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A window into the brain mechanisms associated with noise sensitivity

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  • Marina Kliuchko, University of Helsinki
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  • Marja Heinonen-Guzejev, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland.
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  • Peter Vuust
  • Mari Tervaniemi, Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland.
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  • Elvira Brattico

Noise sensitive individuals are more likely to experience negative emotions from unwanted sounds and they show greater susceptibility to adverse effects of noise on health. Noise sensitivity does not originate from dysfunctions of the peripheral auditory system, and it is thus far unknown whether and how it relates to abnormalities of auditory processing in the central nervous system. We conducted a combined electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography (M/EEG) study to measure neural sound feature processing in the central auditory system in relation to the individual noise sensitivity. Our results show that high noise sensitivity is associated with altered sound feature encoding and attenuated discrimination of sound noisiness in the auditory cortex. This finding makes a step towards objective measures of noise sensitivity instead of self-evaluation questionnaires and the development of strategies to prevent negative effects of noise on the susceptible population.

Original languageEnglish
Article number39236
JournalScientific Reports
Volume6
Pages (from-to)39236
ISSN2045-2322
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Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2016

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