Neural interactions within and beyond the critical band elicited by two simultaneously presented narrow band noises: a magnetoencephalographic study

Neuroscience
Hidehiko OkamotoChristo Pantev

Abstract

Neural activities elicited in the auditory system are systematically organized according to the frequency characteristics of corresponding sound inputs. This systematic frequency alignment, called 'tonotopy,' plays an important role in auditory perception. By means of magnetoencephalography (MEG) we investigated here interactions between neural groups activated by two simultaneously presented narrow-band noises (NBNs) within the human cortical tonotopic map. Auditory evoked fields indicated that the neural interactions activated by these NBNs depended on the frequency difference between them: the amplitude of the N1m-response systematically increased with increasing frequency difference between the NBNs until the critical bandwidth was reached. In contrast, the N1m decreased with frequency difference exceeding the critical bandwidth. The different N1m-response patterns within and beyond the critical band seem to result from the combination of inhibitory and excitatory neural processes in the auditory pathway and may contribute to the perception of complex sound patterns like speech and music.

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