneous EEG and fMRI recording. We investigated whether the practice effects are determined solely by activity in stimulus-driven mechanisms or whether high-level attentional mechanisms, which are linked to the perceptual task, control the learning process.

Results

The results of fMRI analyses revealed significant attention and learning related activity in left and right superior temporal gyrus STG as well as the left inferior frontal gyrus IFG. Current source localization of simultaneously recorded EEG data was estimated using a variational Bayesian method. Analysis of current localized to the left inferior frontal gyrus and the right superior temporal gyrus revealed gamma band activity correlated with behavioral performance.

Conclusions

Rapid improvement in task performance is accompanied by plastic changes in the sensory cortex as well as superior areas gated by selective attention. Together the fMRI and EEG results suggest that gamma band activity in the right STG and left IFG plays an important role during perceptual learning.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Souza et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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