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Prog Neurobiol. 2020 Aug 01;101887. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101887. Epub 2020 Aug 01.

Using high spatial resolution fMRI to understand representation in the auditory network.

Progress in neurobiology

Michelle Moerel, Essa Yacoub, Omer Faruk Gulban, Agustin Lage-Castellanos, Federico De Martino

Affiliations

  1. Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (MBIC), Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (MBIC), Maastricht, the Netherlands; Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Brain Innovation B.V., Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  4. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (MBIC), Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department of NeuroInformatics, Cuban Center for Neuroscience, Cuba. Electronic address: [email protected].
  5. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Maastricht Brain Imaging Center (MBIC), Maastricht, the Netherlands; Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 32745500 PMCID: PMC7854960 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101887

Abstract

Following rapid methodological advances, ultra-high field (UHF) functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been repeatedly and successfully used for the investigation of the human auditory system in recent years. Here, we review this work and argue that UHF MRI is uniquely suited to shed light on how sounds are represented throughout the network of auditory brain regions. That is, the provided gain in spatial resolution at UHF can be used to study the functional role of the small subcortical auditory processing stages and details of cortical processing. Further, by combining high spatial resolution with the versatility of MRI contrasts, UHF MRI has the potential to localize the primary auditory cortex in individual hemispheres. This is a prerequisite to study how sound representation in higher-level auditory cortex evolves from that in early (primary) auditory cortex. Finally, the access to independent signals across auditory cortical depths, as afforded by UHF, may reveal the computations that underlie the emergence of an abstract, categorical sound representation based on low-level acoustic feature processing. Efforts on these research topics are underway. Here we discuss promises as well as challenges that come with studying these research questions using UHF MRI, and provide a future outlook.

Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Auditory system; Laminar fMRI; Sound representation; Subcortical processing; Ultra-high field MRI

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