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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Cortical temporal integration can account for limits of temporal perception: investigations in the binaural system.

Ravinderjit Singh, Hari M Bharadwaj

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Individual differences elucidate the perceptual benefits associated with robust temporal fine-structure processing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Ravinderjit SinghWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8195-6992
Hari M BharadwajWeldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. hari.bharadwaj@pitt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8685-9630

Funding

Indiana Medical Scientist/Engineer Training ProgramT32GM077229 · NIGMS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI GASTON, BENJAMIN, HERBERT, BRITTNEY-SHEA · 2008 to 2022
$6.0M
Indiana Medical Scientist/Engineer Training ProgramT32GM148382 · NIGMS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI Benjamin Gaston, Emily K Sims · 2023 to 2026
$3.9M
Individualized assays of supra-threshold hearing deficitsR01DC015989 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI HEINZ, MICHAEL G · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
Interdisciplinary Training in Auditory NeuroscienceT32DC016853 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Edward Bartlett, Michael G Heinz · 2018 to 2026
$1.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015989NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC016853NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM077229NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM148382
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The auditory system has exquisite temporal coding in the periphery which is transformed into a rate-based code in central auditory structures, like auditory cortex. However, the cortex is still able to synchronize, albeit at lower modulation rates, to acoustic fluctuations. The perceptual significance of this cortical synchronization is unknown. We estimated physiological synchronization limits of cortex (in humans with electroencephalography) and brainstem neurons (in chinchillas) to dynamic binaural cues using a novel system-identification technique, along with parallel perceptual measurements. We find that cortex can synchronize to dynamic binaural cues up to approximately 10 Hz, which aligns well with our measured limits of perceiving dynamic spatial information and utilizing dynamic binaural cues for spatial unmasking, i.e. measures of binaural sluggishness. We also find that the tracking limit for frequency modulation (FM) is similar to the limit for spatial tracking, demonstrating that this sluggish tracking is a more general perceptual limit that can be accounted for by cortical temporal integration limits.

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Auditory CortexTime PerceptionAcousticsBrain StemCortical SynchronizationHumans

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PMID37752215
PMCPMC10522716

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