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Lecaignard F, Bertrand O, Gimenez G, et al. Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy. Front Hum Neurosci. 2015;9:505doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505.
Lecaignard, F., Bertrand, O., Gimenez, G., Mattout, J., & Caclin, A. (2015). Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 9505. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505
Lecaignard, Françoise, et al. "Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy." Frontiers in human neuroscience vol. 9 (2015): 505. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505
Lecaignard F, Bertrand O, Gimenez G, Mattout J, Caclin A. Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy. Front Hum Neurosci. 2015 Sep 16;9:505. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26441602; PMCID: PMC4584941.
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Front Hum Neurosci. 2015 Sep 16;9:505. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505. eCollection 2015.

Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Françoise Lecaignard, Olivier Bertrand, Gérard Gimenez, Jérémie Mattout, Anne Caclin

Affiliations

  1. Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France ; MEG Department, CERMEP Imaging Center Lyon, France.
  2. Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CRNL, INSERM, U1028 - CNRS, UMR5292, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team Lyon, France ; University Lyon 1 Lyon, France.
  3. MEG Department, CERMEP Imaging Center Lyon, France.

PMID: 26441602 PMCID: PMC4584941 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00505

Abstract

Deviant stimuli, violating regularities in a sensory environment, elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN), largely described in the Event-Related Potential literature. While it is widely accepted that the MMN reflects more than basic change detection, a comprehensive description of mental processes modulating this response is still lacking. Within the framework of predictive coding, deviance processing is part of an inference process where prediction errors (the mismatch between incoming sensations and predictions established through experience) are minimized. In this view, the MMN is a measure of prediction error, which yields specific expectations regarding its modulations by various experimental factors. In particular, it predicts that the MMN should decrease as the occurrence of a deviance becomes more predictable. We conducted a passive oddball EEG study and manipulated the predictability of sound sequences by means of different temporal structures. Importantly, our design allows comparing mismatch responses elicited by predictable and unpredictable violations of a simple repetition rule and therefore departs from previous studies that investigate violations of different time-scale regularities. We observed a decrease of the MMN with predictability and interestingly, a similar effect at earlier latencies, within 70 ms after deviance onset. Following these pre-attentive responses, a reduced P3a was measured in the case of predictable deviants. We conclude that early and late deviance responses reflect prediction errors, triggering belief updating within the auditory hierarchy. Beside, in this passive study, such perceptual inference appears to be modulated by higher-level implicit learning of sequence statistical structures. Our findings argue for a hierarchical model of auditory processing where predictive coding enables implicit extraction of environmental regularities.

Keywords: EEG; P3a; auditory regularity; early deviance response; mismatch negativity; predictive coding

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