ArticleHearing research2021
Active listening.
Article in Hearing research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
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- SPM-30 years and beyond.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Review
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- Predictive coding in psychopathology: mechanistic model or metaphorical re-description?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Cochlear implantation in adults with acquired single-sided deafness improves cortical processing and comprehension of speech presented to the non-implanted ears: a longitudinal EEG study.Brain communications · 2025Article
- An active inference account of stuttering behavior.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Generative models for sequential dynamics in active inference.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Review
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- A Broken Duet: Multistable Dynamics in Dyadic Interactions.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Fast frequency modulation is encoded according to the listener expectations in the human subcortical auditory pathway.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Federated inference and belief sharing.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Predictive coding and stochastic resonance as fundamental principles of auditory phantom perception.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Review
- Cortical speech tracking is related to individual prediction tendencies.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- 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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Abstract
This paper introduces active listening, as a unified framework for synthesising and recognising speech. The notion of active listening inherits from active inference, which considers perception and action under one universal imperative: to maximise the evidence for our (generative) models of the world. First, we describe a generative model of spoken words that simulates (i) how discrete lexical, prosodic, and speaker attributes give rise to continuous acoustic signals; and conversely (ii) how continuous acoustic signals are recognised as words. The 'active' aspect involves (covertly) segmenting spoken sentences and borrows ideas from active vision. It casts speech segmentation as the selection of internal actions, corresponding to the placement of word boundaries. Practically, word boundaries are selected that maximise the evidence for an internal model of how individual words are generated. We establish face validity by simulating speech recognition and showing how the inferred content of a sentence depends on prior beliefs and background noise. Finally, we consider predictive validity by associating neuronal or physiological responses, such as the mismatch negativity and P300, with belief updating under active listening, which is greatest in the absence of accurate prior beliefs about what will be heard next.
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