Dissociable Auditory Cortico-Cerebellar Pathways in the Human Brain Estimated by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity

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The cerebellum, a structure historically associated with motor control, has more recently been implicated in several higher-order auditory-cognitive functions. However, the exact functional pathways that mediate cerebellar influences on auditory cortex (AC) remain unclear. Here, we sought to identify auditory cortico-cerebellar pathways based on intrinsic functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging. In contrast to previous connectivity studies that principally consider the AC as a single functionally homogenous unit, we mapped the cerebellar connectivity across different parts of the AC. Our results reveal that auditory subareas demonstrating different levels of interindividual functional variability are functionally coupled with distinct cerebellar regions. Moreover, auditory and sensorimotor areas show divergent cortico-cerebellar connectivity patterns, although sensorimotor areas proximal to the AC are often functionally grouped with the AC in previous connectivity-based network analyses. Lastly, we found that the AC can be functionally segmented into highly similar subareas based on either cortico-cerebellar or cortico-cortical functional connectivity, suggesting the existence of multiple parallel auditory cortico-cerebellar circuits that involve different subareas of the AC. Overall, the present study revealed multiple auditory cortico-cerebellar pathways and provided a fine-grained map of AC subareas, indicative of the critical role of the cerebellum in auditory processing and multisensory integration.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

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Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 31(2021), 6 vom: 10. Mai, Seite 2898-2912

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ren, Jianxun [VerfasserIn]
Hubbard, Catherine S [VerfasserIn]
Ahveninen, Jyrki [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Weigang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meiling [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Xiaolong [VerfasserIn]
Luan, Guoming [VerfasserIn]
Han, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Shinn, Ann K [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Danhong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Luming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Hesheng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Auditory cortex
Cerebellum
Functional connectivity
Individual difference
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.02.2022

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cercor/bhaa398

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320593339