Attentional modulation of the mismatch negativity elicited by frequency differences between binaurally presented tone bursts

Trejo, Leonard J.; Ryan-Jones, David L.; Kramer, Arthur F.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb01214.x

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“…Our finding of a relatively smaller MMN response in the difficult task is consistent with previous accounts of this component's susceptibility to attentional manipulation (Alain & Woods, 1997;Trejo et al, 1995;Woldorff et al, 1991). Our findings of enhanced N1 and P3a components with higher task difficulty also fit with previous attention research.…”

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Attentional Modulation in the Detection of Irrelevant Deviance: A Simultaneous ERP/fMRI Study

Sabri

Liebenthal

Waldron

et al. 2006

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Little is known about the neural mechanisms that control attentional modulation of deviance detection in the auditory modality. In this study, we manipulated the difficulty of a primary task to test the relation between task difficulty and the detection of infrequent, task-irrelevant deviant (D) tones (1300 Hz) presented among repetitive standard (S) tones (1000 Hz). Simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)/event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 21 subjects performing a two-alternative forced-choice duration discrimination task (short and long tones of equal probability). The duration of the short tone was always 50 msec. The duration of the long tone was 100 msec in the easy task and 60 msec in the difficult task. As expected, response accuracy decreased and response time (RT) increased in the difficult compared with the easy task. Performance was also poorer for D than for S tones, indicating distraction by task-irrelevant frequency information on trials involving D tones. In the difficult task, an amplitude increase was observed in the difference waves for N1 and P3a, ERP components associated with increased attention to deviant sounds. The mismatch negativity (MMN) response, associated with passive deviant detection, was larger in the easy task, demonstrating the susceptibility of this component to attentional manipulations. The fMRI contrast D > S in the difficult task revealed activation on the right superior temporal gyrus (STG) and extending ventrally into the superior temporal sulcus, suggesting this region's involvement in involuntary attention shifting toward unattended, infrequent sounds. Conversely, passive deviance detection, as reflected by the MMN, was associated with more dorsal activation on the STG. These results are consistent with the view that the dorsal STG region is responsive to mismatches between the memory trace of the standard and the incoming deviant sound, whereas the ventral STG region is activated by involuntary shifts of attention to task-irrelevant auditory features.

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“…Nevertheless, several lines of evidence suggest that this component is susceptible to attentional manipulation. For example, the MMN is attenuated in amplitude when subjects are engaged in a more demanding task compared with a control task (e.g., Alain & Woods, 1997;Trejo, Ryan-Jones, & Kramer, 1995;Woldorff, Hackley, & Hillyard, 1991).…”

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Attentional Modulation in the Detection of Irrelevant Deviance: A Simultaneous ERP/fMRI Study

Sabri

Liebenthal

Waldron

et al. 2006

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Focusing one's attention on sounds presented to one ear and detecting infrequent deviants among them attenuates the MMN amplitude to similar deviants in the other ear (Näätänen, Paavilainen, Tiitinen, Jiang, & Alho, 1993;Treijo, Ryan-Jones, & Kramer, 1995;Woldorff, Hackley, & Hillyard, 1991;Woldorff, Hillyard, Gallen, Hampson, & Bloom, 1998). However, in the absence of such competition (e.g., when the attended and ignored deviations are different), MMN is not affected by attention manipulations (Sussman, Winkler, & Wang, in press).…”

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Preattentive auditory context effects

Winkler

Sussman

Tervaniemi

et al. 2003

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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The effects of auditory context on the preattentive and perceptual organization of tone sequences were investigated.Two sets of experiments were conducted in which the pitch of contextual tones was varied, bringing about two different contextual manipulations. Preattentive auditory organization was indexed by the mismatch negativity event-related potential, which is elicited by violations of auditory regularities even when participants ignore the sounds (e.g., by reading a book). The perceptual effects of the contextual manipulations on auditory grouping were assessed using target-detection and orderjudgment tasks. The close correspondence found between the effects of auditory context on the perceptual and preattentive measures of auditory grouping suggests that a large part of contextual processing is preattentive.

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“…The MMN amplitude in the unattended channel can be, however, attenuated under some conditions by strongly focusing attention on other sources of auditory stimulation (Näätänen, 1991;Näätänen, Paavilainen, Tiitinen, Jiang, & Alho, 1993;Oades & Dittmannbalcar, 1995;Trejo, Ryan-Jones, & Kramer, 1995;Woldorff, Hackley, & Hillyard, 1991).…”

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Neural Mechanisms of Involuntary Attention to Acoustic Novelty and Change

Escera

Alho

Winkler

et al. 1998

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstractn Behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures were used to elucidate the neural mechanisms of involuntary engagement of attention by novelty and change in the acoustic environment. The behavioral measures consisted of the reaction time (RT) and performance accuracy (hit rate) in a forcedchoice visual RT task where subjects were to discriminate between odd and even numbers. Each visual stimulus was preceded by an irrelevant auditory stimulus, which was randomly either a "standard" tone (80%), a slightly, higher "deviant" tone (10%), or a natural, "novel" sound (10%). Novel sounds prolonged the RT to successive visual stimuli by 17 msec as compared with the RT to visual stimuli that followed standard tones. Deviant tones, in turn, decreased the hit rate but did not signi cantly affect the RT. In the ERPs to deviant tones, the mismatch negativity (MMN), peaking at 150 msec, and a second negativity, peaking at 400 msec, could be observed. Novel sounds elicited an enhanced N1, with a probable overlap by the MMN, and a large positive P3a response with two different subcomponents: an early centrally dominant P3a, peaking at 230 msec, and a late P3a, peaking at 315 msec with a right-frontal scalp maximum. The present results suggest the involvement of two different neural mechanisms in triggering involuntary attention to acoustic novelty and change: a transient-detector mechanism activated by novel sounds and re ected in the N1 and a stimulus-change detector mechanism activated by deviant tones and novel sounds and re ected in the MMN. The observed differential distracting effects by slightly deviant tones and widely deviant novel sounds support the notion of two separate mechanisms of involuntary attention. n

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Attentional modulation of the mismatch negativity elicited by frequency differences between binaurally presented tone bursts

Cited by 85 publications

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Attentional Modulation in the Detection of Irrelevant Deviance: A Simultaneous ERP/fMRI Study

Attentional Modulation in the Detection of Irrelevant Deviance: A Simultaneous ERP/fMRI Study

Preattentive auditory context effects

Neural Mechanisms of Involuntary Attention to Acoustic Novelty and Change

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