ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2020
Speech rhythms and their neural foundations.
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186 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production.Nature human behaviour · 2022Pooled it
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- Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Neural rhythms as priors of speech computations.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Music Is Quasi-Rhythmic Too: Comparing Bandwidth in Speech and Music Acoustic Modulation Spectra.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Aberrant Neural Entrainment to Word-Level Speech Patterns in Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for a Statistical Learning Deficit.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
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- Manipulating speech perception with amplitude-modulated kilohertz magnetic perturbation (AM-kTMP).bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Newborns' Language Discrimination May Not Reflect Sensitivity to Speech Rhythm: Evidence From Computational Modeling.Developmental science · 2026Article
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- All About That Bass Drum? Asynchrony Effects on the Perceived Timing of Compound Musical Sounds.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Constituent-constrained word prediction during language comprehension.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Cognitive impairments and neurofunctional alterations in children with electrical status epilepticus during sleep: insights from WISC-IV and resting-state fMRI.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3-10 Hz.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Linking spontaneous speech synchronization and cognitive abilities: evidence from a syllable-timed language.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Reply to 'Rhythms alone cannot explain subjective time'.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy.Developmental science · 2026Article
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- Hemispheric Network Dynamics During Auditory Language Comprehension and Its Clinical Implications Regarding Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
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Abstract
The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently, the 'temporal mesoscale' of speech has been explored, specifically regularities in the envelope of the acoustic signal that correlate with syllabic information and that play a central role in production and perception processes. The temporal structure of speech at this scale is remarkably stable across languages, with a preferred range of rhythmicity of 2- 8 Hz. Importantly, this rhythmicity is required by the processes underlying the construction of intelligible speech. A lot of current work focuses on audio-motor interactions in speech, highlighting behavioural and neural evidence that demonstrates how properties of perceptual and motor systems, and their relation, can underlie the mesoscale speech rhythms. The data invite the hypothesis that the speech motor cortex is best modelled as a neural oscillator, a conjecture that aligns well with current proposals highlighting the fundamental role of neural oscillations in perception and cognition. The findings also show motor theories (of speech) in a different light, placing new mechanistic constraints on accounts of the action-perception interface.
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