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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Will Sedley, Dr Sukhbinder Kumar, Tobias Overath, Professor Tim GriffithsORCiD
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We have previously used direct electrode recordings in two human subjects to identify neural correlates of the perception of pitch (Griffiths, Kumar, Sedley et al., Direct recordings of pitch responses from human auditory cortex, Curr. Biol. 22 (2010), pp. 1128-1132). The present study was carried out to assess virtual-electrode measures of pitch perception based on non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG). We recorded pitch responses in 13 healthy volunteers using a passive listening paradigm and the same pitch-evoking stimuli (regular interval noise; RIN) as in the previous study. Source activity was reconstructed using a beamformer approach, which was used to place virtual electrodes in auditory cortex. Time-frequency decomposition of these data revealed oscillatory responses to pitch in the gamma frequency band to occur, in Heschl's gyrus, from 60 Hz upwards. Direct comparison of these pitch responses to the previous depth electrode recordings shows a striking congruence in terms of spectrotemporal profile and anatomical distribution. These findings provide further support that auditory high gamma oscillations occur in association with RIN pitch stimuli, and validate the use of MEG to assess neural correlates of normal and abnormal pitch perception. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Sedley W, Teki S, Kumar S, Overath T, Barnes GR, Griffiths TD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: NeuroImage
Year: 2012
Volume: 59
Issue: 2
Pages: 1904-1911
Print publication date: 07/09/2011
ISSN (print): 1053-8119
ISSN (electronic): 1095-9572
Publisher: Academic Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.098
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.098
PubMed id: PMC3236996
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