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Decoding the Real-Time Neurobiological Properties of Incremental Semantic Interpretation
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Balancing Prediction and Sensory Input in Speech Comprehension: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Word Recognition in Context
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Spoken word recognition in context is remarkably fast and accurate, with recognition times of ∼200 ms, typically well before the end of the word. The neurocomputational mechanisms underlying these contextual effects are still poorly understood. This study combines source-localized electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic (EMEG) measures of real-time brain activity with multivariate representational similarity analysis to determine directly the timing and computational content of the processes evoked as spoken words are heard in context, and to evaluate the respective roles of bottom-up and predictive processing mechanisms in the integration of sensory and contextual constraints. Male and female human participants heard simple (modifier-noun) English phrases that varied in the degree of semantic constraint that the modifier (W1) exerted on the noun (W2), as in pairs, such as “yellow banana.” We used gating tasks to generate estimates of the probabilistic predictions generated by these constraints as well as measures of their interaction with the bottom-up perceptual input for W2. Representation similarity analysis models of these measures were tested against electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic brain data across a bilateral fronto-temporo-parietal language network. Consistent with probabilistic predictive processing accounts, we found early activation of semantic constraints in frontal cortex (LBA45) as W1 was heard. The effects of these constraints (at 100 ms after W2 onset in left middle temporal gyrus and at 140 ms in left Heschl's gyrus) were only detectable, however, after the initial phonemes of W2 had been heard. Within an overall predictive processing framework, bottom-up sensory inputs are still required to achieve early and robust spoken word recognition in context. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Human listeners recognize spoken words in natural speech contexts with remarkable speed and accuracy, often identifying a word well before all of it has been heard. In this study, we investigate the brain systems that support this important capacity, using neuroimaging techniques that can track real-time brain activity during speech comprehension. This makes it possible to locate the brain areas that generate predictions about upcoming words and to show how these expectations are integrated with the evidence provided by the speech being heard. We use the timing and localization of these effects to provide the most specific account to date of how the brain achieves an optimal balance between prediction and sensory input in the interpretation of spoken language.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3573-17.2018
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459221
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335748/
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Relating dynamic brain states to dynamic machine states:Human and machine solutions to the speech recognition problem
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Relating dynamic brain states to dynamic machine states: Human and machine solutions to the speech recognition problem
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Brain Network Connectivity During Language Comprehension: Interacting Linguistic and Perceptual Subsystems
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Grammatical Analysis as a Distributed Neurobiological Function
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Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic
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Brain Network Connectivity During Language Comprehension: Interacting Linguistic and Perceptual Subsystems
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Optimally Efficient Neural Systems for Processing Spoken Language
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Neurobiological systems for lexical representation and analysis in English
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Neural dynamics of inflectional and derivational processing in spoken word comprehension: laterality and automaticity
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Functional organisation of the neural language system: Dorsal and ventral pathways are critical for syntax
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Optimally Efficient Neural Systems for Processing Spoken Language
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Morphological structure in the Arabic mental lexicon: Parallels between standard and dialectal Arabic
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