Neural tracking of continuous acoustics: properties, speech-specificity and open questions.
Eur J Neurosci
; 59(3): 394-414, 2024 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-38151889
ABSTRACT
Human speech is a particularly relevant acoustic stimulus for our species, due to its role of information transmission during communication. Speech is inherently a dynamic signal, and a recent line of research focused on neural activity following the temporal structure of speech. We review findings that characterise neural dynamics in the processing of continuous acoustics and that allow us to compare these dynamics with temporal aspects in human speech. We highlight properties and constraints that both neural and speech dynamics have, suggesting that auditory neural systems are optimised to process human speech. We then discuss the speech-specificity of neural dynamics and their potential mechanistic origins and summarise open questions in the field.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Speech
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Speech Perception
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Eur J Neurosci
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Eur. j. neurosci
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European journal of neuroscience
Journal subject:
NEUROLOGIA
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France