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Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words
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In: ISSN: 2045-2322 ; EISSN: 2045-2322 ; Scientific Reports ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03620600 ; Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2022, 12 (1), pp.4391. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-08411-w⟩ (2022)
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Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words
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In: Sci Rep (2022)
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Orthogonal neural codes for speech in the infant brain
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In: ISSN: 0027-8424 ; EISSN: 1091-6490 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03349785 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (31), pp.e2020410118. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2020410118⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; Creating invariant representations from an everchanging speech signal is a major challenge for the human brain. Such an ability is particularly crucial for preverbal infants who must discover the phonological, lexical, and syntactic regularities of an extremely inconsistent signal in order to acquire language. Within the visual domain, an efficient neural solution to overcome variability consists in factorizing the input into a reduced set of orthogonal components. Here, we asked whether a similar decomposition strategy is used in early speech perception. Using a 256-channel electroencephalographic system, we recorded the neural responses of 3-mo-old infants to 120 natural consonant–vowel syllables with varying acoustic and phonetic profiles. Using multivariate pattern analyses, we show that syllables are factorized into distinct and orthogonal neural codes for consonants and vowels. Concerning consonants, we further demonstrate the existence of two stages of processing. A first phase is characterized by orthogonal and context-invariant neural codes for the dimensions of manner and place of articulation. Within the second stage, manner and place codes are integrated to recover the identity of the phoneme. We conclude that, despite the paucity of articulatory motor plans and speech production skills, pre-babbling infants are already equipped with a structured combinatorial code for speech analysis, which might account for the rapid pace of language acquisition during the first year.
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[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience; ERP; infant; language; phoneme; speech
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03349785/file/Gennari_DehaeneLambertz_DecodingPhonemes_BioRxiv2020.pdf
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03349785/document
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020410118
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03349785
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