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ArticleiScience2023

Neural alpha oscillations index context-driven perception of ambiguous vowel sequences.

Claude Alain, Katharina Göke, Dawei Shen, Gavin M Bidelman, Lori J Bernstein, Joel S Snyder

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Claude AlainRotman Research Institute, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Katharina GökeRotman Research Institute, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Dawei ShenRotman Research Institute, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada.
Gavin M BidelmanDepartment of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.
Lori J BernsteinDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada.
Joel S SnyderDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.

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Abstract

Perception of bistable stimuli is influenced by prior context. In some cases, the interpretation matches with how the preceding stimulus was perceived; in others, it tends to be the opposite of the previous stimulus percept. We measured high-density electroencephalography (EEG) while participants were presented with a sequence of vowels that varied in formant transition, promoting the perception of one or two auditory streams followed by an ambiguous bistable sequence. For the bistable sequence, participants were more likely to report hearing the opposite percept of the one heard immediately before. This auditory contrast effect coincided with changes in alpha power localized in the left angular gyrus and left sensorimotor and right sensorimotor/supramarginal areas. The latter correlated with participants' perception. These results suggest that the contrast effect for a bistable sequence of vowels may be related to neural adaptation in posterior auditory areas, which influences participants' perceptual construal level of ambiguous stimuli.

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AudiologyBehavioral neuroscienceLinguisticsSensory neuroscience

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PMID38058304
PMCPMC10696458

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