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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Auditory Perception
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Listeners use internal models to process auditory information in noisy environments.
  • It is unclear if auditory gaps are filled predictively or restored after the fact.
  • Previous research lacked evidence that internal models influence brain activity like real sounds.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neurophysiological effects of internal models on auditory perception.
  • To determine if brain responses to omitted sounds can be predicted by responses to real sounds.
  • To analyze electrophysiological responses (ERPs) to auditory omissions using neuroimaging.

Main Methods:

  • Decoding single-trial electrophysiological responses to omitted tones from responses to real tones.
  • Analyzing ERPs to omissions using data-driven electrical neuroimaging.
  • Examining passive and active listening conditions with rule-based tone sequences.

Main Results:

  • Brain responses to expected but omitted tones were decodable above chance in active listening.
  • Internal models generated distinct electrophysiological activity, modulated by attention, even without auditory stimulation.
  • Activity in left posterior temporal areas was modulated by expected pitch changes in omitted tones.

Conclusions:

  • Internal models can shape brain activity similarly to real sounds, even in the absence of stimulation.
  • Auditory filling-in phenomena can be explained by predictive processing.
  • This study provides evidence for predictive accounts of auditory gap filling.