期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 109, 期 12, 页码 3082-3093出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01026.2012
关键词
EEG; independent component analysis; selective attention; speech envelopes; phase-locking
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health [2R01-MH-68004]
- Army Research Office [ARO 54228-LS-MUR]
People are highly skilled at attending to one speaker in the presence of competitors, but the neural mechanisms supporting this remain unclear. Recent studies have argued that the auditory system enhances the gain of a speech stream relative to competitors by entraining (or phase-locking) to the rhythmic structure in its acoustic envelope, thus ensuring that syllables arrive during periods of high neuronal excitability. We hypothesized that such a mechanism could also suppress a competing speech stream by ensuring that syllables arrive during periods of low neuronal excitability. To test this, we analyzed high-density EEG recorded from human adults while they attended to one of two competing, naturalistic speech streams. By calculating the cross-correlation between the EEG channels and the speech envelopes, we found evidence of entrainment to the attended speech's acoustic envelope as well as weaker yet significant entrainment to the unattended speech's envelope. An independent component analysis (ICA) decomposition of the data revealed sources in the posterior temporal cortices that displayed robust correlations to both the attended and unattended envelopes. Critically, in these components the signs of the correlations when attended were opposite those when unattended, consistent with the hypothesized entrainment-based suppressive mechanism.
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