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Indexing sensory plasticity: Evidence for distinct Predictive Coding and Hebbian learning mechanisms in the cerebral cortex

Journal

NEUROIMAGE
Volume 176, Issue -, Pages 290-300

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.060

Keywords

Dynamic Causal Modelling; Long Term Potentiation; Mismatch negativity; Neuroplasticity; Perceptual learning

Funding

  1. Brain Research New Zealand Doctoral Scholarship
  2. Auckland Medical Research Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
  3. Rutherford Discovery Fellowship

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The Roving Mismatch Negativity (MMN), and Visual LTP paradigms are widely used as independent measures of sensory plasticity. However, the paradigms are built upon fundamentally different (and seemingly opposing) models of perceptual learning; namely, Predictive Coding (MMN) and Hebbian plasticity (LTP). The aim of the current study was to compare the generative mechanisms of the MMN and visual LTP, therefore assessing whether Predictive Coding and Hebbian mechanisms co-occur in the brain. Forty participants were presented with both paradigms during EEG recording. Consistent with Predictive Coding and Hebbian predictions, Dynamic Causal Modelling revealed that the generation of the MMN modulates forward and backward connections in the underlying network, while visual LTP only modulates forward connections. These results suggest that both Predictive Coding and Hebbian mechanisms are utilized by the brain under different task demands. This therefore indicates that both tasks provide unique insight into plasticity mechanisms, which has important implications for future studies of aberrant plasticity in clinical populations.

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