Auditory white matter pathways are associated with effective connectivity of auditory prediction errors within a fronto-temporal network

Auditory prediction errors, i.e. the mismatch between predicted, forthcoming auditory sensations and actual sensory input, trigger the detection of surprising auditory events in the environment. Auditory mismatches engage a hierarchical functional network of cortical sources, which are also interconnected by auditory white matter pathways. Hence it is plausible that these structural and functional networks are quantitatively related. The present study set out to investigate whether structural connectivity of auditory white matter pathways enables the effective connectivity underpinning auditory mismatch responses. Participants (N = 89) underwent diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. Anatomically-constrained tractography was used to extract auditory white matter pathways, namely the bilateral arcuate fasciculi, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi (IFOF), and the auditory interhemispheric pathway, from which Apparent Fibre Density (AFD) was calculated. EEG data were recorded in the same participants during a stochastic oddball paradigm, which was used to elicit auditory prediction error responses. Dynamic causal modelling was used to investigate the effective connectivity underlying auditory mismatch responses generated in brain regions interconnected by the above mentioned auditory white matter pathways. Our results showed that brain areas interconnected by all auditory white matter pathways best explained the dynamics of auditory mismatch responses. Furthermore, AFD in the right arcuate fasciculus was significantly associated with the effective connectivity between the cortical regions that lie within it. Taken together, these findings indicate that auditory prediction errors recruit a fronto-temporal network of brain regions that are effectively and structurally connected by auditory white matter pathways.

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