About time: Ageing influences neural markers of temporal predictability

Brinkmann, Pia; Rigoulot, Simon; Kadi, Melissa; Schwartze, Michael; Kotz, Sonja A.; Bella, Simone Dalla

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108135

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“…To investigate this hypothesis , we recruited younger and older individuals and recorded their neural activity using EEG while they listened to simple isochronous equitone sequences presented at a stimulation frequency (Sf) of 1.5Hz. Analyses on event-related potentials (ERP) revealed that older adults exhibited heightened, more variable, and faster N100 responses, consistent with previous findings 3, [19][20][21][22][23][24] . These results support the notion that aging affects the ability to engage in 'sensory gating' 22 , specifically the suppression of cortical responses to repetitive and predictable stimuli 20,23 .…”

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“…Analyses on event-related potentials (ERP) revealed that older adults exhibited heightened, more variable, and faster N100 responses, consistent with previous findings 3, [19][20][21][22][23][24] . These results support the notion that aging affects the ability to engage in 'sensory gating' 22 , specifically the suppression of cortical responses to repetitive and predictable stimuli 20,23 . Additionally, the increased variability in the N100 amplitude and latency suggests altered encoding of tone onsets in aging.…”

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“…As the first tones within an auditory sequence are known to elicit much stronger neural responses compared to later tones, we focused subsequent analyses on tones from the 3 rd to the 7 th position (STD before the onset of a DEV tone). Furthermore, as most of the surveyed evidence highlighted a specific impact of ageing on the N100 component 3,[19][20][21][22][23][24] , subsequent analyses focused on the N100 component only. Analyses of the P50 and P200 components can be found in the Supplementary materials.…”

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“…Consequently, , event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded by electroencephalography (EEG) exhibit enhanced amplitude responses in aging individuals, particularly in the N100 component 3,[19][20][21][22][23][24] . There is consensus in associating these larger ERP responses with the reduced ability to employ 'sensory gating' 22 , an adaptive mechanism to suppress cortical responses to repetitions of predictable stimuli 20,23 . Furthermore, variability in the latency of event-related responses to sounds 21,25 and the reduction in steady-state responses to auditory metronomes 26,27 suggest a change in encoding the precise timing of sensory events, and internalizing the temporal regularity in auditory sequences.…”

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Aging impacts basic auditory and timing processes

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Schwartze,

Bonetti

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Deterioration in the peripheral and central auditory systems is common in older adults and often leads to hearing and speech comprehension difficulties. Even when hearing remains intact, electrophysiological data of older adults frequently exhibit altered neural responses across the auditory pathway, reflected in variability in the phase alignment of neural activity to speech sound onsets. However, it remains unclear whether speech processing challenges in older adults stem from more fundamental deficits in auditory and timing processing. Here, we investigated the efficiency of aging individuals in encoding temporal regularities in acoustic sequences and their ability to predict future events. We recorded EEG in older and young individuals listening to simple isochronous tone sequences. A comprehensive analysis pipeline evaluated the amplitude, latency, and variability of event-related responses (ERPs) to each tone onset along the auditory sequences. Spectral parametrization and Inter-Trial Phase Coherence (ITPC) analyses assessed how participants encoded the temporal regularity in the acoustic environment. Our findings indicate that aging individuals exhibit altered temporal processing and reduced capacity to generate and utilize temporal predictions to time-lock and adaptively suppress neural responses to predictable and repeated tones in auditory sequences. Given that deteriorations in these basic timing capacities may affect other higher-order cognitive processes (e.g., attention, perception, and action), our results underscore the need for future research examining the link between timing abilities and general cognition across the lifespan.

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“…A large body of research has shown smaller sensory responses to sounds in isochronous than jittered sequences, both for the N1 component (Foldal et al, 2020;Kotz et al, 2014;Lange, 2009Lange, , 2010Makov & Zion Golumbic, 2020;Schwartze et al, 2013;van Atteveldt et al, 2015), and the P1 component (Brinkmann et al, 2021;Rimmele et al, 2011;Schwartze et al, 2013. This is in line with the attenuation of expected sounds as predicted by predictive processing accounts of temporal expectations.…”

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Probing beat perception with event-related potentials (ERPs) in human adults, newborns, and non-human primates

Bouwer,

Háden,

Honing

2023

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The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of how the perception of rhythmic temporal regularity such as a regular beat in music can be studied in human adults, human newborns, and non-human primates using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). First, we discuss different aspects of temporal structure in general, and musical rhythm in particular, and we discuss the possible mechanisms underlying the perception of regularity (e.g., a beat) in rhythm. Additionally, we highlight the importance of dissociating beat perception from the perception of other types of structure in rhythm, such as predictable sequences of temporal intervals, ordinal structure, and rhythmic grouping. In the second section of the chapter, we start with a discussion of auditory ERPs elicited by infrequent and frequent sounds: ERP responses to regularity violations, such as mismatch negativity (MMN), N2b, and P3, as well as early sensory responses to sounds, such as P1 and N1, have been shown to be instrumental in probing beat perception. Subsequently, we discuss how beat perception can be probed by comparing ERP responses to sounds in regular and irregular sequences, and by comparing ERP responses to sounds in different metrical positions in a rhythm, such as on and off the beat or on strong and weak beats. Finally, we will discuss previous research that has used the aforementioned ERPs and paradigms to study beat perception in human adults, human newborns, and non-human primates. In doing so, we consider the possible pitfalls and prospects of the technique, as well as future perspectives.

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