Modality general and modality specific coding of hedonic valence

Modality-Specific and Modality-General Encoding of Auditory and Visual Rhythms

Uncertainty in visual and auditory series is coded by modality-general and modality-specific neural systems.

Coding for the degree of disorder in a temporally unfolding sensory input allows for optimized encoding of these inputs via information compression and predictive processing. Prior neuroimaging work has examined sensitivity to statistical regularities within single sensory modalities and has associated this function with the hippocampus, anterior cingulate, and lateral temporal cortex. Here we ...

A meta-analytic review of multisensory imagery identifies the neural correlates of modality-specific and modality-general imagery

The relationship between imagery and mental representations induced through perception has been the subject of philosophical discussion since antiquity and of vigorous scientific debate in the last century. The relatively recent advent of functional neuroimaging has allowed neuroscientists to look for brain-based evidence for or against the argument that perceptual processes underlie mental ima...

Arithmetic Memory Is Modality Specific.

In regards to numerical cognition and working memory, it is an open question as to whether numbers are stored into and retrieved from a central abstract representation or from separate notation-specific representations. This study seeks to help answer this by utilizing the numeral modality effect (NME) in three experiments to explore how numbers are processed by the human brain. The participant...

Reducing the negative valence of stressful memories through emotionally valenced, modality-specific tasks.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES People who perform a cognitively demanding secondary task while recalling a distressing memory often experience the memory as less emotional, vivid, or accurate during subsequent recollections. In this experiment, we tested whether the emotional valence (positive versus neutral) and sensory modality (visual, auditory, or both) of a secondary task diminishes the emotion...