Effects of Spectral Degradation on Attentional Modulation of Cortical Auditory Responses to Continuous Speech

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 783-796

  Kong, Ying Yee ^a,b   Somarowthu, Ala ^b   Ding, Nai ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

auditory scene analysis; cochlear implant; cortical entrainment; event related potentials; sound segregation; spectral degradation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL DEGRADATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOPOGRAPHY; WHITE NOISE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947024736     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-015-0540-x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Best V, Gallun FJ, Carlile S, Shinn-Cunningham BG (2007) Binaural interference and auditory grouping. J Acoust Soc Am 121:420–432
2. Bregman AS (1990) Auditory scene analysis: the perceptual organization of sound. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
3. Buschman TJ, Miller EK (2007) Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices. Science 315:1860–1862
4. Culling JF, Darwin CJ (1993) The role of timbre in the segregation of simultaneous voices with intersecting F0 contours. Percept Psychophys 54:303–309
5. Culling JF, Summerfield Q (1995) Perceptual separation of concurrent speech sounds: absence of across-frequency grouping by common interaural delay. J Acoust Soc Am 98:785–797
6. Darwin CJ, Carlyon RP (1995) Auditory grouping. In: Moore BCJ (ed) Hearing. Academic Press, Orlando, FL, pp 387–424
7. Darwin CJ, Hukin RW (2000a) Effectiveness of spatial cues, prosody, and talker characteristics in selective attention. J Acoust Soc Am 107:970–977
8. Darwin CJ, Hukin RW (2000b) Effects of reverberation on spatial, prosodic, and vocal-tract size cues to selective attention. J Acoust Soc Am 108:335–342
9. de Cheveigne A, Simon JZ (2008) Denoising based on spatial filtering. J Neurosci Methods 171:331–339
10. Ding N, Simon JZ (2012a) Emergence of neural encoding auditory objects while listening to competing speakers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:11854–11859
11. Ding N, Simon JZ (2012b) Neural coding of continuous speech in auditory cortex during monaural and dichotic listening. J Neurophysiol 107:78–89
12. Ding N, Simon JZ (2014) Cortical entrainment to continuous speech: functional roles and interpretations. Front Hum Neurosci 8:311. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00311
13. Ding N, Chatterjee M, Simon JZ (2014) Robust cortical entrainment to the speech envelope relies on the spectro-temporal fine structure. Neuroimage 88C:41–46
14. Elhilali M, Fritz JB, Chi TS, Shamma SA (2007) Auditory cortical receptive fields: stable entities with plastic abilities. J Neurosci 27:10372–10382
15. Fischer R, Milfont TL (2010) Standardization in psychological research. Int J Psychol Res 3:88–96
16. Fritz JB, Elhilali M, David SV, Shamma SA (2007) Auditory attention – focusing the searchlight on sound. Curr Opin Neurobiol 17:437–455
17. Greenwood D (1990) A cochlear frequency-position function for several species – 29 years later. J Acoust Soc Am 87:2592–2605
18. Jasper HH (1958) Report of the committee on methods of clinical examination in electroencephalography. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 10:370–375
19. Horton C, Srinivasan R, D'Zmura M (2014) Envelope responses in single-trial EEG indicate attended speaker in a ‘cocktail party.’. J Neural Eng 11:046015. doi:10.1088/1741-2560/11/4/046015
20. Horton C, D'Zmura M, Srinivasan R (2013) Suppression of competing speech through entrainment of cortical oscillations. J Neurophysiol 109:3082–3093
21. Kerlin JR, Shahin AJ, Miller LM (2010) Attentional gain control of ongoing cortical speech representation in a “cocktail party.”. J Neurosci 30:620–628
22. Kidd G Jr, Arbogast TL, Mason CR, Gallun FJ (2005) The advantage of knowing where to listen. J Acoust Soc Am 118:3804–3815
23. Kong Y-Y, Zeng F-G (2006) Temporal and spectral cues in mandarin tone recognition. J Acoust Soc Am 120:2830–2840
24. Kong Y-Y, Mullangi A, Ding N (2014) Differential modulation of auditory responses to attended and unattended speech in different listening conditions. Hear Res 316:73–81
25. Kong Y-Y, Donaldson G, Somarowthu A (2015) Effects of contextual cues on speech recognition in simulated electric-acoustic stimulation. J Acoust Soc Am 137:2846–2857
26. Knol MJ, Pestman WR, Grobbee DE (2011) The (mis)use of overlap of confidence intervals to assess effect modification. Eur J Epidemiol 26:253–254
27. Lalor EC, Power AJ, Reilly RB, Foxe JJ (2009) Resolving precise temporal processing properties of the auditory system using continuous stimuli. J Neurophysiol 102:349–359
28. Massida Z, Belin P, James C, Rouger J, Fraysse B, Barone P, Deguine O (2011) Voice discrimination in cochlear-implanted deaf subjects. Hear Res 275:120–129
29. Mesgarani N, Chang EF (2012) Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception. Nature 485:233–236
30. Moore BCJ (2007) Cochlear hearing loss: physiological, psychological and technical issues. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., West Sussex, UK
31. Oldfield RC (1971) The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9:97–113
32. O’Sullivan JA, Power AJ, Mesgarani N, Rajaram S, Foxe JJ, Shinn-Cunningham BG, Slaney M, Shamma SA, Lalor EC (2014) Atttentional selection in a cocktail party environment can be decoded from single-trial EEG. Cereb Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bht355
33. Oxenham AJ (2008) Pitch perception and auditory stream segregation: implications for hearing loss and cochlear implants. Trends Amplif 12:316–331
34. Peelle JE, Gross J, Davis MH (2013) Phase-locking responses to speech in human auditory cortex are enhanced during comprehension. Cereb Cortex 23:1378–1387
35. Power AJ, Foxe JJ, Forde EJ, Reilly RB, Lalor EC (2012) At what time is the cocktail party? A late locus of selective attention to natural speech. Eur J Neurosci 35:1497–1503
36. Qin MK, Oxenham AJ (2005) Effects of envelope-vocoder processing on F0 discrimination and concurrent-vowel identification. Ear Hear 26:451–460
37. Rimmele JM, Zion Golumbic E, Schroger E, Poeppel D (2015) The effects of selective attention and speech acoustics on neural speech-tracking in a multi-talker scene. Cortex 68:144–154
38. Schroeder CE, Lakatos P (2009) Low-frequency neuronal oscillations as instruments of sensory selection. Trends Neurosci 32:9–18
39. Schroeder CE, Lakatos P, Kajikawa Y, Partan S, Puce A (2008) Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech. Trends Cogn Sci 12:106–113
40. Shamma SA, Elhilali M, Micheyl C (2011) Temporal coherence and attention in auditory scene analysis. Trends Neurosci 34:114–123
41. Shannon RV, Zeng F-G, Kamath V, Wygonski J, Ekelid M (1995) Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues. Science 270:304–304
42. Shinn-Cunningham BG (2008) Object-based auditory and visual attention. Trends Cogn Sci 12:182–186
43. Shinn-Cunningham BG, Best V (2008) Selective attention in normal and impaired hearing. Trends Amplif 12:283–299
44. Stickney GS, Zeng FG, Litovsky R, Assmann P (2004) Cochlear implant speech recognition with speech maskers. J Acoust Soc Am 116:1081–1091
45. Zion-Golumbic EM, Ding N, Bickel S, Lakatos P, Schevon CA, Mckhann GM, Goodman RR, Emerson R, Mehta AD, Simon JZ, Poeppel D, Schroeder CE (2013) Mechanisms underlying selective neuronal tracking of attended speech at a “cocktail party.”. Neuron 77:980–991