Cortical entrainment to continuous speech: functional roles and interpretations

N Ding, JZ Simon - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Auditory cortical activity is entrained to the temporal envelope of speech, which corresponds
to the syllabic rhythm of speech. Such entrained cortical activity can be measured from …

The Berlin brain-computer interface: progress beyond communication and control

B Blankertz, L Acqualagna, S Dähne, S Haufe… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The combined effect of fundamental results about neurocognitive processes and
advancements in decoding mental states from ongoing brain signals has brought forth a …

The multivariate temporal response function (mTRF) toolbox: a MATLAB toolbox for relating neural signals to continuous stimuli

MJ Crosse, GM Di Liberto, A Bednar… - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how brains process sensory signals in natural environments is one of the key
goals of twenty-first century neuroscience. While brain imaging and invasive …

Low-frequency cortical entrainment to speech reflects phoneme-level processing

GM Di Liberto, JA O'sullivan, EC Lalor - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
The human ability to understand speech is underpinned by a hierarchical auditory system
whose successive stages process increasingly complex attributes of the acoustic input. It …

Speech intelligibility predicted from neural entrainment of the speech envelope

J Vanthornhout, L Decruy, J Wouters, JZ Simon… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Springer
Speech intelligibility is currently measured by scoring how well a person can identify a
speech signal. The results of such behavioral measures reflect neural processing of the …

Neural markers of speech comprehension: measuring EEG tracking of linguistic speech representations, controlling the speech acoustics

M Gillis, J Vanthornhout, JZ Simon… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

Neural coding of continuous speech in auditory cortex during monaural and dichotic listening

N Ding, JZ Simon - Journal of neurophysiology, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
The cortical representation of the acoustic features of continuous speech is the foundation of
speech perception. In this study, noninvasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings …

Attentional gain control of ongoing cortical speech representations in a “cocktail party”

JR Kerlin, AJ Shahin, LM Miller - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Normal listeners possess the remarkable perceptual ability to select a single speech stream
among many competing talkers. However, few studies of selective attention have addressed …

Auditory-inspired speech envelope extraction methods for improved EEG-based auditory attention detection in a cocktail party scenario

W Biesmans, N Das, T Francart… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the auditory attention detection (AAD) paradigm, where the goal is to
determine which of two simultaneous speakers a person is attending to. The paradigm relies …

Visual input enhances selective speech envelope tracking in auditory cortex at a “cocktail party”

EZ Golumbic, GB Cogan, CE Schroeder… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Our ability to selectively attend to one auditory signal amid competing input streams,
epitomized by the “Cocktail Party” problem, continues to stimulate research from various …