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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2017

Individual Differences in Human Auditory Processing: Insights From Single-Trial Auditory Midbrain Activity in an Animal Model.

Travis White-Schwoch, Trent Nicol, Catherine M Warrier, Daniel A Abrams, Nina Kraus

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Travis White-SchwochAuditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Trent NicolAuditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Catherine M WarrierAuditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Daniel A AbramsAuditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Nina KrausAuditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.

Funding

A preschool biomarker for literacyR01HD069414 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI KRAUS, NINA · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD069414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory-evoked potentials are classically defined as the summations of synchronous firing along the auditory neuraxis. Converging evidence supports a model whereby timing jitter in neural coding compromises listening and causes variable scalp-recorded potentials. Yet the intrinsic noise of human scalp recordings precludes a full understanding of the biological origins of individual differences in listening skills. To delineate the mechanisms contributing to these phenomena, in vivo extracellular activity was recorded from inferior colliculus in guinea pigs to speech in quiet and noise. Here we show that trial-by-trial timing jitter is a mechanism contributing to auditory response variability. Identical variability patterns were observed in scalp recordings in human children, implicating jittered timing as a factor underlying reduced coding of dynamic speech features and speech in noise. Moreover, intertrial variability in human listeners is tied to language development. Together, these findings suggest that variable timing in inferior colliculus blurs the neural coding of speech in noise, and propose a consequence of this timing jitter for human behavior. These results hint both at the mechanisms underlying speech processing in general, and at what may go awry in individuals with listening difficulties.

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Biological Variation, IndividualAcoustic StimulationAnimalsAuditory PerceptionChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesElectroencephalographyEvoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain StemFemaleGuinea PigsHumansIntelligenceMaleMesencephalonMicroelectrodesModels, Animalauditory midbrainauditory processingdevelopmentneural variabilityspeech in noise

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PMID28334187
PMCPMC6410521

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