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ReviewProgress in neurobiology2022

The hearing hippocampus.

Alexander J Billig, Meher Lad, William Sedley, Timothy D Griffiths

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Review in Progress in neurobiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Non-verbal dichotic listening: A new cognitive hearing test for dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  8. Multisensory coding of audiovisual movies in the human hippocampus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. Survey of Hippocampal Responses to Sound in Naive Mice Reveals Widespread Activation by Broadband Noise Onsets.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  11. 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

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexander J BilligUCL Ear Institute, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: a.billig@ucl.ac.uk.
Meher LadTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
William SedleyTranslational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Timothy D GriffithsBiosciences Institute, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK; Human Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, USA.
Newcastle University · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics · US

Funding

Speech Production &LanguageP50DC000242 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Bruce Jay Gantz · 1989 to 2026
$58.8M
Medical Research Council MR/T032553/1Medical Research Council MR/V006568/1NIDCD NIH HHS P50 DC000242Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT106964MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing. Neural bases of sound analysis have been described in the pathway to auditory cortex, but wider networks supporting auditory cognition are still being established. We review what is known about the role of the hippocampus in processing auditory information, and how the hippocampus itself is shaped by sound. In examining imaging, recording, and lesion studies in species from rodents to humans, we uncover a hierarchy of hippocampal responses to sound including during passive exposure, active listening, and the learning of associations between sounds and other stimuli. We describe how the hippocampus' connectivity and computational architecture allow it to track and manipulate auditory information - whether in the form of speech, music, or environmental, emotional, or phantom sounds. Functional and structural correlates of auditory experience are also identified. The extent of auditory-hippocampal interactions is consistent with the view that the hippocampus makes broad contributions to perception and cognition, beyond spatial and episodic memory. More deeply understanding these interactions may unlock applications including entraining hippocampal rhythms to support cognition, and intervening in links between hearing loss and dementia.

Indexed as

Auditory CortexHippocampusAuditory PerceptionCognitionHearingHumansLearningAuditoryAuditory cognitionHearingHippocampusMedial temporal lobePerceptionSound

Identifiers

PMID35870677
PMCPMC10510040
OpenAlexW4286266868

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