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The early but not the late neural correlate of auditory awareness reflects lateralized experiences
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Perception and psychophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9924-5486
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Perception and psychophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3222-8056
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Perception and psychophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4531-4313
Number of Authors: 32021 (English)In: Neuropsychologia, ISSN 0028-3932, E-ISSN 1873-3514, Vol. 158, article id 107910Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Theories disagree as to whether it is the early or the late neural correlate of awareness that plays a critical role in phenomenal awareness. According to recurrent processing theory, early activity in primary sensory areas corresponds closely to phenomenal awareness. In support, research with electroencephalography found that in the visual and somatosensory modality, an early neural correlate of awareness is contralateral to the perceived side of stimulation. Thus, early activity is sensitive to the perceived side of visual and somatosensory stimulation. Critically, it is unresolved whether this is true also for hearing. In the present study (N = 26 students), Bayesian analyses showed that the early neural correlate of awareness (auditory awareness negativity, AAN) was stronger for contralateral than ipsilateral electrodes whereas the late correlate of auditory awareness (late positivity, LP) was not lateralized. These findings demonstrate that the early but not the late neural correlate of auditory awareness reflects lateralized experiences. Thus, these findings imply that AAN is a more suitable NCC than LP because it correlates more closely with lateralized experiences.

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2021. Vol. 158, article id 107910
Keywords [en]
auditory, consciousness, auditory awareness negativity, late positivity, lateralization
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Psychology Neurosciences
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-197048DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107910ISI: 000672326100011PubMedID: 34090867OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-197048DiVA, id: diva2:1597567
Available from: 2021-09-27 Created: 2021-09-27 Last updated: 2025-03-31Bibliographically approved
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1. Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Sound Localization
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Sound Localization
2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Within neuroscience, biological markers of consciousness are known as the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs). Electrophysiological data have suggested two candidate NCCs in hearing: the auditory awareness negativity (AAN), and late positivity (LP). The AAN is linked to phenomenal awareness of sound, and the LP to post-perceptual behavioral response and executive control. Earlier research on the analogs of the AAN in both vision and touch found topographical mapping onto the cerebral hemisphere that is contralateral to stimulus source. Similar research has not been conducted on the AAN. Sound localization is the ability to perceive spatial locations of sound sources. Localization of sound in the horizontal dimension utilizes binaural cues of time and intensity differences. Sound is typically perceived from outside the head and is localized to a physical space (sound localization). When sound is perceived within the head, by using headphones, sound is instead lateralized to the left or right along an intracranial axis (sound lateralization). The thesis comprised three studies of threshold-level identification tasks, where listeners were tasked to localize laterally displaced sounds. The first study tested the NCCs to sound lateralization using a binaural click stimulus that was lateralized randomly toward either ear, presented through headphones. Then, the second study tested the NCCs to sound localization using a square pulse stimulus played from random positions in a semicircular array of thirteen horizontally displaced equidistant loudspeakers. In the third study, the NCCs to different binaural cues in sound lateralization were tested, specifically manipulating differences in time and intensity with the same stimulus and equipment used in the first study. The overall results showed that the AAN contralaterally changes in relation to experienced sound source only in sound lateralization, and only in the tested condition where binaural cues of time and intensity differences were combined. The LP showed a hemispheric contralateral effect in relation to experienced sound source, but only to sound localization. This contralateral effect may be an attentional artifact of audiovisual integration, as the loudspeakers were seen by the listeners. The thesis suggests that the NCCs to sound localization and sound lateralization differ in expression based on hearing medium.

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Stockholm: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, 2025. p. 55
Keywords
neural correlates of consciousness, NCC, auditory awareness negativity, AAN, hearing, sound localization, electroencephalography, EEG, event-related potential, ERP
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Psychology (Excluding Applied Psychology)
Research subject
Psychology
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241493 (URN)978-91-8107-192-4 (ISBN)978-91-8107-193-1 (ISBN)
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2025-05-23, Lärosal 31, hus 4, våning 2, Albanovägen 12, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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