Attention in flux

AC Nobre, F van Ede - Neuron, 2023‏ - cell.com
Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—
anticipating, prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide …

Neural tracking of continuous acoustics: properties, speech‐specificity and open questions

B Zoefel, A Kösem - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Human speech is a particularly relevant acoustic stimulus for our species, due to its role of
information transmission during communication. Speech is inherently a dynamic signal, and …

Fast and slow rhythms of naturalistic reading revealed by combined eye-tracking and electroencephalography

L Henke, AG Lewis, L Meyer - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023‏ - jneurosci.org
Neural oscillations are thought to support speech and language processing. They may not
only inherit acoustic rhythms, but might also impose endogenous rhythms onto processing …

[HTML][HTML] A representation of abstract linguistic categories in the visual system underlies successful lipreading

AR Nidiffer, CZ Cao, A O'Sullivan, EC Lalor - NeuroImage, 2023‏ - Elsevier
There is considerable debate over how visual speech is processed in the absence of sound
and whether neural activity supporting lipreading occurs in visual brain areas. Much of the …

Cross-modal attentional effects of rhythmic sensory stimulation

U Pomper, B Szaszkó, S Pfister, U Ansorge - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023‏ - Springer
Temporal regularities are ubiquitous in our environment. The theory of entrainment posits
that the brain can utilize these regularities by synchronizing neural activity with external …

Hand gestures as visual prosody: BOLD responses to audio–visual alignment are modulated by the communicative nature of the stimuli

E Biau, LM Fernández, H Holle, C Avila, S Soto-Faraco - Neuroimage, 2016‏ - Elsevier
During public addresses, speakers accompany their discourse with spontaneous hand
gestures (beats) that are tightly synchronized with the prosodic contour of the discourse. It …

Recurrent neural network model of human event-related potentials in response to intensity oddball stimulation

JA O'Reilly - Neuroscience, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the human event-related potential (ERP) is
frequently interpreted as a sensory prediction-error signal. However, there is ambiguity …

Oscillation or not–why we can and need to know (commentary on Doelling and Assaneo, 2021)

S van Bree, A Alamia, B Zoefel - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021‏ - hal.science
Neural oscillations are pivotal to brain function and cognition, but they can be difficult to
identify. Researchers engage in careful experimentation to identify their presence, ruling out …

Faces and voices processing in human and primate brains: Rhythmic and multimodal mechanisms underlying the evolution and development of speech

M Michon, J Zamorano-Abramson, F Aboitiz - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
While influential works since the 1970s have widely assumed that imitation is an innate skill
in both human and non-human primate neonates, recent empirical studies and meta …

[HTML][HTML] Visual speech cues recruit neural oscillations to optimise auditory perception: Ways forward for research on human communication

B Zoefel - Current Research in Neurobiology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In pandemic times, when visual speech cues are masked, it becomes particularly evident
how much we rely on them to communicate. Recent research points to a key role of neural …