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ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2018

Enhanced deviant responses in patterned relative to random sound sequences.

Rosy Southwell, Maria Chait

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Article in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 108 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Interplay of Bottom-Up Arousal and Attentional Capture during Auditory Scene Analysis: Evidence from Ocular Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rosy SouthwellEar Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Maria ChaitEar Institute, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: m.chait@ucl.ac.uk.
University College London · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K003399/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The brain draws on knowledge of statistical structure in the environment to facilitate detection of new events. Understanding the nature of this representation is a key challenge in sensory neuroscience. Specifically, it is unknown whether real-time perception of rapidly-unfolding sensory signals is driven by a coarse or detailed representation of the proximal stimulus history. We recorded electroencephalography brain responses to frequency outliers in regularly-patterned (REG) versus random (RAND) tone-pip sequences which were generated anew on each trial. REG and RAND sequences were matched in frequency content and span, only differing in the specific order of the tone-pips. Stimuli were very rapid, limiting conscious reasoning in favour of automatic processing of regularity. Listeners were naïve and performed an incidental visual task. Outliers within REG evoked a larger response than matched outliers in RAND. These effects arose rapidly (within 80 msec) and were underpinned by distinct sources from those classically associated with frequency-based deviance detection. These findings are consistent with the notion that the brain continually maintains a detailed representation of ongoing sensory input and that this representation shapes the processing of incoming information. Predominantly auditory-cortical sources code for frequency deviance whilst frontal sources are associated with tracking more complex sequence structure.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAuditory CortexAuditory PerceptionBrainElectroencephalographyEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHumansMalePrefrontal CortexReaction TimeSoundYoung AdultMismatch negativityOrbitofrontal cortexPrediction errorPredictive codingSurprise

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PMID30312781
PMCPMC6259587
OpenAlexW2951789606

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