Action-related auditory ERP attenuation: Paradigms and hypotheses

Horváth, János

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.03.038

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“…Moreover, two studies reported ERP effects prior to hand movements that were suggested to reflect preactivation of anticipated stimulus representations (Hughes & Waszak, ). Although concerns about the confounding effect of (predominantly temporal) attention have been raised for auditory studies of similar nature (Horváth, ; Lange, ; Schröger et al, ), this is not very likely for the C1, since this component was found to be insensitive to attentional modulation (Fu, Fedota, Greenwood, & Parasuraman, ; Hillyard & Anllo‐Vento, ). Thus, we argue that modulations of the C1 component in our study were due to motor‐based predictions and their consequential attenuation of visual responses.…”

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Action‐associated modulation of visual event‐related potentials evoked by abstract and ecological stimuli

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This study investigated the influence of action-associated predictive processes on visual ERPs. In two experiments, we sought evidence for sensory attenuation (SA) indexed by ERP amplitude reductions for self-induced stimuli when compared to passive viewing of the same images. We assessed if SA is (a) present for both ecological and abstract stimuli (pictures depicting hands or checkerboards), (b) modulated by the degree of stimulus predictability (certain or uncertain action-effect contingencies), and (c) sensitive to laterality of hand movements (dominant or subdominant hand actions). We found reduced occipital responses in the early 77-90 ms time interval (C1 component), irrespective of stimulus type, predictability, or the laterality of hand movements. However, the subsequent P1 component was increased (rather than reduced) for all action-associated stimuli. In addition, this P1 effect was influenced by the degree of stimulus predictability for ecological stimuli only. Finally, the posterior N1 component was not modulated by self-initiated actions. Overall, our findings indicate that movement-related predictive processes attenuate early visual responses. Moreover, we propose that amplitude modulations in the P1 time range reflect the interaction between expectation-based SA and attention-associated amplitude enhancements. These results can have implications for assessing the influence of action-associated predictions on visual processing in psychiatric disorders characterized by aberrant sensory predictions and alterations in hemispheric asymmetry, such as schizophrenia.

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Action‐associated modulation of visual event‐related potentials evoked by abstract and ecological stimuli

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“…Studies investigating action‐related auditory ERP attenuation generally assume that actions are invariant irrespective of their action effects (Horváth, ). While reproducing the well‐known N1 and P2 attenuation effects, the present experiment revealed action‐effect‐related differences in movement parameters, which is not consistent with this assumption.…”

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Consequences matter: Self‐induced tones are used as feedback to optimize tone‐eliciting actions

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Horváth

2017

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Experimental paradigms investigating the processing of self-induced stimuli are often based on the implicit assumption that motor processes are invariable regardless of their consequences: It is presumed that actions with different sets of predictable sensory consequences do not differ in their physical characteristics or in their brain signal reflections. The present experiment explored this assumption in the context of action-related auditory attenuation by comparing actions (pinches) with and without auditory consequences. The results show that motor processes are not invariable: Pinches eliciting a tone were softer than pinches without auditory effects. This indicates that self-induced auditory stimuli are not perceived as irrelevant side effects: The tones are used as feedback to optimize the tone-eliciting actions. The comparison of ERPs related to actions with different physical parameters (strong and soft pinches) revealed a significant ERP difference in the time range of the action-related N1 attenuation (strong pinches resulted in more negative amplitudes), suggesting that a motor correction bias may contribute to this auditory ERP attenuation effect, which is usually attributed to action-related predictive processes.

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“…The auditory N1 component is linked to the sensory processing of acoustic information and is generated by primary auditory regions (Näätänen & Winkler, ). Its amplitude is attenuated or suppressed during auditory production (Horváth, ). Reduced N1 suppression following altered auditory feedback pitches suggests that performers may have identified the altered pitches as nonself‐generated, and then began to perceive subsequent feedback as if it were generated by an external sound source rather than by their own movements.…”

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“…Neural mechanisms underlying disruptive effects of altered auditory feedback on music performance remain largely unexplored; to our knowledge, no studies in the domains of speech or music production have examined neural responses to altered pitch feedback that matches future sequence positions. We propose that the auditory N1 ERP component, elicited about 100 ms following auditory onsets, could serve as a marker for the sensory processing of altered auditory feedback during production (Horváth, ). Amplitudes of the N1 component elicited by auditory onsets are decreased when sounds are self‐generated compared to nonself‐generated in button‐pressing tasks (Aliu, Houde, & Nagarajan, ; Baess, Horváth, Jacobsen, & Schröger, ; Bendixen, SanMiguel, & Schröger, ), and self‐generated speech elicits suppressed N1 responses compared to nonself‐generated speech (Christoffels, van de Ven, Waldorp, Formisano, & Schiller, ).…”

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Auditory N1 reveals planning and monitoring processes during music performance

2016

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The current study investigated the relationship between planning processes and feedback monitoring during music performance, a complex task in which performers prepare upcoming events while monitoring their sensory outcomes. Theories of action planning in auditory-motor production tasks propose that the planning of future events co-occurs with the perception of auditory feedback. This study investigated the neural correlates of planning and feedback monitoring by manipulating the contents of auditory feedback during music performance. Pianists memorized and performed melodies at a cued tempo in a synchronization-continuation task while the EEG was recorded. During performance, auditory feedback associated with single melody tones was occasionally substituted with tones corresponding to future (next), present (current), or past (previous) melody tones. Only future-oriented altered feedback disrupted behavior: Future-oriented feedback caused pianists to slow down on the subsequent tone more than past-oriented feedback, and amplitudes of the auditory N1 potential elicited by the tone immediately following the altered feedback were larger for future-oriented than for past-oriented or noncontextual (unrelated) altered feedback; larger N1 amplitudes were associated with greater slowing following altered feedback in the future condition only. Feedback-related negativities were elicited in all altered feedback conditions. In sum, behavioral and neural evidence suggests that future-oriented feedback disrupts performance more than past-oriented feedback, consistent with planning theories that posit similarity-based interference between feedback and planning contents. Neural sensory processing of auditory feedback, reflected in the N1 ERP, may serve as a marker for temporal disruption caused by altered auditory feedback in auditory-motor production tasks.

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Action-related auditory ERP attenuation: Paradigms and hypotheses

Cited by 104 publications

References 112 publications

Action‐associated modulation of visual event‐related potentials evoked by abstract and ecological stimuli

Action‐associated modulation of visual event‐related potentials evoked by abstract and ecological stimuli

Consequences matter: Self‐induced tones are used as feedback to optimize tone‐eliciting actions

Auditory N1 reveals planning and monitoring processes during music performance

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