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@ARTICLE{Puschmann:838615,
author = {Puschmann, Sebastian and Steinkamp, Simon and Gillich, Imke
and Mirkovic, Bojana and Debener, Stefan and Thiel,
Christiane M.},
title = {{T}he right temporoparietal junction supports speech
tracking during selective listening: {E}vidence from
concurrent {EEG}-f{MRI}},
journal = {The journal of neuroscience},
volume = {37},
number = {47},
issn = {0270-6474},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Soc.69657},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-07192},
pages = {11505-11516},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Listening selectively to one out of several competing
speakers in a “cocktail party” situation is a highly
demanding task. It relies on a widespread cortical network,
including auditory sensory, but also frontal and parietal
brain regions involved in controlling auditory attention.
Previous work has shown that, during selective listening,
ongoing neural activity in auditory sensory areas is
dominated by the attended speech stream, whereas competing
input is suppressed. The relationship between these
attentional modulations in the sensory tracking of the
attended speech stream and frontoparietal activity during
selective listening is, however, not understood. We studied
this question in young, healthy human participants (both
sexes) using concurrent EEG-fMRI and a sustained selective
listening task, in which one out of two competing speech
streams had to be attended selectively. An EEG-based speech
envelope reconstruction method was applied to assess the
strength of the cortical tracking of the to-be-attended and
the to-be-ignored stream during selective listening. Our
results show that individual speech envelope reconstruction
accuracies obtained for the to-be-attended speech stream
were positively correlated with the amplitude of sustained
BOLD responses in the right temporoparietal junction, a core
region of the ventral attention network. This brain region
further showed task-related functional connectivity to
secondary auditory cortex and regions of the frontoparietal
attention network, including the intraparietal sulcus and
the inferior frontal gyrus. This suggests that the right
temporoparietal junction is involved in controlling
attention during selective listening, allowing for a better
cortical tracking of the attended speech stream.SIGNIFICANCE
STATEMENT Listening selectively to one out of several
simultaneously talking speakers in a “cocktail party”
situation is a highly demanding task. It activates a
widespread network of auditory sensory and hierarchically
higher frontoparietal brain regions. However, how these
different processing levels interact during selective
listening is not understood. Here, we investigated this
question using fMRI and concurrently acquired scalp EEG. We
found that activation levels in the right temporoparietal
junction correlate with the sensory representation of a
selectively attended speech stream. In addition, this region
showed significant functional connectivity to both auditory
sensory and other frontoparietal brain areas during
selective listening. This suggests that the right
temporoparietal junction contributes to controlling
selective auditory attention in “cocktail party”
situations.},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:29061698},
UT = {WOS:000416595200019},
doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1007-17.2017},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/838615},
}