ArticleScientific reports2021
Neural encoding of voice pitch and formant structure at birth as revealed by frequency-following responses.
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- Event-Related Brain Potentials and Frequency-Following Response to Syllables in Newborns and Adults.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Bilingual Exposure and Sex Shape Developmental Trajectories of Brain Responses to Speech-Sound Features in Infants.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Predicting speech-in-noise ability with static and dynamic auditory figure-ground analysis using structural equation modelling.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Exposure to bilingual or monolingual maternal speech during pregnancy affects the neurophysiological encoding of speech sounds in neonates differently.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- The frequency-following response in late preterm neonates: a pilot study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Neonatal Frequency-Following Responses: A Methodological Framework for Clinical Applications.Seminars in hearing · 2022Review
- Relevance to the higher order structure may govern auditory statistical learning in neonates.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Linear Superposition Model of Envelope and Frequency Following Responses May Help Identify Generators Based on Latency.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Detailed neural encoding of voice pitch and formant structure plays a crucial role in speech perception, and is of key importance for an appropriate acquisition of the phonetic repertoire in infants since birth. However, the extent to what newborns are capable of extracting pitch and formant structure information from the temporal envelope and the temporal fine structure of speech sounds, respectively, remains unclear. Here, we recorded the frequency-following response (FFR) elicited by a novel two-vowel, rising-pitch-ending stimulus to simultaneously characterize voice pitch and formant structure encoding accuracy in a sample of neonates and adults. Data revealed that newborns tracked changes in voice pitch reliably and no differently than adults, but exhibited weaker signatures of formant structure encoding, particularly at higher formant frequency ranges. Thus, our results indicate a well-developed encoding of voice pitch at birth, while formant structure representation is maturing in a frequency-dependent manner. Furthermore, we demonstrate the feasibility to assess voice pitch and formant structure encoding within clinical evaluation times in a hospital setting, and suggest the possibility to use this novel stimulus as a tool for longitudinal developmental studies of the auditory system.
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