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@INPROCEEDINGS{Koroma:916037,
author = {Koroma, Matthieu and Raimondo, Federico and Boulakis,
Paradeisios and Strauss, Mélanie and Demertzi, Athina},
title = {{C}ardiac responses to auditory deviants track variations
of hierarchical perceptual processing during sleep{E}uropean
{S}leep {R}esearch {S}ociety},
reportid = {FZJ-2022-05883},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Embodied cognition proposes that visceral inputs play a
fundamental role in perceptual processing. The evidence
showing that variations in arousal can be tracked by
modulations of cardiac responses to violations of
hierarchical auditory expectations have come so far from
pathological low arousal states (Raimondo et al., 2017). We
study this question during sleep by investigating cardiac
responses to auditory deviants in a local-global paradigm -
a modified version of the classic oddball. Methods: We
re-analyzed a dataset of 23 healthy adults who heard the
local-global paradigm while having a morning nap (Strauss et
al., 2015). We tested cardiac modulations after auditory
deviants by comparing the time difference between the R-peak
of the heartbeat before and after the onset of auditory
deviants according to previous methodology (Raimondo et al.,
2017). Results: We found differences in cardiac responses
before and after the onset of deviants depending on the
hierarchical level of prediction and arousal state (3-way
repeated measures ANOVA, triple interaction: F(3,196)=3.92,
p=0.010). We replicated previous findings that no cardiac
modulations are observed after auditory deviants in wakeful
subjects (Student’s t-test for local: t(21)=-0.19,
p=0.848, global: t(21)=1.93, p=0.134; corrected for multiple
comparisons) (Raimondo et al., 2017). No modulations of
cardiac responses were also observed in deep NREM sleep
(local: t(5)=0.59, p=0.578, global: t(5)=-1.18, p=0.578;
corrected for multiple comparisons). However, an
acceleration of the heartbeat was found in light NREM and
REM sleep after local deviants (light NREM: t(15)=-3.67,
p=0.004, REM: t(8)=-2.51, p=0.036; corrected for multiple
comparisons), but not after global deviants (NREM:
t(15)=1.26, p=0.735, REM: t(8)=1.26, p=0.488; corrected for
multiple comparisons). Conclusions: Cardiac modulations to
violations of auditory expectations during sleep are
consistent with observations at the cerebral level that show
a preservation of low-level hierarchical predictions but an
absence of high-level hierarchical expectations in the light
NREM sleep and REM sleep stages (Strauss et al., 2015). Our
results thus confirm that cardiac modulations can track the
variations of hierarchical perceptual processing during
sleep. Codes and dataframes for statistical analyses can be
accessed here:
$https://gitlab.uliege.be/Matthieu.Koroma/sleep_localglobal$
Dr. Mélanie Strauss and Dr. Athena Demertzi are co-last
authors.},
month = {Sep},
date = {2022-09-26},
organization = {26th Congress of the European Sleep
Research Society, Athen (Greece), 26
Sep 2022 - 30 Sep 2022},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {INM-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5252 - Brain Dysfunction and Plasticity (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5252},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/916037},
}