Trial reportNature2012
Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception.
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462 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Longitudinal adaptations in neural and behavioral systems following hearing restoration using cochlear implants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Linguistic information may compensate for age-related decline in attentional filtering.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Voice and linguistic features support early attentional filtering of irrelevant stimuli.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- [Dual-stream temporal-frequency convolutional network with additive attention for auditory attention decoding].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026Article
- Neural competition between prefrontal and auditory cortex constrains novel sound strategy learning.Science advances · 2026Article
- From Selective Listening to Brain-Controlled Hearing: A Perspective on the Future of Auditory Technology.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026Review
- Closing the Loop on the Cocktail Party Effect: From Attention Decoding to Neuro-Steered Selective Hearing.Biology · 2026Article
- Perspectives in conducting task-based research in pediatric surgical epilepsy patients.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Noise statistics drive background- and channel-specific interference in auditory midbrain representations of speech.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Enhanced Time-Locked Decoding for Spoken Words but Not Environmental Sounds in Natural-Like Auditory Conditions.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Continuous vs. Interrupted Multi-Talker Babble Background Noise: Impact on Speech Perception in Bimodal Cochlear Implants.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- The shape of attention reflects flexible filtering of natural speech modulations.Communications biology · 2026Article
- The spatially guided cocktail party effect shapes contralateral neural synchronization.Communications biology · 2026Article
- The consistency of task-relevant and task-irrelevant vocal cues modulates speech judgments during dichotic listening.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Rhythmic alternate prioritization in auditory feature-based attention.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Optimized feature gains explain and predict successes and failures of human selective listening.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
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Abstract
Humans possess a remarkable ability to attend to a single speaker's voice in a multi-talker background. How the auditory system manages to extract intelligible speech under such acoustically complex and adverse listening conditions is not known, and, indeed, it is not clear how attended speech is internally represented. Here, using multi-electrode surface recordings from the cortex of subjects engaged in a listening task with two simultaneous speakers, we demonstrate that population responses in non-primary human auditory cortex encode critical features of attended speech: speech spectrograms reconstructed based on cortical responses to the mixture of speakers reveal the salient spectral and temporal features of the attended speaker, as if subjects were listening to that speaker alone. A simple classifier trained solely on examples of single speakers can decode both attended words and speaker identity. We find that task performance is well predicted by a rapid increase in attention-modulated neural selectivity across both single-electrode and population-level cortical responses. These findings demonstrate that the cortical representation of speech does not merely reflect the external acoustic environment, but instead gives rise to the perceptual aspects relevant for the listener's intended goal.
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