Interview with researcher Alejandro Omar Blenkman on auditory prediction in the brain, how it works and how to capture it through electrophysiology. [Interview date 2026-06-24]
- [0:52] Background
- [1:47] Research
- [4:12] Intracranial EEG
- [4:44] Brain Studies
- [5:07] Epilepsy Research
- [6:13] Rhythm & Music
- [7:57] Attention
- [12:46] The Insula
- [15:52] Auditory Processing
- [17:32] Measurement
- [20:42] Statistics
- [27:58] Prefrontal Cortex
- [31:38] Novelty Signal
- [34:03] Unexpected Events
- [36:47] The iElectrodes Toolbox
- [39:27] Multiple Subjects
- [42:54] The Solution
Links
- Blenkmann, A. O., Collavini, S., Lubell, J., Llorens, A., Funderud, I., Ivanovic, J., ... & Solbakk, A. K. (2019). Auditory deviance detection in the human insula: An intracranial EEG study. Cortex, 121, 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.09.002
- Blenkmann, A. O., Leske, S. L., Llorens, A., Lin, J. J., Chang, E. F., Brunner, P., ... & Solbakk, A. K. (2024). Anatomical registration of intracranial electrodes. Robust model-based localization and deformable smooth brain-shift compensation methods. Journal of neuroscience methods, 404, 110056. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110056
- Asko, O., Blenkmann, A. O., Leske, S. L., Foldal, M. D., LLorens, A., Funderud, I., ... & Solbakk, A. K. (2024). Altered hierarchical auditory predictive processing after lesions to the orbitofrontal cortex. Elife, 13, e86386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86386
- Asko, O., Volehaugen, V. A., Llorens, A., Funderud, I., Leske, S. L., Ivanovic, J., ... & Blenkmann, A. O. (2025). Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv.DOI: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12393564/ (Preprint)
- Fuhrer, J., Glette, K., Ivanovic, J., Larsson, P. G., Bekinschtein, T., Kochen, S., ... & Blenkmann, A. (2025). Direct brain recordings reveal implicit encoding of structure in random auditory streams: J. Fuhrer et al. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 14725. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98865-5
- Carvalho, V. R., Nasimbera, A. H., Kochen, S., Solbakk, A. K., & Blenkmann, A. O. (2026). Human Single‐Neuron Responses to Multi‐Feature Auditory Deviants: Evidence From Medial Temporal Lobe. European Journal of Neuroscience, 63(12), e70573. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70573