How does the human brain process noisy speech in real life? Insights from the second-person neuroscience perspective

Z Li, D Zhang - Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2024 - Springer
Comprehending speech with the existence of background noise is of great importance for
human life. In the past decades, a large number of psychological, cognitive and …

Speaker–listener neural coupling reveals a right-lateralized mechanism for non-native speech-in-noise comprehension

Z Li, B Hong, D Wang, G Nolte, AK Engel… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
While the increasingly globalized world has brought more and more demands for non-native
language communication, the prevalence of background noise in everyday life poses a …

[HTML][HTML] Leading and following: Noise differently affects semantic and acoustic processing during naturalistic speech comprehension

X Zhang, J Li, Z Li, B Hong, T Diao, X Ma, G Nolte… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the distortion of speech signals caused by unavoidable noise in daily life, our ability
to comprehend speech in noisy environments is relatively stable. However, the neural …

Speaker–listener neural coupling correlates with semantic and acoustic features of naturalistic speech

Z Li, B Hong, G Nolte, AK Engel… - Social Cognitive and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent research has extensively reported the phenomenon of inter-brain neural coupling
between speakers and listeners during speech communication. Yet, the specific speech …

[PDF][PDF] How our brains make sense of noisy speech

J Peelle, A Wingfield - Acoustics Today, 2022 - acousticstoday.org
In August 1909, the French otolaryngologist Étiene Lombard came before a meeting of the
French Academy of Sciences to report on the phenomenon that now bears his name. In the …

Speaker–listener neural coupling reveals an adaptive mechanism for speech comprehension in a noisy environment

Z Li, J Li, B Hong, G Nolte, AK Engel, D Zhang - Cerebral Cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Comprehending speech in noise is an essential cognitive skill for verbal communication.
However, it remains unclear how our brain adapts to the noisy environment to achieve …

Neural Decoding of Spontaneous Overt and Intended Speech

D Dash, P Ferrari, J Wang - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: The aim of this study was to decode intended and overt speech from
neuromagnetic signals while the participants performed spontaneous overt speech tasks …

Neural correlates of sine-wave speech intelligibility in human frontal and temporal cortex

S Khoshkhoo, MK Leonard, N Mesgarani, EF Chang - Brain and language, 2018 - Elsevier
Auditory speech comprehension is the result of neural computations that occur in a broad
network that includes the temporal lobe auditory cortex and the left inferior frontal cortex. It …

Hearing and seeing meaning in noise: Alpha, beta, and gamma oscillations predict gestural enhancement of degraded speech comprehension

L Drijvers, A Özyürek, O Jensen - Human brain mapping, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
During face‐to‐face communication, listeners integrate speech with gestures. The semantic
information conveyed by iconic gestures (eg, a drinking gesture) can aid speech …

A multisensory cortical network for understanding speech in noise

CW Bishop, LM Miller - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
In noisy environments, listeners tend to hear a speaker's voice yet struggle to understand
what is said. The most effective way to improve intelligibility in such conditions is to watch …