Event Abstract Back to Event Auditory processing Kimmo Alho1* and Claude Alain2* 1 University of Helsinki, Finland 2 Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and University of Toronto, Canada Modern brain research methods have greatly advanced our understanding of human auditory information processing. Different processing stages in the auditory cortex and other brain areas have been separated with event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and related methods. For example, the mismatch negativity ERP component elicited by sounds violating regularity in the auditory environment may be used to reveal stages and principles of preattentive auditory processing. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and related methods, in turn, allow localization of brain activations associated with different types of auditory processing. For example, fMRI studies have indicated differences in involvement of brain regions within and outside the auditory cortex in spatial and non-spatial auditory processing and in auditory discrimination and memory. Combining the millisecond-scale ERP results and millimeter-scale fMRI findings provides us with a possibility to build a more complete, temporally and spatially accurate picture of auditory processing in the human brain. Keywords: auditory processing, ERP, fMRI Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Introduction Topic: Symposium 5: Auditory processing Citation: Alho K and Alain C (2011). Auditory processing. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00030 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 09 Nov 2011; Published Online: 15 Nov 2011. * Correspondence: Prof. Kimmo Alho, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, kimmo.alho@helsinki.fi Dr. Claude Alain, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, calain@research.baycrest.org Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Kimmo Alho Claude Alain Google Kimmo Alho Claude Alain Google Scholar Kimmo Alho Claude Alain PubMed Kimmo Alho Claude Alain Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.
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