[HTML][HTML] Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech

C Escera - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Auditory midbrain and thalamus support predictive coding and speech
encoding.•Corticofugal projections are involved, but their specific roles need to be …

Diverse functions of the auditory cortico-collicular pathway

AMH Lesicko, MN Geffen - Hearing research, 2022 - Elsevier
Sensory processing is frequently conceptualized as a linear flow of information from
peripheral receptors through hierarchically organized brain regions, ultimately reaching the …

“Unattended, distracting or irrelevant”: Theoretical implications of terminological choices in auditory selective attention research

S Makov, D Pinto, PH Yahav, LM Miller, EZ Golumbic - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
For seventy years, auditory selective attention research has focused on studying the
cognitive mechanisms of prioritizing the processing a 'main'task-relevant stimulus, in the …

Short-and long-term neuroplasticity interact during the perceptual learning of concurrent speech

J MacLean, J Stirn, A Sisson, GM Bidelman - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Plasticity from auditory experience shapes the brain's encoding and perception of sound.
However, whether such long-term plasticity alters the trajectory of short-term plasticity during …

Rapid enhancement of subcortical neural responses to sine-wave speech

FY Cheng, C Xu, L Gold, S Smith - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The efferent auditory nervous system may be a potent force in shaping how the brain
responds to behaviorally significant sounds. Previous human experiments using the …

The neural response at the fundamental frequency of speech is modulated by word-level acoustic and linguistic information

M Kegler, H Weissbart, T Reichenbach - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Spoken language comprehension requires rapid and continuous integration of information,
from lower-level acoustic to higher-level linguistic features. Much of this processing occurs in …

Inferring mechanisms of auditory attentional modulation with deep neural networks

TY Kuo, Y Liao, K Li, B Hong, X Hu - Neural Computation, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Humans have an exceptional ability to extract specific audio streams of interest in a noisy
environment; this is known as the cocktail party effect. It is widely accepted that this ability is …

Brain-wide inputs to the non-lemniscal inferior colliculus in mice

M Liu, F Xie, J Dai, J Zhang, K Yuan, N Wang - Neuroscience letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The inferior colliculus (IC) is the hub along the auditory pathway. Although it is
fundamentally an auditory structure, the neurons in the IC, especially its non-lemniscal part …

A genome-wide association study reveals a polygenic architecture of speech-in-noise deficits in individuals with self-reported normal hearing

IS Bhatt, JAR Garay, SG Bhagavan, V Ingalls, R Dias… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Speech-in-noise (SIN) perception is a primary complaint of individuals with
audiometric hearing loss. SIN performance varies drastically, even among individuals with …

Enhanced brainstem phase-locking in low-level noise reveals stochastic resonance in the frequency-following response (FFR)

B Shukla, GM Bidelman - Brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
In nonlinear systems, the inclusion of low-level noise can paradoxically improve signal
detection, a phenomenon known as stochastic resonance (SR). SR has been observed in …