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ArticleScientific reports2023

Induced alpha and beta electroencephalographic rhythms covary with single-trial speech intelligibility in competition.

Vibha Viswanathan, Hari M Bharadwaj, Michael G Heinz, Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Vibha ViswanathanNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. vibhavis@andrew.cmu.edu.
Hari M BharadwajDepartment of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
Michael G HeinzDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Barbara G Shinn-CunninghamNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.

Funding

Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Robust Speech CodingR01DC009838 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Michael G Heinz · 2009 to 2026
$6.1M
Training in Auditory and Vestibular NeuroscienceT32DC011499 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Karl Kandler, BILL J YATES · 2011 to 2026
$3.0M
Individualized assays of supra-threshold hearing deficitsR01DC015989 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI HEINZ, MICHAEL G · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
Individual differences in supra-threshold sound encodingR01DC013825 · NIDCD · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI SHINN-CUNNINGHAM, BARBARA · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
Cortical processing of informational maskingR01DC019126 · NIDCD · NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SHINN-CUNNINGHAM, BARBARA · 2020 to 2025
$1.3M
Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Speech Intelligibility in Noise - A Quantitative FrameworkF31DC017381 · NIDCD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI VISWANATHAN, VIBHA · 2018 to 2020
$134k
Flexible representation of speech in human auditory cortexF32DC020649 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI VISWANATHAN, VIBHA · 2022 to 2022
$33k
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Abstract

Neurophysiological studies suggest that intrinsic brain oscillations influence sensory processing, especially of rhythmic stimuli like speech. Prior work suggests that brain rhythms may mediate perceptual grouping and selective attention to speech amidst competing sound, as well as more linguistic aspects of speech processing like predictive coding. However, we know of no prior studies that have directly tested, at the single-trial level, whether brain oscillations relate to speech-in-noise outcomes. Here, we combined electroencephalography while simultaneously measuring intelligibility of spoken sentences amidst two different interfering sounds: multi-talker babble or speech-shaped noise. We find that induced parieto-occipital alpha (7-15 Hz; thought to modulate attentional focus) and frontal beta (13-30 Hz; associated with maintenance of the current sensorimotor state and predictive coding) oscillations covary with trial-wise percent-correct scores; importantly, alpha and beta power provide significant independent contributions to predicting single-trial behavioral outcomes. These results can inform models of speech processing and guide noninvasive measures to index different neural processes that together support complex listening.

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Speech IntelligibilitySpeech PerceptionAuditory PerceptionElectroencephalographyNoise

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