[HTML][HTML] Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference

KJ Friston, T Parr, Y Yufik, N Sajid, CJ Price… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a biologically plausible generative model and inference scheme that is
capable of simulating communication between synthetic subjects who talk to each other …

[HTML][HTML] Theta–gamma coupling as a ubiquitous brain mechanism: implications for memory, attention, dreaming, imagination, and consciousness

M Ursino, G Pirazzini - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Brain rhythms play a pivotal role in many cognitive functions.•Theta–gamma
coupling represents a code for memory organization of multiple items.•Recently, it has been …

[HTML][HTML] Delta-and theta-band cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling to sung speech by infants

A Attaheri, ÁN Choisdealbha, GM Di Liberto, S Rocha… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The amplitude envelope of speech carries crucial low-frequency acoustic information that
assists linguistic decoding at multiple time scales. Neurophysiological signals are known to …

Theta‐gamma phase‐amplitude coupling in auditory cortex is modulated by language proficiency

M Lizarazu, M Carreiras, N Molinaro - Human brain map**, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The coordination between the theta phase (3–7 Hz) and gamma power (25–35 Hz)
oscillations (namely theta‐gamma phase‐amplitude coupling, PAC) in the auditory cortex …

Rhythmic modulation of prediction errors: A top-down gating role for the beta-range in speech processing

S Hovsepyan, I Olasagasti… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Natural speech perception requires processing the ongoing acoustic input while kee** in
mind the preceding one and predicting the next. This complex computational problem could …

Second waves, social distancing, and the spread of COVID-19 across the USA

KJ Friston, T Parr, P Zeidman, A Razi… - Wellcome Open …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We recently described a dynamic causal model of a COVID-19 outbreak within a single
region. Here, we combine several instantiations of this (epidemic) model to create a …

Speech reception in young children with autism is selectively indexed by a neural oscillation coupling anomaly

X Wang, J Delgado, S Marchesotti… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Communication difficulties are one of the core criteria in diagnosing autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), and are often characterized by speech reception difficulties, whose …

Impaired neural response to speech edges in dyslexia

M Lizarazu, M Lallier, M Bourguignon, M Carreiras… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Speech comprehension has been proposed to critically rely on oscillatory cortical tracking,
that is, phase alignment of neural oscillations to the slow temporal modulations (envelope) …

Neural entrainment to speech and nonspeech in dyslexia: conceptual replication and extension of previous investigations

M Lizarazu, LS di Covella, V van Wassenhove… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Whether phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia are associated with impaired
neural sampling of auditory information is still under debate. Previous findings suggested …

The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux

J Giroud, A Trébuchon, M Mercier, MH Davis… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Dynamical theories of speech processing propose that the auditory cortex parses acoustic
information in parallel at the syllabic and phonemic timescales. We developed a paradigm to …