Low-frequency cortical responses to natural speech reflect probabilistic phonotactics

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 196; pp. 237 - 247
• Main Authors: Di Liberto, Giovanni M., Wong, Daniel, Melnik, Gerda Ana, de Cheveigné, Alain
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2019; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Auditory system; Brain; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Cognitive science; Continuous speech; Cortex; cortical tracking; Data analysis; EEG; Electroencephalography; Encoding (Cognitive process); Evoked Potentials, Auditory; Evoked responses; Female; Humans; Identification; Language; Male; Neighbourhood density; Neural coding; Phonemes; Phonetics; Phonology; Phonotactics; Probability; Sensory integration; Speech perception; Speech Perception - physiology; Vocabulary development; Young Adult; Phonemes; cortical tracking; Language; Neighbourhood density; EEG; cortical tracking EEG Language Neighbourhood density Phonemes

Humans comprehend speech despite the various challenges such as mispronunciation and noisy environments. Our auditory system is robust to these thanks to the integration of the sensory input with prior knowledge and expectations built on language-specific regularities. One such regularity regards th...