Attention Differentially Affects Acoustic and Phonetic Feature Encoding in a Multispeaker Environment

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 682 - 691
• Main Authors: Teoh, Emily S., Ahmed, Farhin, Lalor, Edmund C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 26.01.2022
• Subjects: Acoustic phonetics; Acoustic Stimulation - methods; Acoustics; Adult; Attention; Attention - physiology; EEG; Electroencephalography - methods; Female; Humans; Information processing; Male; Phonetic features; Phonetics; Photic Stimulation - methods; Representations; Research subjects; Speech; Speech - physiology; Speech Perception - physiology; Speech processing; Young Adult; attention; cocktail party; speech; EEG
• ISSN: 0270-6474; 1529-2401; 1529-2401
• DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1455-20.2021

Humans have the remarkable ability to selectively focus on a single talker in the midst of other competing talkers. The neural mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon remain incompletely understood. In particular, there has been longstanding debate over whether attention operates at an early or lat...