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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016

Alpha-Band Oscillations Reflect Altered Multisensory Processing of the McGurk Illusion in Schizophrenia.

Yadira Roa Romero, Julian Keil, Johanna Balz, Michael Niedeggen, Jürgen Gallinat, Daniel Senkowski

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yadira Roa RomeroDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany.
Julian KeilDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany.
Johanna BalzDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany.
Michael NiedeggenDepartment of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin Berlin, Germany.
Jürgen GallinatDepartment for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany.
Daniel SenkowskiDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin - St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEFreie Universität Berlin · DEUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The formation of coherent multisensory percepts requires integration of stimuli across the multiple senses. Patients with schizophrenia (ScZ) often experience a loss of coherent perception and hence, they might also show dysfunctional multisensory processing. In this high-density electroencephalography study, we investigated the neural signatures of the McGurk illusion, as a phenomenon of speech-specific multisensory processing. In the McGurk illusion lip movements are paired with incongruent auditory syllables, which can induce a fused percept. In ScZ patients and healthy controls we compared neural oscillations and event-related potentials (ERPs) to congruent audiovisual speech stimuli and McGurk illusion trials, where a visual /ga/ and an auditory /pa/ was often perceived as /ka/. There were no significant group differences in illusion rates. The EEG data analysis revealed larger short latency ERPs to McGurk illusion compared with congruent trials in controls. The reversed effect pattern was found in ScZ patients, indicating an early audiovisual processing deficit. Moreover, we observed stronger suppression of medio-central alpha-band power (8-10 Hz, 550-700 ms) in response to McGurk illusion compared with control trials in the control group. Again, the reversed pattern was found in SCZ patients. Moreover, within groups, alpha-band suppression was negatively correlated with the McGurk illusion rate in ScZ patients, while the correlation tended to be positive in controls. The topography of alpha-band effects indicated an involvement of auditory and/or frontal structures. Our study suggests that short latency ERPs and long latency alpha-band oscillations reflect abnormal multisensory processing of the McGurk illusion in ScZ.

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audiovisualmultisensory integrationneural oscillationsschizophreniaspeech

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