Implicit learning of predictable sound sequences modulates human brain responses at different levels of the auditory hierarchy.

ABSTRACT: Deviant stimuli, violating regularities in a sensory environment, elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN), largely described in the Event-Related Potential literature. While it is widely accepted that the MMN reflects more than basic change detection, a comprehensive description of mental processes modulating this response is still lacking. Within the framework of predictive coding, deviance processing is part of an inference process where prediction errors (the mismatch between incoming sensations and predictions established through experience) are minimized. In this view, the MMN is a measure of prediction error, which yields specific expectations regarding its modulations by various experimental factors. In particular, it predicts that the MMN should decrease as the occurrence of a devianc

SUBMITTER: Lecaignard F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4584941 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature