Differential electroencephalography responses in speech perception between native and non-native speakers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Native and non-native listeners rely on different neural strategies when processing speech in their respective native and non-native languages, encoding distinct features of speech from acoustic to linguistic content in different ways. This study investigated differences in neural responses between native English and Korean speaker when they passively listened to speech in their native and non-native languages using electroencephalography.

Methods

The study employed two approaches to examine neural responses: Temporal Response Functions (TRFs) measure how the brain tracks continuous speech features (i.e., speech envelope, phoneme onset, phonemic surprisal, and semantic dissimilarity), and Phoneme-Related Potentials (PRPs) assess phonemic-level processes.

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SUBMITTER: Quan LDA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12592156 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature