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ReviewBrain sciences2019

Pushing the Envelope: Developments in Neural Entrainment to Speech and the Biological Underpinnings of Prosody Perception.

Brett R Myers, Miriam D Lense, Reyna L Gordon

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Review in Brain sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Accent type modulates frequency-specific neural tracking of speech.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026
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  5. Cutaneous Alternating Current Stimulation Can Cause a Phasic Modulation of Speech Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Reduced neural speech tracking in adolescents with listening difficulty.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  7. Attention Modulation to Linguistic Speech Units.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
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  18. Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brett R MyersDepartment of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. brett.myers@vanderbilt.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9492-2641
Miriam D LenseDepartment of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. miriam.lense@vumc.org.
Reyna L GordonDepartment of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. reyna.gordon@vanderbilt.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1643-6979

Funding

Research Project: Sensory and Multisensory Contributions to AutismU54HD083211 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 2015 to 2019
$7.1M
Biomarkers of Rhythmic Communication: Integrating Foundational and Translational ApproachesDP2HD098859 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GORDON, REYNA LEIGH · 2018 to 2018
$2.4M
Social Rhythmic Entrainment and Language Development in Autism Spectrum DisordersR21DC016710 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LENSE, MIRIAM · 2018 to 2020
$540k
Rhythm in Atypical Language Development: Mechanisms and Individual DifferencesR03DC014802 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GORDON, REYNA LEIGH · 2015 to 2017
$481k
Mapping the Genetic and Neural Architecture of Human Rhythm and Communication TraitsK18DC017383 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GORDON, REYNA LEIGH · 2018 to 2019
$237k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prosodic cues in speech are indispensable for comprehending a speaker's message, recognizing emphasis and emotion, parsing segmental units, and disambiguating syntactic structures. While it is commonly accepted that prosody provides a fundamental service to higher-level features of speech, the neural underpinnings of prosody processing are not clearly defined in the cognitive neuroscience literature. Many recent electrophysiological studies have examined speech comprehension by measuring neural entrainment to the speech amplitude envelope, using a variety of methods including phase-locking algorithms and stimulus reconstruction. Here we review recent evidence for neural tracking of the speech envelope and demonstrate the importance of prosodic contributions to the neural tracking of speech. Prosodic cues may offer a foundation for supporting neural synchronization to the speech envelope, which scaffolds linguistic processing. We argue that prosody has an inherent role in speech perception, and future research should fill the gap in our knowledge of how prosody contributes to speech envelope entrainment.

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EEGneural entrainmentprosodyrhythmspeech envelope

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PMID30909454
PMCPMC6468669

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