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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

Decoding Concurrent Representations of Pitch and Location in Auditory Working Memory.

Stefan Czoschke, Cora Fischer, Tara Bahador, Christoph Bledowski, Jochen Kaiser

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Maintaining Auditory Working Memory Representations beyond Sensory Cortices Makes Working Memory Work.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  10. Decoding of Working Memory Contents in Auditory Cortex Is Not Distractor-Resistant.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefan CzoschkeInstitute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7863-8272
Cora FischerInstitute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany.
Tara BahadorInstitute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany.
Christoph BledowskiInstitute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany.
Jochen KaiserInstitute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany j.kaiser@med.uni-frankfurt.de.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-5000
Goethe University Frankfurt · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multivariate analyses of hemodynamic signals serve to identify the storage of specific stimulus contents in working memory (WM). Representations of visual stimuli have been demonstrated both in sensory regions and in higher cortical areas. While previous research has typically focused on the WM maintenance of a single content feature, it remains unclear whether two separate features of a single object can be decoded concurrently. Also, much less evidence exists for representations of auditory compared with visual stimulus features. To address these issues, human participants had to memorize both pitch and perceived location of one of two sample sounds. After a delay phase, they were asked to reproduce either pitch or location. At recall, both features showed comparable levels of discriminability. Region of interest (ROI)-based decoding of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data during the delay phase revealed feature-selective activity for both pitch and location of a memorized sound in auditory cortex and superior parietal lobule. The latter region showed higher decoding accuracy for location than pitch. In addition, location could be decoded from angular and supramarginal gyrus and both superior and inferior frontal gyrus. The latter region also showed a trend for decoding of pitch. We found no region exclusively coding pitch memory information. In summary, the present study yielded evidence for concurrent representations of pitch and location of a single object both in sensory cortex and in hierarchically higher regions, pointing toward representation formats that enable feature integration within the same anatomic brain regions.

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Acoustic StimulationAuditory PerceptionBrain MappingCerebral CortexFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMemory, Short-TermPitch PerceptionYoung Adultauditorydecodingfunctional magnetic resonance imagingmultivariate pattern analysisworking memory

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PMID33846233
PMCPMC8260242
OpenAlexW3156749895

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