Speech processing often occurs amidst competing inputs from other modalities, e.g., listening to the radio while driving. We examined the extent to which dividing attention between auditory and visual modalities (bimodal divided attention) impacts …
Partial speech input is often understood to trigger rapid and automatic activation of successively higher-level representations of words, from sound to meaning. Here we show evidence from magnetoencephalography that this type of incremental …
When listening to degraded speech, listeners can use high-level semantic information to support recognition. The literature contains conflicting findings regarding older listeners' ability to benefit from semantic cues in recognizing speech, relative …
Prediction is thought to play a central role in efficient speech processing. We used MEG responses to continuous speech to distinguish between competing theories of how such predictions are implemented neurally. We found evidence for multiple predictive models that are engaged in parallel, and use different amounts of context.
Voice pitch carries linguistic as well as non-linguistic information. Previous studies have described cortical tracking of voice pitch in clean speech, with responses reflecting both pitch strength and pitch value. However, pitch is also a powerful …
When listening to speech, our brain responses time-lock to acoustic events in the stimulus. Recent studies have also reported that cortical responses track linguistic representations of speech. However, tracking of these representations is often …
Pervasive behavioral and neural evidence for predictive processing has led to claims that language processing depends upon predictive coding. Formally, predictive coding is a computational mechanism where only deviations from top-down expectations …
Stroke patients with small central nervous system infarcts often demonstrate an acute dysexecutive syndrome characterized by difficulty with attention, concentration, and processing speed, independent of lesion size or location. We use …
Short review of brain responses to continuous speech ("speech tracking"), with a focus on MEG/EEG. Part of a themed issue on the [Physiology of Mammalian Hearing](https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-physiology/vol/18/suppl/C).
Neural processing along the ascending auditory pathway is often associated with a progressive reduction in characteristic processing rates. For instance, the well-known frequency-following response (FFR) of the auditory midbrain, as measured with …