Investigating the effect of rTMS over the temporoparietal cortex on the Right Ear Advantage for perceived and imagined voices.

ABSTRACT: A Right Ear Advantage (REA) is well-established in perceptual tasks but it has been found also during imagery. It is ascribed to the left temporoparietal activity for language, and it can be absent/reversed in some clinical conditions including auditory hallucinations. We applied 1-Hz repetitive TMS over TP3/TP4 (left/right language areas) identified through neuronavigation in 18 healthy participants, before administering a modified white noise (WN) speech illusion paradigm: a voice was presented at one ear, at the same or lower intensities with respect to binaural WN. In some trials the voice was not presented, but participants were anyway instructed to report in which ear they believed perceiving it in all trials. Results confirmed the REA both when the voice was present (perceptual REA)

SUBMITTER: Prete G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496506 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature