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Feature conjunctions and auditory sensory memoryE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, New York, NY 10461, USA
Brain Res 793:95-102. 1998..The result lends further support to the hypothesis that the system upon which the mismatch negativity relies processes stimuli in an holistic manner...
Top-down effects can modify the initially stimulus-driven auditory organizationElyse Sussman
Department of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway S, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 13:393-405. 2002..The results demonstrate a top-down effect on the sound representation maintained in auditory cortex...
Dynamic sensory updating in the auditory systemE Sussman
Department of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway S, Bronx, New York, NY 10461, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 12:431-9. 2001..These results suggest the existence of a dynamic system of change detection, which updates its model of the sensory input on-line as the changes occur...
Auditory stream segregation processes operate similarly in school-aged children and adultsE Sussman
Department of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Hear Res 153:108-14. 2001..Our results demonstrate that the mechanisms for auditory stream segregation operate similarly in school-aged children and adults when frequency proximity is the cue for segregation...
Temporal integration of auditory stimulus deviance as reflected by the mismatch negativityE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Neurosci Lett 264:161-4. 1999..Taken together, these results support the notion of a general temporal integration mechanism in the formation of auditory events with ca. 200 ms long window...
An investigation of the auditory streaming effect using event-related brain potentialsE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Psychophysiology 36:22-34. 1999..MMNs were obtained to both the high and low deviants when the interval between the across-stream deviance was lengthened to more than 250 ms in Experiment 2, indicating that the MMN system is susceptible to processing constraints...
Reactivation of a dormant representation of an auditory stimulus featureW Ritter
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Bronx NY 10461, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 10:605-14. 1998..The present study provides data that supports the latter possibility but leaves open the former one...
The development of the perceptual organization of sound by frequency separation in 5-11-year-old childrenE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Kennedy Center, Room 925, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Hear Res 225:117-27. 2007..The data indicate that the ability to hear distinct sound streams in the environment takes time to develop and becomes sharpened with experience and maturity...
The maturation of human evoked brain potentials to sounds presented at different stimulus ratesE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Hear Res 236:61-79. 2008..We conclude that both age and ISI are important variables in the assessment of auditory cortex function and maturation. The presence of N2 in adolescents indicates that auditory cortical maturation persists into teen years...
Electrophysiological evidence of developmental changes in the duration of auditory sensory memoryH Gomes
Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, USA
Dev Psychol 35:294-302. 1999..All 4 groups exhibited MMNs after delays of 1 s, but only the adults and oldest children exhibited MMNs after 8 s, indicating that there are maturational changes in the duration of auditory sensory memory...
Top-down control over involuntary attention switching in the auditory modalityE Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 10:630-7. 2003..The present data allowed observation of the temporal dynamics of attention switching in the human brain...
Category effects: is top-down control alone sufficient to elicit the mismatch negativity (MMN) component?G Sadia
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, United States
Biol Psychol 92:191-8. 2013..Only the N2b and P3b attention-driven target detection components were elicited. These results suggest that top-down factors alone cannot generate mismatch negativity. Standard formation by stimulus-driven factors is required...
Units of sound representation and temporal integration: a mismatch negativity studyAttila Oceák
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Neurosci Lett 436:85-9. 2008....
Memory reactivation or reinstatement and the mismatch negativityWalter Ritter
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
Psychophysiology 39:158-65. 2002..Experiment 1 showed that a single train is sufficient. With data from recent studies, Experiment 2 showed that MMNs in Position 2 of trains are due to reinstatement rather than reactivation of the memory...
Temporal integration: intentional sound discrimination does not modulate stimulus-driven processes in auditory event synthesisElyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 113:1909-20. 2002..The aim of the current study was to assess whether top-down processes could influence the stimulus-driven processes in determining what constitutes an auditory event...
Object representation in the human auditory systemIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, P O Box 398, Hungary
Eur J Neurosci 24:625-34. 2006..Thus tones forming a spectro-temporal border are exclusively assigned to one sound object at any given time, as are spatio-temporal borders in vision...
Loudness summation and the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential in humansAttila Oceák
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Psychophysiology 43:13-20. 2006..MMN was elicited by tone omissions with random SOA, suggesting that loudness summation plays an important role in the elicitation of omission MMN...
Neurophysiological evidence for context-dependent encoding of sensory input in human auditory cortexElyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, NY 10461, USA
Brain Res 1075:165-74. 2006..The results demonstrate that context-dependent sound representations modulate stimulus-dependent neural encoding at early stages of auditory cortical processing...
Event-related brain potentials reveal multiple stages in the perceptual organization of soundIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:291-9. 2005..These results suggest that sound organization goes through at least two distinct stages, the first being fully stimulus driven, whereas the second is partly under top-down control...
The development of the length of the temporal window of integration for rapidly presented auditory information as indexed by MMNWenjung Wang
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 116:1695-706. 2005..SIGNIFICANCE: Rapid stimulus presentation rates can be successfully used in school-aged children to study neural mechanisms of auditory processes...
MMN and attention: competition for deviance detectionElyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461, USA
Psychophysiology 40:430-5. 2003..Top-down processes can determine what information reaches the deviance-detection process when changes in multiple channels vie for the same MMN resource and one of the competing changes is relevant for the subject's task...
Preattentive binding of auditory and visual stimulus featuresIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
J Cogn Neurosci 17:320-39. 2005....
Pre-attentive categorization of vowel formant structure in complex tonesThomas Jacobsen
BioCog Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstrasse 14 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:473-9. 2004..The human mind extracts the language-relevant information from complex tones despite the non-relevant variation in the sound input...
Grouping of sequential sounds--an event-related potential study comparing musicians and nonmusiciansTitia L van Zuijen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Cogn Neurosci 16:331-8. 2004..These results suggest that some forms of auditory grouping depend on musical skill and that not all aspects of auditory grouping are universal...
Automatic and controlled processing of acoustic and phonetic contrastsElyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience and Department of Otolaryngology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway S, Bronx, NY, USA
Hear Res 190:128-40. 2004..Differences occurred only in later stages associated with controlled processes. The effects of position and attention on speech and non-speech stimuli are discussed...
Preattentive auditory context effectsIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:57-77. 2003..The close correspondence found between the effects of auditory context on the perceptual and preattentive measures of auditory grouping suggests that a large part of contextual processing is preattentive...
Human auditory cortex tracks task-irrelevant sound sourcesIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, PO Box 398, Szondi u 83 85, Hungary
Neuroreport 14:2053-6. 2003..Our results demonstrate that sounds are organized into auditory streams irrespective of their relevance to ongoing behavior...
Representation of the standard: stimulus context effects on the process generating the mismatch negativity component of event-related brain potentialsElyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10461, USA
Psychophysiology 40:465-71. 2003....
Newborn infants can organize the auditory worldIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11812-5. 2003..Its presence in newborn infants shows that the basic abilities required for the development of conceptual objects are available already at the time of birth...
Auditory organization of sound sequences by a temporal or numerical regularity--a mismatch negativity study comparing musicians and non-musiciansTitia L van Zuijen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9 Siltavuorenpenger 20 C, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:270-6. 2005..Furthermore, the auditory system of professional musicians can encode a numerical regularity without attention being required reflecting the functional importance of beat tracking in the perceptual organization of music...
