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NEUROIMAGE
卷 284, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120428
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EEG; MMN; Infant; Language; Prediction; Phoneme; Pattern; Rule; Learning; Sensory adaptation; ERP; Preterm
During the last trimester of gestation, fetuses and preterm neonates begin to respond to sensory stimulation and discover the structure of their environment. A study showed that as early as 31 weeks gestational age, both preterm and full-term neonates were able to detect violations of regularity in auditory sequences.
During the last trimester of gestation, fetuses and preterm neonates begin to respond to sensory stimulation and to discover the structure of their environment. Yet, neuronal migration is still ongoing. This late migration notably concerns the supra-granular layers neurons, which are believed to play a critical role in encoding predictions and detecting regularities. In order to gain a deeper understanding of how the brain processes and perceives regularities during this stage of development, we conducted a study in which we recorded event-related potentials (ERP) in 31-wGA preterm and full-term neonates exposed to alternating auditory sequences (e.g. ba ga ba ga ba), when the regularity of these sequences was violated by a repetition (e.g., ba ga ba ga ga). We compared the ERPs in this case to those obtained when violating a simple repetition pattern (ga ga ga ga ga vs. ga ga ga ga ba). Our results indicated that both preterm and full-term neonates were able to detect violations of regularity in both types of sequences, indicating that as early as 31 weeks gestational age, human neonates are sensitive to the conditional statistics between successive auditory elements. Full-term neonates showed an early and similar mismatch response (MMR) in the repetition and alternating sequences. In contrast, 31-wGA neonates exhibited a two-component MMR. The first component which was only observed for simple sequences with repetition, corresponded to sensory adaptation. It was followed much later by a deviance-detection component that was observed for both alternation and repetition sequences. This pattern confirms that MMRs detected at the scalp may correspond to a dual cortical process and shows that deviance detection computed by higher-level regions accelerates dramatically with brain maturation during the last weeks of gestation to become indistinguishable from bottom-up sensory adaptation at term.
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