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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sukhbinder Kumar, Sundeep Teki, Professor Tim GriffithsORCiD
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Previous behavioural studies have shown that repeated presentation of a randomly chosen acoustic pattern leads to the unsupervised learning of some of its specific acoustic features. The objective of our study was to determine the neural substrate for the representation of freshly learnt acoustic patterns. Subjects first performed a behavioural task that resulted in the incidental learning of three different noise-like acoustic patterns. During subsequent high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning, subjects were then exposed again to these three learnt patterns and to others that had not been learned. Multi-voxel pattern analysis was used to test if the learnt acoustic patterns could be 'decoded' from the patterns of activity in the auditory cortex and medial temporal lobe. We found that activity in planum temporale and the hippocampus reliably distinguished between the learnt acoustic patterns. Our results demonstrate that these structures are involved in the neural representation of specific acoustic patterns after they have been learnt.
Author(s): Kumar S, Bonnici HM, Teki S, Agus TR, Pressnitzer D, Maguire EA, Griffiths TD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Year: 2014
Volume: 281
Print publication date: 22/09/2014
Acceptance date: 14/07/2014
Date deposited: 07/11/2014
ISSN (print): 0962-8452
ISSN (electronic): 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1000
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1000
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