ArticleeLife2021
Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a cocktail party.
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- Do we parse the background into separate streams in the cocktail party?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Expansion in speech time can restore comprehension in a simultaneously speaking bilingual robot.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- Distracting linguistic information impairs neural tracking of attended speech.Current research in neurobiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether this competition is restricted to acoustic-phonetic interference or if it extends to competition for linguistic processing as well. Neural activity was recorded using Magnetoencephalography as human participants were instructed to attend to natural speech presented to one ear, and task-irrelevant stimuli were presented to the other. Task-irrelevant stimuli consisted either of random sequences of syllables, or syllables structured to form coherent sentences, using hierarchical frequency-tagging. We find that the phrasal structure of structured task-irrelevant stimuli was represented in the neural response in left inferior frontal and posterior parietal regions, indicating that selective attention does not fully eliminate linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech. Additionally, neural tracking of to-be-attended speech in left inferior frontal regions was enhanced when competing with structured task-irrelevant stimuli, suggesting inherent competition between them for linguistic processing.
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