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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 118, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015488118
Keywords
speech perception; transcranial alternating current stimulation; fMRI; dynamic causal modeling; dichotic listening
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [P2BEP3_ 168728/PP00P1_163726]
- Janggen-Pohn Stiftung
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Brain connectivity is crucial for encoding, transferring, and integrating sensory information, with neural oscillations synchronization playing a key role in perceptual integration. Interhemispheric oscillatory synchrony modulation affects binaural integration of dichotic acoustic features, and changes in intra- and interhemispheric connectivity induced by stimulation are correlated with changes in perceptual integration.
Brain connectivity plays a major role in the encoding, transfer, and integration of sensory information. Interregional synchronization of neural oscillations in the.-frequency band has been suggested as a key mechanism underlying perceptual integration. In a recent study, we found evidence for this hypothesis showing that the modulation of interhemispheric oscillatory synchrony by means of bihemispheric high-density transcranial alternating current stimulation (HD-TACS) affects binaural integration of dichotic acoustic features. Here, we aimed to establish a direct link between oscillatory synchrony, effective brain connectivity, and binaural integration. We experimentally manipulated oscillatory synchrony (using bihemispheric gamma-TACS with different interhemispheric phase lags) and assessed the effect on effective brain connectivity and binaural integration (as measured with functional MRI and a dichotic listening task, respectively). We found that TACS reduced intrahemispheric connectivity within the auditory cortices and antiphase (interhemispheric phase lag 180 degrees) TACS modulated connectivity between the two auditory cortices. Importantly, the changes in intra- and interhemispheric connectivity induced by TACS were correlated with changes in perceptual integration. Our results indicate that.-band synchronization between the two auditory cortices plays a functional role in binaural integration, supporting the proposed role of interregional oscillatory synchrony in perceptual integration.
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