Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Automatic and feature-specific prediction-related neural activity in the human auditory system

  • Gianpaolo Demarchi,
  • Gaëtan Sanchez,
  • Nathan Weisz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11440-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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After listening to a predictable sequence of sounds, we can anticipate and predict the next sound in the sequence. Here, the authors show that during expectation of a sound, the brain generates neural activity matching that which is produced by actually hearing the same sound.