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Functional anatomy of human auditory attention studied with PET

Tzourio, N., El Massioui, F., Crivello, F., Joliot, M., Renault, B., Mazoyer, B.·1997·NeuroImage
DOI 10.1006/nimg.1996.0252
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Positron emission tomography was used to investigate the functional anatomy of selective auditory attention in 17 right-handed male volunteers who submitted to different tasks: silent rest (REST) listening to frequent low- or rare high-pitched tones (LIS) delivered randomly to the right or the left ear, selective auditory attention where subjects had to attend to deviants in one ear, right (ATTR) or left (ATTL). Six subjects had the series REST, LIS, ATTR twice, eight subjects the series REST, LIS, ATTL, and the last three subjects the sereis REST, ATTR, ATTL. Event-related potentials were simultaneously recorded with PET and showed significant task and electrode site effects on the N100 amplitude. When compared to REST, LIS elicited bilateral temporal activations of the Heschl's gyri and the planum temporale, with a significant rightward asymmetry, and of the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus. Significant right precentral and anterior cingulate gyri normalized regional cerebral blood flow increases were observed in the frontal lobe. Both the ATTR and the ATTL conditions, compared to LIS, activated the supplementary motor area, bilateral precentral, and left postcentral cortices without any temporal cortex activation. In addition, the ATTL condition resulted in a right prefrontal cortex activation. Pooling the 14 subjects revealed an asymmetry in the superior temporal gyrus favoring the cortex contralateral to the attended ear. Two major networks seem thus to be involved during selective auditory attention: (1) a local temporal network, on which selective attention produces a modulation of the functional lateralization, and (2) a frontal network that could mediate the temporal cortex modulation by attention.

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Authors
Tzourio, N., El Massioui, F., Crivello, F., Joliot, M., Renault, B., & Mazoyer, B.
Affiliations
  • Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Mazoyer, B.
ORCID
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1997-01
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
63-77
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1006/nimg.1996.0252
OpenAlex
W2128218156
Cited by
212
References
66
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
Keywords
auditory selective attention, functional anatomy, hemispheric lateralization, superior temporal gyrus, planum temporale, Heschl's gyrus, N1 component, deviance detection, supplementary motor area, prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, regional cerebral blood flow, auditory cortex
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Dichotic Listening Tests, Dominance, Cerebral, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Male, Nerve Net, Reference Values, Regional Blood Flow, Temporal Lobe, Tomography, Emission-Computed

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