ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience2020
Perception of Rhythmic Speech Is Modulated by Focal Bilateral Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation.
Article in Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05446350 (Modulating Speech Perception With Current Stimulation), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers.
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Modulating Speech Perception With Current Stimulation (SPEECHSTIM)
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Manipulating speech perception with amplitude-modulated kilohertz magnetic perturbation (AM-kTMP).bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Enhancing speech recall and reducing cognitive load through rhythmic amplitude modulated vibrotactile stimulation in noise.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Hallucination Proneness is Linked to Over-Reliance on Internal Priors for Noisy Speech.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Cutaneous Alternating Current Stimulation Can Cause a Phasic Modulation of Speech Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The Inattentional Rhythm in Audition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Individualized frequency and montage tACS to engage theta-gamma coupling and enhance working memory in mild cognitive impairment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Phase Alignment of Low-Frequency Neural Activity to the Amplitude Envelope of Speech Reflects Evoked Responses to Acoustic Edges, Not Oscillatory Entrainment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Differential Auditory and Visual Phase-Locking Are Observed during Audio-Visual Benefit and Silent Lip-Reading for Speech Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sustained neural rhythms reveal endogenous oscillations supporting speech perception.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- Improving the Effect of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS): A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Hearing Impaired Participants Improve More Under Envelope-Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation When Signal to Noise Ratio Is High.Neuroscience insights · 2021Article
- The Modulation of Cognitive Performance with Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation: A Systematic Review of Frequency-Specific Effects.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Effects of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation on Human Auditory Processing and Behavior-A Review.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Lacking Effects of Envelope Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Indicate the Need to Revise Envelope Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Methods.Neuroscience insights · 2020Article
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Abstract
Several recent studies have used transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) to demonstrate a causal role of neural oscillatory activity in speech processing. In particular, it has been shown that the ability to understand speech in a multi-speaker scenario or background noise depends on the timing of speech presentation relative to simultaneously applied tACS. However, it is possible that tACS did not change actual speech perception but rather auditory stream segregation. In this study, we tested whether the phase relation between tACS and the rhythm of degraded words, presented in silence, modulates word report accuracy. We found strong evidence for a tACS-induced modulation of speech perception, but only if the stimulation was applied bilaterally using ring electrodes (not for unilateral left hemisphere stimulation with square electrodes). These results were only obtained when data were analyzed using a statistical approach that was identified as optimal in a previous simulation study. The effect was driven by a phasic disruption of word report scores. Our results suggest a causal role of neural entrainment for speech perception and emphasize the importance of optimizing stimulation protocols and statistical approaches for brain stimulation research.
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