Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion

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作者
Davidson, Gray D. [1 ]
Pitts, Michael A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Reed Coll, Dept Psychol, Portland, OR 97202 USA
关键词
bistable perception; auditory awareness; ERP; consciousness; TRITONE PARADOX; BINOCULAR-RIVALRY; NECKER-CUBE; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SELECTIVE-ATTENTION; AMBIGUOUS FIGURES; STABLE PERCEPTION; VISUAL AWARENESS; STIMULI; DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.3389/fnhum.2014.00572
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Previous event related potential (ERP) experiments have consistently identified two components associated with perceptual transitions of bistable visual stimuli, the "reversal negativity" (RN) and the "late positive complex" (LPC). The RN (similar to 200 ms post-stimulus, bilateral occipital-parietal distribution) is thought to reflect transitions between neural representations that form the moment-to-moment contents of conscious perception, while the LPC (similar to 400 ms, central-parietal) is considered an index of post-perceptual processing related to accessing and reporting one's percept. To explore the generality of these components across sensory modalities, the present experiment utilized a novel bistable auditory stimulus. Pairs of complex tones with ambiguous pitch relationships were presented sequentially while subjects reported whether they perceived the tone pairs as ascending or descending in pitch. ERPs elicited by the tones were compared according to whether perceived pitch motion changed direction or remained the same across successive trials. An auditory reversal negativity (aRN) component was evident at similar to 170 ms post stimulus over bilateral fronto-central scalp locations. An auditory LPC component (aLPC) was evident at subsequent latencies (similar to 350 ms, fronto-central distribution). These two components may be auditory analogs of the visual RN and LPC, suggesting functionally equivalent but anatomically distinct processes in auditory vs visual bistable perception.
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