Top-down controlled and bottom-up triggered orienting of auditory attention to pitch activate overlapping brain networks

Alho, Kimmo; Salmi, Juha; Koistinen, Sonja; Salonen, Oili; Rinne, Teemu

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.050

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“…This region is part of the dorsal frontoparietal attention network and is assumed to be involved in voluntarily directing auditory attention to sound sources [Hill and Miller, 2010;Smith et al, 2010]. Our findings of change-induced responses in parts of both the ventral and dorsal attention networks is in line with previous data showing joint activations of networks during stimulusdriven reorienting of attention [Alho et al, 2014;Thiel et al, 2004]. So far, there is mixed evidence whether signal processing in the ventral attention network precedes activity in dorsal network and thus initiates the reorienting process [for a review on this issue see Corbetta et al, 2008].…”

Section: Activation Spread Of Change-induced Activity Following Initisupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Please note, though, that while previous experiments also found increased responses to taskirrelevant stimuli within regions of the central executive network, presumably reflecting response inhibition and performance monitoring, the insula was commonly reported to be more activated when processing relevant target stimuli [Downar et al, 2001;Kiehl et al, 2001;Kim, 2014]. Other fMRI experiments which used physically identical sounds with differing relevance, as we did here, however also failed to observe increased insula activity to relevant response targets, suggesting that this effect is modulated by stimulus characteristics [Alho et al, 2014;Salmi et al, 2009]. Furthermore, in contrast to some prior studies, which found increased auditory cortex activity following relevant as compared with irrelevant changes in auditory input, we here did not observe any differences in auditory sensory regions [Kiehl et al, 2001;Ross et al, 2010;Salmi et al, 2009].…”

Section: Effects Of Task Relevancecontrasting

confidence: 57%

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Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of processing task‐relevant and task‐irrelevant sound feature changes using concurrent EEG‐fMRI

Puschmann

Huster

Thiel

2016

Human Brain Mapping

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The cortical processing of changes in auditory input involves auditory sensory regions as well as different frontoparietal brain networks. The spatiotemporal dynamics of the activation spread across these networks has, however, not been investigated in detail so far. We here approached this issue using concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), providing us with simultaneous information on both the spatial and temporal patterns of change‐related activity. We applied an auditory stimulus categorization task with switching categorization rules, allowing to analyze change‐related responses as a function of the changing sound feature (pitch or duration) and the task relevance of the change. Our data show the successive progression of change‐related activity from regions involved in early change detection to the ventral and dorsal attention networks, and finally the central executive network. While early change detection was found to recruit feature‐specific networks involving auditory sensory but also frontal and parietal brain regions, the later spread of activity across the frontoparietal attention and executive networks was largely independent of the changing sound feature, suggesting the existence of a general feature‐independent processing pathway of change‐related information. Task relevance did not modulate early auditory sensory processing, but was mainly found to affect processing in frontal brain regions. Hum Brain Mapp 37:3400–3416, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: Activation Spread Of Change-induced Activity Following Initisupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Effects Of Task Relevancecontrasting

confidence: 57%

Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of processing task‐relevant and task‐irrelevant sound feature changes using concurrent EEG‐fMRI

Puschmann

Huster

Thiel

2016

Human Brain Mapping

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“…The neural activation pattern instead supports more general attentional models that promote functional overlap for these networks (Salmi et al, 2009; Macaluso and Doricchi, 2013; Alho et al, 2015) rather than models which suggest that the networks differ (ventral: stimulus-driven; dorsal: goal-directed) in their specific attentional orienting functions (Corbetta and Shulman, 2011; Vossel et al, 2014). Importantly, these results may be linked to the modality of stimulus presentation, with previous fMRI studies suggesting that activation of the frontoparietal networks may be more similar for both top-down and bottom-up orienting in the auditory relative to the visual modality (Salmi et al, 2007, 2009; Alho et al, 2015) as well as between the auditory and visual modalities (Shomstein and Yantis, 2004; Yang and Mayer, 2014). However, to truly comprehend the extent of these modality activation differences in exogenous orienting, it is necessary to include both visual and auditory stimuli for direct comparisons.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 64%

From Behavioral Facilitation to Inhibition: The Neuronal Correlates of the Orienting and Reorienting of Auditory Attention

Hanlon

Dodd

Ling

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Successful adaptive behavior relies on the ability to automatically (bottom-up) orient attention to different locations in the environment. This results in a biphasic pattern in which reaction times (RT) are faster for stimuli that occur in the same spatial location (valid) for the first few hundred milliseconds, which is termed facilitation. This is followed by faster RT for stimuli that appear in novel locations (invalid) after longer delays, termed inhibition of return. The neuronal areas and networks involved in the transition between states of facilitation and inhibition remain poorly understood, especially for auditory stimuli. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were therefore collected in a large sample of healthy volunteers (N = 52) at four separate auditory stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs; 200, 400, 600, and 800 ms). Behavioral results indicated that facilitation (valid RT < invalid RT) occurred at the 200 ms SOA, with inhibition of return (valid RT > invalid RT) present at the three longer SOAs. fMRI results showed several brain areas varying their activation as a function of SOA, including bilateral superior temporal gyrus, anterior thalamus, cuneus, dorsal anterior cingulate gyrus, and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC)/anterior insula. Right VLPFC was active during a behavioral state of facilitation, and its activation (invalid – valid trials) further correlated with behavioral reorienting at the 200 ms delay. These results suggest that right VLPFC plays a critical role when auditory attention must be quickly deployed or redeployed, demanding heightened cognitive and inhibitory control. In contrast to previous work, the ventral and dorsal frontoparietal attention networks were both active during valid and invalid trials across SOAs. These results suggest that the dorsal and ventral networks may not be as specialized during bottom-up auditory orienting as has been previously reported during visual orienting.

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“…These regions are part of the well-established ventral BU attentional network observed in fMRI (e.g. Salmi et al, 2009; Alho et al, 2014; Salo et al, 2017; Long and Kuhl, 2018) and electrophysiological (e.g. Ahveninen et al, 2013) studies.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Age-Related Modulations of Alpha and Gamma Brain Activities Underlying Anticipation and Distraction

ElShafei

Fornoni

Bertrand

et al. 2018

Preprint

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Attention operates through top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) mechanisms. Recently, it has been shown that slow (alpha) frequencies index facilitatory and suppressive mechanisms of TD attention and faster (gamma) frequencies signal BU attentional capture. Ageing is characterized by increased behavioral distractibility, resulting from either a reduced efficiency of TD attention or an enhanced triggering of BU attention. However, only few studies have investigated the impact of ageing upon the oscillatory activities involved in TD and BU attention. MEG data were collected from 14 elderly and 14 matched young healthy human participants while performing the Competitive Attention Task. Elderly participants displayed (1) exacerbated behavioral distractibility, (2) altered TD suppressive mechanisms, indexed by a reduced alpha synchronization in task-irrelevant regions, (3) less prominent alpha peak-frequency differences between cortical regions, (4) a similar BU system activation indexed by gamma activity, and (5) a reduced activation of lateral prefrontal inhibitory control regions. These results show that the ageing-related increased distractibility is of TD origin.

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Top-down controlled and bottom-up triggered orienting of auditory attention to pitch activate overlapping brain networks

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of processing task‐relevant and task‐irrelevant sound feature changes using concurrent EEG‐fMRI

Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of processing task‐relevant and task‐irrelevant sound feature changes using concurrent EEG‐fMRI

From Behavioral Facilitation to Inhibition: The Neuronal Correlates of the Orienting and Reorienting of Auditory Attention

Age-Related Modulations of Alpha and Gamma Brain Activities Underlying Anticipation and Distraction

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