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Temporo-cerebellar connectivity underlies timing constraints in audition

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ELIFE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -

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eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67303

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temporo-cerebellar connectivity; internal models; audition; lateralization; tractography; lesion mapping; Human

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  1. DFG [KO 2268/6-1]
  2. University of Leipzig, Germany

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This study investigated the relationship between auditory spectro-temporal processing and temporo-cerebellar connectivity through lesion patients and healthy participants. The results suggest that the temporo-cerebellar interface may play a crucial role in encoding and modeling rapidly modulated auditory spectro-temporal properties.
The flexible and efficient adaptation to dynamic, rapid changes in the auditory environment likely involves generating and updating of internal models. Such models arguably exploit connections between the neocortex and the cerebellum, supporting proactive adaptation. Here, we tested whether temporo-cerebellar disconnection is associated with the processing of sound at short timescales. First, we identify lesion-specific deficits for the encoding of short timescale spectro-temporal non-speech and speech properties in patients with left posterior temporal cortex stroke. Second, using lesion-guided probabilistic tractography in healthy participants, we revealed bidirectional temporo-cerebellar connectivity with cerebellar dentate nuclei and crura I/II. These findings support the view that the encoding and modeling of rapidly modulated auditory spectro-temporal properties can rely on a temporo-cerebellar interface. We discuss these findings in view of the conjecture that proactive adaptation to a dynamic environment via internal models is a generalizable principle.

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