ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2015
Prestimulus Network Integration of Auditory Cortex Predisposes Near-Threshold Perception Independently of Local Excitability.
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- Perceptual awareness of near-threshold tones scales gradually with auditory cortex activity and pupil dilation.iScience · 2024Article
- Short-Term Effect of Auditory Stimulation on Neural Activities: A Scoping Review of Longitudinal Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography Studies.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Efficient Prestimulus Network Integration of Fusiform Face Area Biases Face Perception during Binocular Rivalry.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Selective Interruption of Auditory Interhemispheric Cross Talk Impairs Discrimination Learning of Frequency-Modulated Tone Direction But Not Gap Detection and Discrimination.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Impaired body-centred sensorimotor transformations in congenitally deaf people.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Decoding Object-Based Auditory Attention from Source-Reconstructed MEG Alpha Oscillations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Pre-stimulus alpha oscillation and post-stimulus cortical activity differ in localization between consciously perceived and missed near-threshold somatosensory stimuli.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Decoding across sensory modalities reveals common supramodal signatures of conscious perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Imaging the spontaneous flow of thought: Distinct periods of cognition contribute to dynamic functional connectivity during rest.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- A Sound-Sensitive Source of Alpha Oscillations in Human Non-Primary Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Prestimulus feedback connectivity biases the content of visual experiences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Tracking the Dynamic Functional Network Interactions During Goal-Directed Auditory Tasks by Brain State Clustering.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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- A roadmap for the study of conscious audition and its neural basis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Spontaneous Neural Oscillations Bias Perception by Modulating Baseline Excitability.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017Article
- Large-scale network dynamics of beta-band oscillations underlie auditory perceptual decision-making.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017Article
- Oscillatory Mechanisms of Stimulus Processing and Selection in the Visual and Auditory Systems: State-of-the-Art, Speculations and Suggestions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
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Abstract
An ever-increasing number of studies are pointing to the importance of network properties of the brain for understanding behavior such as conscious perception. However, with regards to the influence of prestimulus brain states on perception, this network perspective has rarely been taken. Our recent framework predicts that brain regions crucial for a conscious percept are coupled prior to stimulus arrival, forming pre-established pathways of information flow and influencing perceptual awareness. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and graph theoretical measures, we investigated auditory conscious perception in a near-threshold (NT) task and found strong support for this framework. Relevant auditory regions showed an increased prestimulus interhemispheric connectivity. The left auditory cortex was characterized by a hub-like behavior and an enhanced integration into the brain functional network prior to perceptual awareness. Right auditory regions were decoupled from non-auditory regions, presumably forming an integrated information processing unit with the left auditory cortex. In addition, we show for the first time for the auditory modality that local excitability, measured by decreased alpha power in the auditory cortex, increases prior to conscious percepts. Importantly, we were able to show that connectivity states seem to be largely independent from local excitability states in the context of a NT paradigm.
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