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  • Neuroimaging
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Human Brain Mapping

Background:

  • Traditional neuroimaging studies of auditory cortex rely on group analyses, potentially obscuring individual differences.
  • Understanding the functional organization of the human superior temporal cortex (STC) is crucial for auditory processing research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To map auditory areas in the human STC using individual-specific functional network parcellations.
  • To investigate the reliability and variability of these parcellations across individuals and sessions.
  • To determine if individual-specific parcellations better represent auditory function compared to group-level analyses.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 1-mm isotropic resolution 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 30 participants.
  • Employed functional network analysis on resting-state and auditory/audiovisual speech localizer fMRI data.
  • Generated and evaluated functional network-based parcellations, selecting solutions with 4, 6, and 11 networks based on Dice and Silhouette values.

Main Results:

  • Auditory cortex parcellations demonstrated high intraindividual reproducibility (Dice: 69-78% resting-state, 62-73% resting-state vs. task).
  • Interindividual variability in parcellations was significantly greater than intraindividual variability (Dice: 57-68%).
  • Individual-specific parcellations showed superior alignment with task response topographies and higher connectional homogeneity, outperforming group-level approaches.

Conclusions:

  • Functional network-based parcellations reliably segment auditory areas in the STC at the individual level.
  • Individual-specific parcellations capture meaningful idiosyncrasies in auditory cortex organization, reflecting individual differences in auditory function.
  • The observed functional variability is not explained by macroanatomical similarities, highlighting the importance of functional mapping.