Characterizing the action-observation network through functional near-infrared spectroscopy: A review

EE Condy, HO Miguel, J Millerhagen… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a neuroimaging technique that has
undergone tremendous growth over the last decade due to methodological advantages over …

Analysis of continuous neuronal activity evoked by natural speech with computational corpus linguistics methods

A Schilling, R Tomasello… - Language, Cognition …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the field of neurobiology of language, neuroimaging studies are generally based on
stimulation paradigms consisting of at least two different conditions. Designing those …

Neural representation of the English vowel feature [high]: Evidence from/ε/vs./ɪ

YH Yu, VL Shafer - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many studies have observed modulation of the amplitude of the neural index mismatch
negativity (MMN) related to which member of a phoneme contrast [phoneme A, phoneme B] …

Neurophysiological correlates of asymmetries in vowel perception: An English-French cross-linguistic event-related potential study

L Polka, M Molnar, TC Zhao… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Behavioral studies examining vowel perception in infancy indicate that, for many vowel
contrasts, the ease of discrimination changes depending on the order of stimulus …

Asymmetries in accessing vowel representations are driven by phonological and acoustic properties: Neural and behavioral evidence from natural German minimal …

M Riedinger, A Nagels, A Werth… - Frontiers in human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In vowel discrimination, commonly found discrimination patterns are directional asymmetries
where discrimination is faster (or easier) if differing vowels are presented in a certain …

Neural processing of spectral and durational changes in speech and non-speech stimuli: an MMN study with Czech adults

N Nudga, J Urbanec, Z Oceláková… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neural discrimination of auditory contrasts is usually studied via the mismatch negativity
(MMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERPs). In the processing of speech …

Electrophysiological signatures of perceiving alternated tone in Mandarin Chinese: Mismatch negativity to underlying tone conflict

Y Zeng, R Fiorentino, J Zhang - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although phonological alternation is prevalent in languages, the process of perceiving
phonologically alternated sounds is poorly understood, especially at the neurolinguistic …

(A) Symmetry in vowel features in verbs and pseudoverbs: ERP evidence

S Kotzor, B Zhou, A Lahiri - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the processing of height and place contrasts in vowels in words and
pseudowords, using mismatch negativity (MMN) to determine firstly whether asymmetries …

Unified coding of spectral and temporal phonetic cues: Electrophysiological evidence for abstract phonological features

PJ Monahan, J Schertz, Z Fu, A Pérez - Journal of cognitive …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Spoken word recognition models and phonological theory propose that abstract features
play a central role in speech processing. It remains unknown, however, whether auditory …

Neurocomputational Properties of Speech Sound Perception and Production

M Grimaldi - Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future …, 2023 - Springer
Speakers acquire, comprehend, and produce speech effortlessly, notwithstanding its
complexity, variability, and dynamicity. This is possible thanks to sophisticated neuronal …