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Child specific activation in left auditory cortex predicts behavioral performance in inhibition tasks

View ORCID ProfileSam van Bijnen, View ORCID ProfileLauri Parkkonen, View ORCID ProfileTiina Parviainen
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.30.069906
Sam van Bijnen
1Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
2Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WX, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Lauri Parkkonen
3Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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Tiina Parviainen
1Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Abstract

Sensory processing during development is important for the emerging cognitive skills underlying goal-directed behavior. Yet, it is not known how auditory processing in children is related to their cognitive functions. Here, we utilized combined magneto- and electroencephalographic (M/EEG) measurements to show that child-unique auditory cortical activity at ∼250 ms after auditory stimulation predicts the performance in inhibition tasks. While unaffected by task demands, the amplitude of the left-hemisphere activation pattern was significantly correlated with the variability of behavioral response time. Since this activation pattern is not present in adults, our results suggest divergent brain mechanisms in adults and children for consistent performance in auditory-based cognitive tasks. This difference can be explained as a shift in cortical resources for cognitive control from sensorimotor associations in the auditory cortex of children to top–down regulated control processes involving (pre)frontal and cingulate areas in adults.

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Child specific activation in left auditory cortex predicts behavioral performance in inhibition tasks
Sam van Bijnen, Lauri Parkkonen, Tiina Parviainen
bioRxiv 2020.04.30.069906; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.30.069906
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Child specific activation in left auditory cortex predicts behavioral performance in inhibition tasks
Sam van Bijnen, Lauri Parkkonen, Tiina Parviainen
bioRxiv 2020.04.30.069906; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.30.069906

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