Neural tracking as a diagnostic tool to assess the auditory pathway

M Gillis, J Van Canneyt, T Francart, J Vanthornhout - Hearing Research, 2022 - Elsevier
When a person listens to sound, the brain time-locks to specific aspects of the sound. This is
called neural tracking and it can be investigated by analysing neural responses (eg …

A tradeoff between acoustic and linguistic feature encoding in spoken language comprehension

F Tezcan, H Weissbart, AE Martin - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
When we comprehend language from speech, the phase of the neural response aligns with
particular features of the speech input, resulting in a phenomenon referred to as neural …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Neural tracking of speech envelope does not unequivocally reflect intelligibility

A Kösem, B Dai, JM McQueen, P Hagoort - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
During listening, brain activity tracks the rhythmic structures of speech signals. Here, we
directly dissociated the contribution of neural envelope tracking in the processing of speech …

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 …

Neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss

T Van Hirtum, B Somers, B Dieudonné, E Verschueren… - Hearing Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Early assessment of hearing aid benefit is crucial, as the extent to which hearing aids
provide audible speech information predicts speech and language outcomes. A growing …

Neural tracking measures of speech intelligibility: Manipulating intelligibility while keeping acoustics unchanged

IMD Karunathilake… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neural speech tracking has advanced our understanding of how our brains rapidly map an
acoustic speech signal onto linguistic representations and ultimately meaning. It remains …

Contributions of listening effort and intelligibility to cortical tracking of speech in adverse listening conditions

H Ershaid, M Lizarazu, D McLaughlin, M Cooke… - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Cortical tracking of speech is vital for speech segmentation and is linked to speech
intelligibility. However, there is no clear consensus as to whether reduced intelligibility leads …

Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms

C Lubinus, A Keitel, J Obleser… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When speech is too fast, the tracking of the acoustic signal along the auditory pathway
deteriorates, leading to suboptimal speech segmentation and decoding of speech …

Detecting post-stroke aphasia using EEG-based neural envelope tracking of natural speech

P De Clercq, J Kries, R Mehraram… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
[Objective]. After a stroke, one-third of patients suffer from aphasia, a language disorder that
impairs communication ability. The standard behavioral tests used to diagnose aphasia are …