Reexamining the evidence for a pitch-sensitive region: A human fMRI study using iterated ripple noise

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 745-753

  Barker, Daphne ^a,b   Plack, Christopher J ^b   Hall, Deborah A ^a,c,d  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing   (United Kingdom)

^d NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heschl's gyrus; modulation; planum polare; planum temporale; salience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84859066883     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr065     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Barker D, Plack CJ, Hall DA. 2011. Human auditory cortical responses to pitch and to pitch strength. NeuroReport. 22:111-115.
2. Bendor D, Wang XQ. 2005. The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex. Nature. 436:1161-1165.
3. Bendor D, Wang XQ. 2006. Cortical representations of pitch in monkeys and humans. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 16:391-399.
4. Blackman G, Hall DA. 2011. Reducing the effects of background noise during auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging of speech processing: qualitative and quantitative comparisons between two image acquisition schemes and noise cancellation. J Sp Lang Hear Res. 54:693-704.
5. Burkhard MD, Sachs RM. 1975. Anthropometric manikin for acoustic research. J Acoust Soc Am. 58:214-222.
6. Chait M, Poeppel D, Simon JZ. 2006. Neural response correlates of detection of monaurally and binaurally created pitches in humans. Cereb Cortex. 16:835-848.
7. de Cheveigné A. 2007. "Comment by de Cheveigné". In: Kollmeier G, Klump V, Hohmann M, Mauermann S, Uppenkamp S, Verhey J, editors. Hearing-from sensory processing to perception. New York (NY): Springer. p. 90-91.
8. Edmister WB, Talavage TM, Ledden PJ, Weisskoff RM. 1999. Improved auditory cortex imaging using clustered volume acquisitions. Hum Brain Mapp. 7:89-97.
9. Eickhoff SB, Stephan KE, Mohlberg H, Grefkes C, Fink GR, Amunts K, Zilles K. 2005. A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data. Neuroimage. 25:1325-1335.
10. Friston KJ, Stephan KE, Lund TE, Morcom A, Kiebel S. 2005. Mixedeffects and fMRI studies. NeuroImage. 24:244-252.
11. García D, Hall DA, Plack CJ. 2010. The effect of stimulus context on pitch representations in the human auditory cortex. Neuroimage. 51:808-816.
12. Genovese CR, Lazar NA, Nichols T. 2002. Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using the false discovery rate. Neuroimage. 15:870-878.
13. Griffiths TD, Buchel C, Frackowiak RSJ, Patterson RD. 1998. Analysis of temporal structure in sound by the human brain. Nat Neurosci. 1:422-427.
14. Griffiths TD, Kumar S, Sedley W, Nourski KV, Kawasaki H, Oya H, Patterson RD, Brugge JF, Howard MA. 2010. Direct recordings of pitch responses from human auditory cortex. Curr Biol. 20:1128-1132.
15. Hall DA, Chambers J, Akeroyd MA, Foster JR, Coxon R, Palmer AR. 2009. Acoustic, psychophysical, and neuroimaging measurements of the effectiveness of active cancellation during auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Acoust Soc Am. 125:347-359.
16. Hall DA, Edmondson-Jones AM, Fridriksson J. 2006. Periodicity and frequency coding in human auditory cortex. Eur J Neurosci. 24:3601-3610.
17. Hall DA, Haggard MP, Akeroyd MA, Palmer AR, Summerfield AQ, Elliott MR, Gurney EM, Bowtell RW. 1999. "Sparse" temporal sampling in auditory fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp. 7:213-223.
18. Hall DA, Plack CJ. 2007. The human 'pitch center' responds differently to iterated noise and Huggins pitch. Neuroreport. 18:323-327.
19. Hall DA, Plack CJ. 2009. Pitch processing sites in the human auditory brain. Cereb Cortex. 19:576-585.
20. Krumbholz K, Patterson RD, Seither-Preisler A, Lammertmann C, Lutkenhoner B. 2003. Neuromagnetic evidence for a pitch processing center in Heschl's gyrus. Cereb Cortex. 13:765-772.
21. Levitt H. 1971. Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. J Acoust Soc Am. 49:467-477.
22. Morosan P, Rademacher J, Schleicher A, Amunts K, Schormann T, Zilles K. 2001. Human primary auditory cortex: cytoarchitectonic subdivisions and mapping into a spatial reference system. Neuroimage. 13:684-701.
23. Oldfield RC. 1971. Assessment and analysis of handedness-Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia. 9:97-113.
24. Patterson RD, Uppenkamp S, Johnsrude IS, Griffiths TD. 2002. The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex. Neuron. 36:767-776.
25. Penagos H, Melcher JR, Oxenham AJ. 2004. A neural representation of pitch salience in nonprimary human auditory cortex revealed with functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci. 24:6810-6815.
26. Plack CJ. 2007. The temporal window model and the linearity of temporal summation 19th Int Cong Acoust, Madrid, (Spain): Sociedad Espanola de Acustica.
27. Plack CJ, Oxenham AJ. 2005. The psychophysics of pitch. In: Plack CJ, Oxenham AJ, Fay RR, Popper AN, editors. Pitch: neural coding and perception. New York (NY): Springer. p. 7-55.
28. Plack CJ, Oxenham AJ, Drga V. 2002. Linear and nonlinear processes in temporal masking. Acustica. 88:348-358.
29. Puschmann S, Uppenkamp S, Kollmeier B, Thiel CM. 2010. Dichotic pitch activates pitch processing center in Heschl's gyrus. Neuroimage. 49:1641-1649.
30. Schönwiesner M, Zatorre RJ. 2009. Spectro-temporal modulation transfer function of single voxels in the human auditory cortex measured with high-resolution fMRI. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106:14611-14616.
31. Warren JD, Uppenkamp S, Patterson RD, Griffiths TD. 2003. Separating pitch chroma and pitch height in the human brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 100:10038-10042.
32. Yost WA. 1996. Pitch strength of iterated rippled noise. J Acoust Soc Am. 100:3329-3335.