Humans capitalize on statistical cues to discriminate fundamental units of information within complex streams of sensory input. We sought neural evidence for this phenomenon by combining fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) and EEG recordings. Skilled readers were exposed to sequences of linguistic items with decreasing familiarity, presented at a fast rate and periodically interleaved with oddballs. Crucially, each sequence comprised stimuli of the same category, and the only distinction between base and oddball items was the frequency of occurrence of individual tokens within a stream. Frequency-domain analyses revealed robust neural responses at the oddball presentation rate in all conditions, reflecting the discrimination between two locally-emerged groups of items purely informed by token frequency. Results provide evidence for a fundamental frequency-tuned mechanism that operates under high temporal constraints and could underpin category bootstrapping. Concurrently, they showcase the potential of FPVS for providing a direct neural measure of implicit statistical learning. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Frequency-based neural discrimination in fast periodic visual stimulation / De Rosa, Mara; Ktori, Maria; Vidal, Yamil; Bottini, Roberto; Crepaldi, Davide. - In: CORTEX. - ISSN 0010-9452. - 148:(2022), pp. 193-203. [10.1016/j.cortex.2022.01.005]

Frequency-based neural discrimination in fast periodic visual stimulation

Bottini, Roberto;
2022-01-01

Abstract

Humans capitalize on statistical cues to discriminate fundamental units of information within complex streams of sensory input. We sought neural evidence for this phenomenon by combining fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) and EEG recordings. Skilled readers were exposed to sequences of linguistic items with decreasing familiarity, presented at a fast rate and periodically interleaved with oddballs. Crucially, each sequence comprised stimuli of the same category, and the only distinction between base and oddball items was the frequency of occurrence of individual tokens within a stream. Frequency-domain analyses revealed robust neural responses at the oddball presentation rate in all conditions, reflecting the discrimination between two locally-emerged groups of items purely informed by token frequency. Results provide evidence for a fundamental frequency-tuned mechanism that operates under high temporal constraints and could underpin category bootstrapping. Concurrently, they showcase the potential of FPVS for providing a direct neural measure of implicit statistical learning. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
2022
De Rosa, Mara; Ktori, Maria; Vidal, Yamil; Bottini, Roberto; Crepaldi, Davide
Frequency-based neural discrimination in fast periodic visual stimulation / De Rosa, Mara; Ktori, Maria; Vidal, Yamil; Bottini, Roberto; Crepaldi, Davide. - In: CORTEX. - ISSN 0010-9452. - 148:(2022), pp. 193-203. [10.1016/j.cortex.2022.01.005]
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