FIGURE 2.

Perceptual and high‐level attention processes during the narrative. At the group level, the sound envelope of the narrative predicted significant (p < .05; family‐wise error [FWE] corrected) clusters in the (a) auditory cortex and right inferior frontal gyrus during wakefulness, and (b) left auditory cortex in moderate anaesthesia (did not reach statistical significance [p = .05 FWE corrected]). (c, d) At the group level, the suspense ratings of the audio narrative predicted significant (p < .05; FWE corrected) clusters in the (c) auditory attention and salience networks during wakefulness, and (d) auditory attention network during moderate anaesthesia. Red arrows indicate the location of the coronal views with respect to the anterior–posterior dimension. (e–h) The number of voxels in primary auditory regions, auditory attention regions, and salience networks of individual participants that were predicted by the sound envelope and suspense ratings, relative to each individual's reaction time in the target detection task. At the individual level, the sound envelope predicted significant activations in the auditory regions in (e) 14/17 of participants during wakefulness, and (f) 10/17 of participants during moderate anaesthesia. At the individual level, the suspense ratings predicted significant activations in the auditory attention and salience network regions in (g) 17/17 of participants during the wakefulness and (h) 14/17 of participants during moderate anaesthesia. There was no correlation between the perceptual or higher‐order processes during the narrative and reaction times, during the target detection task, either in wakefulness (e, g) or in moderate anaesthesia (f, h). AAN, auditory attention network; SN, salience network