ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Enhancement of speech-in-noise comprehension through vibrotactile stimulation at the syllabic rate.
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- Enhancing speech recall and reducing cognitive load through rhythmic amplitude modulated vibrotactile stimulation in noise.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Top-Down Attention Modulates Phase Effects on Audio-Tactile Processing.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 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
- Neural frequency-tagging of syllables in naturalistic speech is sensitive to background noise and age-related hearing loss.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Testing the auditory steady-state response (ASSR) to 40-Hz and 27-Hz click trains in children with autism spectrum disorder and their first-degree biological relatives: A high-density electroencephalographic (EEG) study.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Vibrotactile speech cues are associated with enhanced auditory processing in middle and superior temporal gyri.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Technologies and Auditory Rehabilitation Beyond Hearing Aids: An Exploratory Systematic Review.Audiology research · 2025Review
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- Improved tactile speech perception using audio-to-tactile sensory substitution with formant frequency focusing.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Improved speech intelligibility in the presence of congruent vibrotactile speech input.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Speech-derived haptic stimulation enhances speech recognition in a multi-talker background.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
SignificanceSyllables are important building blocks of speech. They occur at a rate between 4 and 8 Hz, corresponding to the theta frequency range of neural activity in the cerebral cortex. When listening to speech, the theta activity becomes aligned to the syllabic rhythm, presumably aiding in parsing a speech signal into distinct syllables. However, this neural activity cannot only be influenced by sound, but also by somatosensory information. Here, we show that the presentation of vibrotactile signals at the syllabic rate can enhance the comprehension of speech in background noise. We further provide evidence that this multisensory enhancement of speech comprehension reflects the multisensory integration of auditory and tactile information in the auditory cortex.
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