The critical role of the inferior frontal cortex in establishing a prediction model for generating subsequent mismatch negativity (MMN): A TMS-EEG study

Lui, Troby Ka-Yan; Shum, Yu-Hei; Xiao, Xinyu; Wang, Yan; Cheung, Alexandra T.‐C.; Chan, Sandra S. M.; Neggers, Sebastiaan F. W.; Tse, Chun‐Yu

doi:10.1016/j.brs.2020.12.005

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“…For the low racial essentialism group, vMMN was only observed to the Eastern deviant with high cultural relevance ( t (19) = − 3.67, p < 0.001, d = − 0.82), but not to the Eastern deviant with high cultural relevance, or the Western deviants with high or low cultural relevance ( ts (19) = − 1.02 to 1.55, ps = 0.16 to 0.48, ds = 0.018 to − 0.23). The effect sizes of the vMMNs ranged from − 0.44 to − 0.82, which were similar to the vMMNs that were calculated with properly controlled standards or control stimuli and elicited by abstract deviants 18 , 37 , 45 . A larger MMN effect size could be observed if the MMN was contaminated by the brain responses to the physical differences between the deviant and standard and/or the adaptation confound.…”

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“…Deviance in simple physical properties (e.g., color, orientation) typically elicited an early mismatch response (< 200 ms) with right posterior scalp distribution, while deviance in abstract properties (e.g., semantics) elicited vMMNs with a delayed latency (around 400 ms) and a central scalp distribution 18 , 32 – 34 (see 35 , 36 for an alternative view). The differences of the vMMN latencies and scalp distributions in detecting abstract versus physical changes were related to increases in the complexity of cognitive processing and overall frontal cortex activities, as well as differences in the dynamics of the frontal-sensory cortical network 18 , 25 , 37 .…”

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Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

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The dynamic multicultural view explains culture-specific effects on cognition that cultural knowledge is organized in multiple knowledge systems which are specific to each culture and differentially activated when exposed to related objects or scenes. This view predicts automatic categorizations of environmental information according to the culture-specific knowledge systems. This study investigated whether cultural information could be spontaneously categorized, and the modulation of this process by the belief in the biological origin of race (i.e., racial essentialism) with an event-related brain potential, the visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN). Deviant pictures of Eastern (Western) culture were randomly presented in a stream of standard Western (Eastern) pictures while participants were playing a video game. Participants who endorse racial essentialism (high group) showed vMMNs to the deviants with high relevance to the Eastern or Western culture and the deviant with low Eastern relevance; while participants with low racial essentialism showed vMMN to the deviant with high Eastern relevance only. These results revealed spontaneous cultural categorization with vMMN and the top-down modulation of spontaneous categorization by personal belief. In addition, this is the first demonstration of MMNs to cultural deviance and the potentials in applying MMNs to study psychological essentialism and social categorization.

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Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

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“…Also, the current auditory cortex model is by no means complete. It lacks input from, for example, the inferior frontal cortex (IFC), which is known to contribute to the MMN response generated in auditory cortex (e.g., Rinne et al, 2005;Tse et al, 2018;Lui et al, 2021). The simulations can be taken as a demonstration that the "local" processing happening in auditory cortex is sufficient for the generation of MMN.…”

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The Adaptation Model Offers a Challenge for the Predictive Coding Account of Mismatch Negativity

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An unpredictable stimulus elicits a stronger event-related response than a high-probability stimulus. This differential in response magnitude is termed the mismatch negativity (MMN). Over the past decade, it has become increasingly popular to explain the MMN terms of predictive coding, a proposed general principle for the way the brain realizes Bayesian inference when it interprets sensory information. This perspective article is a reminder that the issue of MMN generation is far from settled, and that an alternative model in terms of adaptation continues to lurk in the wings. The adaptation model has been discounted because of the unrealistic and simplistic fashion in which it tends to be set up. Here, simulations of auditory cortex incorporating a modern version of the adaptation model are presented. These show that locally operating short-term synaptic depression accounts both for adaptation due to stimulus repetition and for MMN responses. This happens even in cases where adaptation has been ruled out as an explanation of the MMN (e.g., in the stimulus omission paradigm and the multi-standard control paradigm). Simulation models that would demonstrate the viability of predictive coding in a similarly multifaceted way are currently missing from the literature, and the reason for this is discussed in light of the current results.

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“…While the standing traveling wave-like results in A-HER imply that the response of A-HER may be composed of the propagation of signals from at least two brain sources. Inspired by MMN ( Doeller et al, 2003; Garrido et al, 2008; Tse et al, 2006 ), the two possible brain sources would be Heschl’s gyrus located in the posterior portion of the STG as the primary auditory area, and the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which is involved in establishing a prediction model for detecting unexpected changes ( Lui et al, 2021 ). One counterargument against this propagation model is that if A-SSR adheres to this propagation law, a propagation time of around 40ms from a peak at Oz (180ms) to a peak at FCz (217ms) appears relatively sluggish.…”

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Auditory High Entropy Response (A-HER): A Novel Paradigm for Studying Brain Processing of Uncertain Information

Liang,

Zhu,

Zhang

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This paper introduces a novel experimental paradigm - Auditory High Entropy Response (A-HER), which maximizes the information entropy of auditory stimulus sequences. This allows us to study how the brain processes complex information, rather than isolated individual events. Our analysis of the frequency response of the frontal theta rhythm induced by A-HER indicated a significant increase in signal-to-noise ratio and repeatability compared to zero-entropy Auditory Steady-State Response (A-SSR) and low-entropy mismatch negativity (MMN). We further investigated whether the A-HER response was induced by stimulus sequence differences or uncertainty, and studied its propagation rules. Different principles between evoked and entrained were found in A-HER and A-SSR. In conclusion, the A-HER paradigm, by maximizing stimulus sequence uncertainty, offers a new approach to analyzing how the brain processes uncertain information. It has potential for diagnosing and researching neurological and mental diseases, and for brain-computer interfaces, thus potentially impacting neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology.

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The critical role of the inferior frontal cortex in establishing a prediction model for generating subsequent mismatch negativity (MMN): A TMS-EEG study

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Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

The Adaptation Model Offers a Challenge for the Predictive Coding Account of Mismatch Negativity

Auditory High Entropy Response (A-HER): A Novel Paradigm for Studying Brain Processing of Uncertain Information

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