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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatric Research

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  • Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a neural response to auditory prediction errors.
  • Reduced MMN amplitude is a consistent finding in schizophrenia, suggesting impaired prediction-error signaling.
  • Understanding factors influencing MMN in healthy individuals is crucial for interpreting MMN deficits in clinical populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate factors influencing MMN amplitude in healthy individuals.
  • To determine if MMN amplitude accurately reflects auditory transition statistics.
  • To examine the role of order-driven biases and top-down expectations on MMN generation.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted using auditory oddball paradigms in healthy participants.
  • Study 1 assessed MMN response to sequences with varying transition probabilities.
  • Study 2 examined the persistence of order-driven biases in MMN generation over repeated exposures.

Main Results:

  • MMN amplitude did not consistently reflect the actual transition statistics of auditory sequences.
  • An order-driven bias significantly influenced MMN amplitude, irrespective of statistical regularities.
  • This bias persisted even after repeated exposure to the sound sequences.

Conclusions:

  • Factors influencing MMN size in non-clinical populations are not fully understood.
  • MMN generation is susceptible to order-driven biases, challenging its interpretation solely as a statistical error signal.
  • Top-down expectations appear to play a significant role in auditory relevance filtering, impacting MMN.