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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2019

Auditory Perceptual History Is Propagated through Alpha Oscillations.

Hao Tam Ho, David C Burr, David Alais, Maria Concetta Morrone

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. The Inattentional Rhythm in Audition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  8. Attention Rhythmically Shapes Sensory Tuning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  11. No evidence for rhythmic sampling in inhibition of return.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023
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  14. Evidence of Serial Dependence from Decoding of Visual Evoked Potentials.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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4 authors.

Hao Tam HoSchool of Psychology, University of Sydney, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Manning Road, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia; Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via San Zeno 31, 56123 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: tam.ho@sydney.edu.au.
David C BurrSchool of Psychology, University of Sydney, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Manning Road, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia; Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology, and Child Health, University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 12, 50139 Florence, Italy; Institute of Neuroscience, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: dave@in.cnr.it.
David AlaisSchool of Psychology, University of Sydney, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Manning Road, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.
Maria Concetta MorroneDepartment of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Via San Zeno 31, 56123 Pisa, Italy.

Funding

European Research Council 338866
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perception is a proactive, "predictive" process, in which the brain relies, at least in part, on accumulated experience to make best guesses about the world to test against sensory data, updating the guesses as new experience is acquired. Using novel behavioral methods, the present study demonstrates the role of alpha rhythms in communicating past perceptual experience. Participants were required to discriminate the ear of origin of brief sinusoidal tones that were presented monaurally at random times within a burst of uncorrelated dichotic white noise masks. Performance was not constant but varied with delay after noise onset in an oscillatory manner at about 9 Hz (alpha rhythm). Importantly, oscillations occurred only for trials preceded by a target tone to the same ear, either on the previous trial or two trials back. These results suggest that communication of perceptual history generates neural oscillations within specific perceptual circuits, strongly implicating behavioral oscillations in predictive perception and with formation of working memory.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAlpha RhythmAuditory PerceptionBrainFemaleHealthy VolunteersHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermPhotic StimulationReaction TimeVisual Perceptionalpha rhythmauditionbehavioral oscillationsdecision criterionperceptual echoperceptual historyresponse biasserial dependencesignal detection theoryworking memory

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PMID31761705
PMCPMC6926473

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