eprintid: 187064
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creators_name: Bueti, D
creators_name: van Dongen, EV
creators_name: Walsh, V
title: The Role of Superior Temporal Cortex in Auditory Timing
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F69
divisions: C08
keywords: TIME PERCEPTION, NEURAL REPRESENTATION, BRAIN ACTIVATION, INTERNAL CLOCK, VISUAL-CORTEX, BASAL GANGLIA, DURATION, INTERVALS, SYSTEMS, MOTOR
note: © 2008 Bueti et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Domenica Bueti was supported by the Leverhulme Trust; Vincent Walsh was supported by the Royal Society.
abstract: Recently, there has been upsurge of interest in the neural mechanisms of time perception. A central question is whether the representation of time is distributed over brain regions as a function of stimulus modality, task and length of the duration used or whether it is centralized in a single specific and supramodal network. The answers seem to be converging on the former, and many areas not primarily considered as temporal processing areas remain to be investigated in the temporal domain. Here we asked whether the superior temporal gyrus, an auditory modality specific area, is involved in processing of auditory timing. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied over left and right superior temporal gyri while participants performed either a temporal or a frequency discrimination task of single tones. A significant decrease in performance accuracy was observed after stimulation of the right superior temporal gyrus, in addition to an increase in response uncertainty as measured by the Just Noticeable Difference. The results are specific to auditory temporal processing and performance on the frequency task was not affected. Our results further support the idea of distributed temporal processing and speak in favor of the existence of modality specific temporal regions in the human brain.
date: 2008-06-25
publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002481
vfaculties: VFBRS
vfaculties: VFLS
oa_status: green
pmcid: PMC2429974
language: eng
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article_type_text: Article
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elements_source: Web of Science
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doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002481
language_elements: EN
lyricists_name: BUETI, DOMENICA
lyricists_name: Walsh, Vincent
lyricists_id: DBUET82
lyricists_id: VWALS55
full_text_status: public
publication: PLOS ONE
volume: 3
number: 6
article_number: e2481
issn: 1932-6203
citation:        Bueti, D;    van Dongen, EV;    Walsh, V;      (2008)    The Role of Superior Temporal Cortex in Auditory Timing.                   PLOS ONE , 3  (6)    , Article e2481.  10.1371/journal.pone.0002481 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002481>.       Green open access   
 
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