Timing of brain entrainment to the speech envelope during speaking, listening and self-listening

Pérez, A., Davis, M. H., Ince, R. A.A. , Zhang, H., Fu, Z., Lamarca, M., Lambon Ralph, M. A. and Monahan, P. J. (2022) Timing of brain entrainment to the speech envelope during speaking, listening and self-listening. Cognition, 224, 105051. (doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105051) (PMID:35219954) (PMCID:PMC9112165)

Abstract

⁠This study investigates the dynamics of speech envelope tracking during speech production, listening and self-listening. We use a paradigm in which participants listen to natural speech (Listening), produce natural speech (Speech Production), and listen to the playback of their own speech (Self-Listening), all while their neural activity is recorded with EEG. After time-locking EEG data collection and auditory recording and playback, we used a Gaussian copula mutual information measure to estimate the relationship between information content in the EEG and auditory signals. In the 2–10 Hz frequency range, we identified different latencies for maximal speech envelope tracking during speech production and speech perception. Maximal speech tracking takes place approximately 110 ms after auditory presentation during perception and 25 ms before vocalisation during speech production. These results describe a specific timeline for speech tracking in speakers and listeners in line with the idea of a speech chain and hence, delays in communication.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: AP received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840885. MHD received intramural funding from the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_0005/5). RAAI was supported by the Wellcome Trust [214120/Z/18/Z]. MALR was supported by an ERC Advanced grant (GAP: 670428 - BRAIN2MIND_NEUROCOMP) and intramural funding from the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00005/18). This work received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada (IDG 430-15-00647), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) of Canada (RGPIN-2017-06053) granted to PJM.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ince, Dr Robin

Creator Roles

Ince, R. A.A.: Methodology, Software, Writing – review and editing

• Authors: Pérez, A., Davis, M. H., Ince, R. A.A., Zhang, H., Fu, Z., Lamarca, M., Lambon Ralph, M. A., and Monahan, P. J.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience
• Journal Name: Cognition
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0010-0277
• ISSN (Online): 1873-7838
• Published Online: 24 February 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Cognition 224: 105051
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
304240		Beyond Pairwise Connectivity: developing an information theoretic hypergraph methodology for multi-modal resting state neuroimaging analysis	Robin Ince	Wellcome Trust (WELLCOTR)	214120/Z/18/Z	Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging