The neural response at the fundamental frequency of speech is modulated by word-level acoustic and linguistic information.

ABSTRACT: Spoken language comprehension requires rapid and continuous integration of information, from lower-level acoustic to higher-level linguistic features. Much of this processing occurs in the cerebral cortex. Its neural activity exhibits, for instance, correlates of predictive processing, emerging at delays of a few 100 ms. However, the auditory pathways are also characterized by extensive feedback loops from higher-level cortical areas to lower-level ones as well as to subcortical structures. Early neural activity can therefore be influenced by higher-level cognitive processes, but it remains unclear whether such feedback contributes to linguistic processing. Here, we investigated early speech-evoked neural activity that emerges at the fundamental frequency. We analyzed EEG recordings obtain

SUBMITTER: Kegler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355803 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature