You can't stop the music: Reduced auditory alpha power and coupling between auditory and memory regions facilitate the illusory perception of music during noise
Müller N, Keil J, Obleser J, Schulz H, Grunwald T, Bernays RL, Huppertz HJ, Weisz N (2013)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2013
Journal
Book Volume: 79
Pages Range: 383-393
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.001
Abstract
Our brain has the capacity of providing an experience of hearing even in the absence of auditory stimulation. This can be seen as illusory conscious perception. While increasing evidence postulates that conscious perception requires specific brain states that systematically relate to specific patterns of oscillatory activity, the relationship between auditory illusions and oscillatory activity remains mostly unexplained. To investigate this we recorded brain activity with magnetoencephalography and collected intracranial data from epilepsy patients while participants listened to familiar as well as unknown music that was partly replaced by sections of pink noise. We hypothesized that participants have a stronger experience of hearing music throughout noise when the noise sections are embedded in familiar compared to unfamiliar music. This was supported by the behavioral results showing that participants rated the perception of music during noise as stronger when noise was presented in a familiar context. Time-frequency data show that the illusory perception of music is associated with a decrease in auditory alpha power pointing to increased auditory cortex excitability. Furthermore, the right auditory cortex is concurrently synchronized with the medial temporal lobe, putatively mediating memory aspects associated with the music illusion. We thus assume that neuronal activity in the highly excitable auditory cortex is shaped through extensive communication between the auditory cortex and the medial temporal lobe, thereby generating the illusion of hearing music during noise. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
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Schweizerisches Epilepsie-Zentrum
Switzerland (CH)
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany (DE)
Universität Konstanz
Germany (DE)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften / Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Germany (DE)
Università degli Studi di Trento
Italy (IT)
Switzerland (CH)
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany (DE)
Universität Konstanz
Germany (DE)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften / Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Germany (DE)
Università degli Studi di Trento
Italy (IT)
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APA:
Müller, N., Keil, J., Obleser, J., Schulz, H., Grunwald, T., Bernays, R.-L.,... Weisz, N. (2013). You can't stop the music: Reduced auditory alpha power and coupling between auditory and memory regions facilitate the illusory perception of music during noise. NeuroImage, 79, 383-393. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.001
MLA:
Müller, Nadia, et al. "You can't stop the music: Reduced auditory alpha power and coupling between auditory and memory regions facilitate the illusory perception of music during noise." NeuroImage 79 (2013): 383-393.
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