Language and brain rhythms

titleLanguage and brain rhythms
start_date2024/04/25
schedule16h-17h30
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location_infoNeurocampus Amphitheater
summarySpeech is a dynamic signal and carries relevant acoustic and linguistic information in the temporal domain. Neural analysis of speech, therefore, requires continuous information processing at different time scales in parallel, from relatively brief phonemes to slower sentential information. Research in the neurobiology of speech has started to address this by putting focus on the temporal aspect of neural activity. In particular, neural dynamics have been shown to follow the rhythmic temporal structure of spoken utterances at distinct time scales. This phenomenon is sometimes described as ‘neural tracking’ or ‘neural entrainment’. In this presentation, I will discuss studies that investigate the role of neural tracking mechanisms in speech processing and their impact on speech segmentation and perception.
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