The neural oscillations of speech processing and language comprehension: state of the art and emerging mechanisms

L Meyer - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language
comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains—somewhat—repetitive trains of air …

Proactive sensing of periodic and aperiodic auditory patterns

JM Rimmele, B Morillon, D Poeppel, LH Arnal - Trends in cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
The ability to predict when something will happen facilitates sensory processing and the
ensuing computations. Building on the observation that neural activity entrains to periodic …

[책][B] Language in our brain: The origins of a uniquely human capacity

AD Friederici - 2017 - books.google.com
A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

Synchronous, but not entrained: exogenous and endogenous cortical rhythms of speech and language processing

L Meyer, Y Sun, AE Martin - Language, Cognition and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Research on speech processing is often focused on a phenomenon termed “entrainment”,
whereby the cortex shadows rhythmic acoustic information with oscillatory activity …

[HTML][HTML] Breathing in waves: Understanding respiratory-brain coupling as a gradient of predictive oscillations

M Brændholt, DS Kluger, S Varga, DH Heck… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breathing plays a crucial role in sha** perceptual and cognitive processes by regulating
the strength and synchronisation of neural oscillations. Numerous studies have …

The structure and statistics of language jointly shape cross-frequency neural dynamics during spoken language comprehension

H Weissbart, AE Martin - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Humans excel at extracting structurally-determined meaning from speech despite inherent
physical variability. This study explores the brain's ability to predict and understand spoken …

Relating natural language aptitude to individual differences in learning programming languages

CS Prat, TM Madhyastha, MJ Mottarella, CH Kuo - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
This experiment employed an individual differences approach to test the hypothesis that
learning modern programming languages resembles second “natural” language learning in …

The power of neural oscillations to inform sentence comprehension: A linguistic perspective

Y Prystauka, AG Lewis - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The field of psycholinguistics is currently experiencing an explosion of interest in the
analysis of neural oscillations—rhythmic brain activity synchronized at different temporal and …

Combining predictive coding and neural oscillations enables online syllable recognition in natural speech

S Hovsepyan, I Olasagasti, AL Giraud - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
On-line comprehension of natural speech requires segmenting the acoustic stream into
discrete linguistic elements. This process is argued to rely on theta-gamma oscillation …

[책][B] The oscillatory nature of language

E Murphy - 2020 - books.google.com
" Introduction There are numerous neurobiological models of language, ranging from those
concerned with speech perception, white matter structure, and the function of dorsal and …