ArticleNature communications2018
Eye activity tracks task-relevant structures during speech and auditory sequence perception.
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- Delta-band neural tracking primarily reflects rule-based chunking instead of semantic relatedness between words.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Overt and implicit prosody contribute to neurophysiological responses previously attributed to grammatical processing.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- How the motor aspect of speaking influences the blink rate.PloS one · 2021Article
- Mining Temporal Dynamics With Support Vector Machine for Predicting the Neural Fate of Target in Attentional Blink.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
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- Pupil Diameter Tracks Statistical Structure in the Environment to Increase Visual Sensitivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
The sensory and motor systems jointly contribute to complex behaviors, but whether motor systems are involved in high-order perceptual tasks such as speech and auditory comprehension remain debated. Here, we show that ocular muscle activity is synchronized to mentally constructed sentences during speech listening, in the absence of any sentence-related visual or prosodic cue. Ocular tracking of sentences is observed in the vertical electrooculogram (EOG), whether the eyes are open or closed, and in eye blinks measured by eyetracking. Critically, the phase of sentence-tracking ocular activity is strongly modulated by temporal attention, i.e., which word in a sentence is attended. Ocular activity also tracks high-level structures in non-linguistic auditory and visual sequences, and captures rapid fluctuations in temporal attention. Ocular tracking of non-visual rhythms possibly reflects global neural entrainment to task-relevant temporal structures across sensory and motor areas, which could serve to implement temporal attention and coordinate cortical networks.
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