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Dynamic Encoding of Speech Sequence Probability in Human Temporal Cortex
Abstract: Sensory processing involves identification of stimulus features, but also integration with the surrounding sensory and cognitive context. Previous work in animals and humans has shown fine-scale sensitivity to context in the form of learned knowledge about the statistics of the sensory environment, including relative probabilities of discrete units in a stream of sequential auditory input. These statistics are a defining characteristic of one of the most important sequential signals humans encounter: speech. For speech, extensive exposure to a language tunes listeners to the statistics of sound sequences. To address how speech sequence statistics are neurally encoded, we used high-resolution direct cortical recordings from human lateral superior temporal cortex as subjects listened to words and nonwords with varying transition probabilities between sound segments. In addition to their sensitivity to acoustic features (including contextual features, such as coarticulation), we found that neural responses dynamically encoded the language-level probability of both preceding and upcoming speech sounds. Transition probability first negatively modulated neural responses, followed by positive modulation of neural responses, consistent with coordinated predictive and retrospective recognition processes, respectively. Furthermore, transition probability encoding was different for real English words compared with nonwords, providing evidence for online interactions with high-order linguistic knowledge. These results demonstrate that sensory processing of deeply learned stimuli involves integrating physical stimulus features with their contextual sequential structure. Despite not being consciously aware of phoneme sequence statistics, listeners use this information to process spoken input and to link low-level acoustic representations with linguistic information about word identity and meaning.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25948269
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4100-14.2015
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420784/
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Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners
Ferjan Ramirez, Naja; Leonard, Matthew K.; Torres, Christina. - : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Speech-Specific Tuning of Neurons in Human Superior Temporal Gyrus
Travis, Katherine E.; Hochberg, Leigh R.; Eskandar, Emad. - : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners
Ferjan Ramirez, Naja; Leonard, Matthew K.; Torres, Christina. - : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Speech-Specific Tuning of Neurons in Human Superior Temporal Gyrus
Chan, Alexander M.; Dykstra, Andrew R.; Jayaram, Vinay. - : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Independence of Early Speech Processing from Word Meaning
Travis, Katherine E.; Leonard, Matthew K.; Chan, Alexander M.. - : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Word Understanding in 12- to 18-Month-Old-Infants
Travis, Katherine E.; Leonard, Matthew K.; Brown, Timothy T.. - : Oxford University Press, 2011
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Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Word Understanding in 12- to 18-Month-Old-Infants
Travis, Katherine E.; Leonard, Matthew K.; Brown, Timothy T.. - : Oxford University Press, 2011
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