Speech rhythms and their neural foundations

D Poeppel, MF Assaneo - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

Acoustically driven cortical δ oscillations underpin prosodic chunking

JM Rimmele, D Poeppel, O Ghitza - Eneuro, 2021 - eneuro.org
Oscillation-based models of speech perception postulate a cortical computational principle
by which decoding is performed within a window structure derived by a segmentation …

Auditory-motor synchronization varies among individuals and is critically shaped by acoustic features

C Mares, R Echavarría Solana, MF Assaneo - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The ability to synchronize body movements with quasi-regular auditory stimuli represents a
fundamental trait in humans at the core of speech and music. Despite the long trajectory of …

MEG sensor selection for neural speech decoding

D Dash, A Wisler, P Ferrari, EM Davenport… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direct decoding of speech from the brain is a faster alternative to current
electroencephalography (EEG) speller-based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in providing …

Common principles in the lateralization of auditory cortex structure and function for vocal communication in primates and rodents

P Ruthig, M Schönwiesner - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes recent findings on the lateralization of communicative sound
processing in the auditory cortex (AC) of humans, non‐human primates and rodents …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic causal modelling of auditory surprise during disconnected consciousness: the role of feedback connectivity

CP Casey, S Tanabe, Z Farahbakhsh, M Parker, A Bo… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
The neural mechanisms through which individuals lose sensory awareness of their
environment during anesthesia remains poorly understood despite being of vital importance …

Neural tracking measures of speech intelligibility: Manipulating intelligibility while kee** acoustics unchanged

IMD Karunathilake… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neural speech tracking has advanced our understanding of how our brains rapidly map an
acoustic speech signal onto linguistic representations and ultimately meaning. It remains …

Musical sophistication and speech auditory-motor coupling: easy tests for quick answers

JM Rimmele, P Kern, C Lubinus, K Frieler… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Musical training enhances auditory-motor cortex coupling, which in turn facilitates music and
speech perception. How tightly the temporal processing of music and speech are intertwined …

Individual theta-band cortical entrainment to speech in quiet predicts word-in-noise comprehension

R Becker, A Hervais-Adelman - Cerebral Cortex …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Speech elicits brain activity time-locked to its amplitude envelope. The resulting speech-
brain synchrony (SBS) is thought to be crucial to speech parsing and comprehension. It has …

Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms

C Lubinus, A Keitel, J Obleser… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When speech is too fast, the tracking of the acoustic signal along the auditory pathway
deteriorates, leading to suboptimal speech segmentation and decoding of speech …