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was increased by subtracting, for each frequency bin, the Cortical SSEP. In the cortex, we found a clear peak in
average amplitude measured at three neighboring the spectral amplitude at the repetition rate of the stimuli
frequency bins (Nozaradan et al., 2011). The spectral in the isochronous sequence, but not in the irregular
amplitude at the presentation rate was compared sequence (t13 = 4.261, p = <.05; see Fig. 3C).
between isochronous and irregular conditions using a
two-tailed paired-sample t-test. Pre vs post. In addition, the FFR analysis showed
enhanced responses to stimuli presented directly after
an omission compared to those presented before an
omission in both conditions (Fig. 3B), in the form of
RESULTS
higher spectral amplitude at the fundamental frequency
Cortex but not brainstem responds to omitted of the stimuli (F1,13 = 12.202, p = <.05, isochronous
sounds sequence: t13 = 3.160, p = <.05, irregular sequence:
t13 = 2.284, p = <.05) and higher RMS amplitude
In the cortex, we found a clear evoked response to
(F1,13 = 59.039, p = <.05, isochronous sequence:
omitted stimuli in both regular and jitter sequences
t13 = 4.123, p = <.05, irregular sequence:
(Fig. 2A). Negative-to-positive peak-to-peak amplitude
t13 = 7.863, p = <.05).
was larger for omissions occurring in the isochronous
compared to the irregular sequence (t13 = 6,200,
p = <.05). In the brainstem, no response was apparent DISCUSSION
to omissions in either condition, and brainstem activity in To trace entrainment-related processes along the
omission trials did not differ from activity in the silent auditory pathway, we simultaneously recorded cortical
intervals (Repeated measures ANOVA, interaction effect and subcortical responses to isochronous and irregular
of condition* stimuli type, F1,13 = 1.395, p > .05, sequences of sounds containing sporadic omissions.
Fig. 3B). Sounds flanking omissions evoked clear We asked whether early brainstem centers respond to
responses in both conditions (Fig. 2B). Note that here infrequent sound omissions and whether presentation
the term ‘‘omission” is used generally to address cortical regularity modulates the auditory brainstem response.
and brainstem activity obtained from the presentation of We observed responses evoked by omissions in the
an omitted stimulus, and therefore should not be auditory cortex, but not in the brainstem. However,
confused with the terms omission N1 or omission MMN brainstem responses showed higher inter-trial
obtained from other protocols (Yabe et al., 1997; consistency when stimuli were presented in an
SanMiguel et al., 2013), because cortical omission isochronous sequence than in an irregular sequence.
responses may indicate several high-level mechanisms, We also observed a steady-state-evoked response at
such as predictive coding (see introduction), but brain- the average presentation rate in the cortex during
stem omission responses, if they exist, may indicate isochronous, but not jittered presentation. Lastly we
other, perhaps lower-level, mechanisms. found stronger adaptation in the cortex and brainstem of
responses to stimuli that preceded omissions than those
that followed omissions.
Enhanced brainstem and cortical encoding of
isochronous sound sequence Cortex, but not brainstem responds to omitted
sounds
Despite the lack of evoked responses to omissions in the
brainstem, we found effects of stimulus sequence We did not observe responses evoked by omissions in
regularity. The intertrial consistency of brainstem the brainstem, even though auditory cortex responded
responses to sounds presented in the isochronous strongly to these omissions (Busse and Woldorff, 2003;
sequence was higher than that in the irregular sequence Zanto et al., 2006; Honing et al., 2012). Cortical omission
(repeated measures ANOVA, main effect of condition, responses showed the expected latency and morphology
F1,13 = 40.504, p < .05, Fig. 3A). In order to test (Bendixen et al., 2012), and were larger in the isochro-
whether this effect could simply be explained by the nous than in the irregular sequence, likely because
length of the prior silent interval, we compared the entrainment and the build-up of temporal expectancy
consistency obtained in the irregular condition to a increases with sequence regularity (Schwartze et al.,
worst-case scenario where each of the two bins used to 2011).
compute consistency were composed of the larger and Similar findings were reported by Oceák and
smaller SOA trials respectively. This worst-case colleagues, who found that the amplitude of standard
scenario consistency measure did not differ significantly minus omission responses was significantly higher for
from the originally computed one (t26 = 0.1013, isochronous SOA compared to random SOA (Oceák
p = 0.92). et al., 2006). Although the interpretation of omission
Additionally, sound stimuli following omissions (‘post / responses is still under debate (Predictive coding:
da/’) showed higher consistency than stimuli preceding Cornella et al., 2015; regularity violation: Näätänen et al.,
omissions (‘prior /da/’) (main effect of stimulus type, 2007; sound offset rebound: Horváth et al., 2010; loudness
F1,13 = 42.942, p = <.05, isochronous sequence: changes: Oceák et al., 2006; Fishman, 2014;), there is
t13 = 6.187, p = <.05, irregular sequence: mounting evidence for predictive coding in the auditory
t13 = 3.802, p = <.05). system (Bendixen et al., 2012) and computational models
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A Isochronous B Isochronous
4 Irregular 4
Irregular
Amplitude[ µV]
Amplitude [µV]
2 2
0 0
-2 -2
-100 0 100 200 300 400 500 -100 0 100 200 300 4 00 500
Time (ms) Time (ms)
Amplitude [µV]
0.3 0.3
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0 0
-0.1 -0.1
-0.2 -0.2
-0.3 -0.3
-0.4 -0.4
-10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Time (ms) Time (ms)
Fig. 2. Grand average of cortical and brainstem potentials measured in the different stimulus conditions. Cortical responses to omissions (A) and to
/da/ stimuli (B) in the isochronous (black line) and the irregular condition (gray dashed line). Responses to the ongoing sound sequence have been
subtracted to omissions. Brainstem responses to /da/ stimuli just before an omission (pale gray dashed line), to /da/ stimuli right after an omission
(black line) and to the omission (dark gray line) in the isochronous (C) and irregular conditions (D). No omission-evoked response was apparent.
Fig. 3. (A) Consistency index of /da/ events in brainstem. It corresponds to the coefficient of correlation between odd and even trials within each
condition. Isochronous sequences (gray bars) elicited responses of higher inter-trial consistency than irregular sequences (white bars). The highest
consistency was observed for stimuli directly following an omission (Post). (B) Spectral FFR amplitudes at stimulus F0 (120 Hz) for different
stimulus conditions in isochronous (gray bars) and irregular sequences (white bars). Responses to stimuli directly following an omission (Post) were
larger than those preceding omissions (Prior). No amplitude differences were found between omissions and silent periods. (C) Spectral SSEP
amplitudes at average stimulus presentation rate in the cortex. Values were extracted from epochs containing stimuli and omissions but excluding
silent blocks. No response was observed in the irregular condition. All panels show mean values ± SEM. Asterisks highlight significant differences
at p < .05.
of such mechanisms account for omission responses changes in wave V (thought to arise from the inferior col-
(Wacongne et al., 2012; Schröger et al., 2014). The lack liculus) or earlier potentials (Slabu et al., 2010; Grimm
of omission responses in the auditory brainstem in either et al., 2011). There is conflicting evidence for the larger
sequence presentations conditions supports the notion question whether brainstem processing is affected by
that the auditory brainstem faithfully encodes short-term cognitive and task demands such as attentional focus
acoustic properties of a stimulus (Galbraith et al., 1995; and listening context (Chandrasekaran et al., 2009; Skoe
Skoe and Kraus, 2010a), but does not contribute and Kraus, 2010b; Lehmann and Schönwiesner, 2014)
significantly to extracting regularities in sound input and or not (Varghese et al., 2015).
to predicting future input based on such regularities. This In the present paper, omission duration and frequency
hypothesis is supported by previous results. Two previous was suitable to elicit cortical omission responses.
studies examined ABRs in a predictive coding paradigm However, because auditory cortex tends to respond
and found no evidence for responses evoked by sound better to slower amplitude modulations than auditory
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brainstem nuclei (Giraud et al., 2000), it is possible that beta oscillations (Iversen et al., 2009; Fujioka and
omissions in faster stimulus sequences would have trig- Trainor, 2012), and gamma oscillations (Snyder and
gered brainstem omission responses. Large, 2005; Zanto et al., 2006). Our study clearly shows
a difference in cortical SSEPs between isochronous and
Consistency of brainstem responses depends on irregular conditions, but the relationship between sus-
sequence regularity tained cortical oscillation and parametric variations of tim-
ing variability remains to be investigated.
Even if cognitive activity changes brainstem processing in
the short term, such a modulation is likely mediated by Differential adaptation mechanisms in cortex and
efferent projections (Tzounopoulos and Kraus, 2009) brainstem
which modulate ongoing subcortical activity, but may not
generate activity, and would thus be insufficient to pro- The observed larger responses to stimuli after an
duce overt responses to omissions. Our finding of higher omission in both the cortical and subcortical recordings
consistency of the brainstem response to sounds pre- may be due to adaptation (Thompson and Spencer,
sented in an isochronous sequence indicates that, while 1966; Ulanovsky et al., 2003). Neural adaptation at the
no overt omission response was present, the responses brainstem level has been observed in the transient audi-
to sound stimuli were modulated by sequence regularity. tory brainstem response to clicks (Lasky, 1997; Hood,
To rule out that the lower consistency in the irregular con- 1998) but for the first time it is reported here in the FFR.
dition is due to bottom-up adaptation effects, we used a This is not trivial since the FFR is not predictable from
worst-case scenario computation of consistency, and the response to click and tones and may involve distinct
showed that this entrainment effect cannot be explained neural generators (Galbraith et al., 1998; Palmer and
solely by the variability in SOA across trials. Shamma, 2004; Johnson et al., 2008; Skoe and Kraus,
Higher response consistency has been associated 2010a).
with more robust processing of sounds and increased
temporal precision of encoding (Schatteman et al., Subcortical involvement in beat processing
2008; Anderson et al., 2012). Studies in animals suggest
that thalamic neurons entrain to repetitive sound stimula- The aforementioned mechanisms – response to omitted
tion at low repetitions rates (Gao et al., 2009). It may thus stimuli, modulation by sequence regularity and
be that a lower rate would have resulted in measurable adaptation – differentially observed in cortical and
omission responses. Recording brainstem responses to brainstem responses, underlie the capacity to extract
sequences with long SOA is difficult due to the large num- and process beat/rhythm, and therefore point to a
ber of repetitions required for sufficient signal quality. It selective involvement of the brainstem (Zanto et al.,
has been demonstrated that cortical responses to an 2006). However the protocol used in the current study
unexpected offset of regular sequences are faster when does not allow us to elaborate on such processes
the sequence is attended than during passive listening because our SOA (90 ms period) was below the range
(Yamashiro et al., 2009; Andreou et al., 2015), however, of human tempo perception (200 ms/300 BPM –
this was not the case for isochronous sequences. We 1000 ms/60 BPM: Drake and Botte, 1993).
thus think that attending to the sequences would likely In sum, our results suggest that stimulus omissions in
not have increased the likelihood of measuring an overt fast sound sequences do not trigger measurable omission
omission response. responses in the human ABR. The human auditory
brainstem response selectively exhibits relevant
properties related to beat extraction (sequence
Cortical responses are modulated by sequence regularity modulation, adaptation).
regularity
Cortical event-related responses are modulated by the Acknowledgments—This work was funded by the National
temporal structure of sound sequences (Luck, 2005; Science and Engineering Council of Canada. We thank Dr. Nina
Lakatos et al., 2008; Schwartze et al., 2011). Here we Kraus for providing the /da/ stimulus. MS was supported by a
career grant from the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec – Sante.
found cortical steady-state-evoked potentials (SSEPs)
DJA was supported by an undergraduate research stipend from
with clear spectral amplitude at the average rate of the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada.
stimulation in the isochronous sequence but not in the
irregular sequence. Such sustained activity in response
to isochronous sequences may have contributed to the
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