"What" and "when" predictions modulate auditory processing in a mutually congruent manner.

Introduction: Extracting regularities from ongoing stimulus streams to form predictions is crucial for adaptive behavior. Such regularities exist in terms of the content of the stimuli and their timing, both of which are known to interactively modulate sensory processing. In real-world stimulus streams such as music, regularities can occur at multiple levels, both in terms of contents (e.

Cross-modal implicit learning of random time patterns.

Perception is sensitive to statistical regularities in the environment, including temporal characteristics of sensory inputs. Interestingly, implicit learning of temporal patterns in one modality can also improve their processing in another modality. However, it is unclear how cross-modal learning transfer affects neural responses to sensory stimuli.

Simultaneous mnemonic and predictive representations in the auditory cortex.

Recent studies have shown that stimulus history can be decoded via the use of broadband sensory impulses to reactivate mnemonic representations.. However, memories of previous stimuli can also be used to form sensory predictions about upcoming stimuli.

Decoding the Content of Auditory Sensory Memory Across Species.

In contrast to classical views of working memory (WM) maintenance, recent research investigating activity-silent neural states has demonstrated that persistent neural activity in sensory cortices is not necessary for active maintenance of information in WM. Previous studies in humans have measured putative memory representations indirectly, by decoding memory contents from neural activity evoked by a neutral impulse stimulus. However, it is unclear whether memory contents can also be decoded in different species and attentional conditions.