ArticleBrain and language2019
Noninvasive neurostimulation of left temporal lobe disrupts rapid talker adaptation in speech processing.
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- Noninvasive Neurostimulation to the Inferior Frontal Sulcus or Cerebellum Improves Accuracy But Not Timing in a Speech Motor Learning Task.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- A review on the reporting and assessment of adverse effects associated with high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Targeted neurorehabilitation strategies in post-stroke aphasia.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2023Review
- Distinct mechanisms for talker adaptation operate in parallel on different timescales.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Attention, task demands, and multitalker processing costs in speech perception.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2021Article
- Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- From speech and talkers to the social world: The neural processing of human spoken language.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Review
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Abstract
Talker adaptation improves speech processing efficiency by reducing possible mappings between talkers' speech acoustics and listeners' phonemic representations. We investigated the functional neuroanatomy of talker adaptation by applying noninvasive neurostimulation (high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation; HD-tDCS) to left superior temporal lobe while participants performed an auditory word identification task. We factorially manipulated talker variability (single vs. mixed talkers) and speech context (isolated words vs. connected speech), measuring listeners' speech processing efficiency under anodal, cathodal, or sham stimulation. Speech processing was faster for single talkers than mixed talkers, and connected speech reduced the additional processing costs associated with mixed-talker speech. However, the beneficial effect of connected speech in the mixed-talker condition was significantly attenuated under both anodal and cathodal stimulation versus sham. Stimulation of left superior temporal lobe disrupts the brain's ability to use local phonetic context to rapidly adapt to a talker, revealing this region's causal role in talker adaptation.
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