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ArticleNeuroImage2019

Consistent pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception across the lifespan.

Steven W McNair, Stephanie J Kayser, Christoph Kayser

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Article in NeuroImage, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Aging in the Primary Auditory Cortex.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
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  2. Evidence That Respiratory Phase May Modulate Task-Related Neural Representations of Visual Stimuli.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  5. Neural Processing of Speech Sounds in ASD and First-Degree Relatives.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023
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  6. Aging Effects on Cortical Responses to Tones and Speech in Adult Cochlear-Implant Users.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021
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  9. Sensory- and memory-related drivers for altered ventriloquism effects and aftereffects in older adults.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Steven W McNairInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, 62 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB, United Kingdom.
Stephanie J KayserDepartment for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany; Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence, Bielefeld University, Inspiration 1, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
Christoph KayserDepartment for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany; Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence, Bielefeld University, Inspiration 1, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany. Electronic address: christoph.kayser@uni-bielefeld.de.
Bielefeld University · DEUniversity of Glasgow · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L027534/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As we get older, perception in cluttered environments becomes increasingly difficult as a result of changes in peripheral and central neural processes. Given the aging society, it is important to understand the neural mechanisms constraining perception in the elderly. In young participants, the state of rhythmic brain activity prior to a stimulus has been shown to modulate the neural encoding and perceptual impact of this stimulus - yet it remains unclear whether, and if so, how, the perceptual relevance of pre-stimulus activity changes with age. Using the auditory system as a model, we recorded EEG activity during a frequency discrimination task from younger and older human listeners. By combining single-trial EEG decoding with linear modelling we demonstrate consistent statistical relations between pre-stimulus power and the encoding of sensory evidence in short-latency EEG components, and more variable relations between pre-stimulus phase and subjects' decisions in longer-latency components. At the same time, we observed a significant slowing of auditory evoked responses and a flattening of the overall EEG frequency spectrum in the older listeners. Our results point to mechanistically consistent relations between rhythmic brain activity and sensory encoding that emerge despite changes in neural response latencies and the relative amplitude of rhythmic brain activity with age.

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AdultAgedAgingAuditory PerceptionBrain WavesCerebral CortexDiscrimination, PsychologicalEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHuman DevelopmentHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultAgingAuditory evoked potentialEEGOscillatory brain activityPre-stimulusSingle-trial decoding

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PMID30391564
PMCPMC6347568
OpenAlexW2950261555

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