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Neural entrainment determines the words we hear

Anne Kösem, Hans Rutger Bosker, Atsuko Takashima, Antje Meyer, Ole Jensen, Peter Hagoort
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/175000
Anne Kösem
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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  • For correspondence: a.kosem@donders.ru.nl
Hans Rutger Bosker
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Atsuko Takashima
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Antje Meyer
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ole Jensen
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3University of Birmingham, Centre for Human Brain Health, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Peter Hagoort
1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Low-frequency neural entrainment to rhythmic input has been hypothesized as a canonical mechanism that shapes sensory perception in time. Neural entrainment is deemed particularly relevant for speech analysis, as it would contribute to the extraction of discrete linguistic elements from continuous acoustic signals. Yet, its causal influence in speech perception has been difficult to establish. Here, we provide evidence that oscillations build temporal predictions about the duration of speech tokens that directly influence perception. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we studied neural dynamics during listening to sentences that changed in speech rate. We observed neural entrainment to preceding speech rhythms persisting for several cycles after the change in rate. The sustained entrainment was associated with changes in the perceived duration of the last word’s vowel, resulting in the perception of words with radically different meanings. These findings support oscillatory models of speech processing, suggesting that neural oscillations actively shape speech perception.

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Anne Kösem, Hans Rutger Bosker, Atsuko Takashima, Antje Meyer, Ole Jensen, Peter Hagoort
bioRxiv 175000; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/175000
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Anne Kösem, Hans Rutger Bosker, Atsuko Takashima, Antje Meyer, Ole Jensen, Peter Hagoort
bioRxiv 175000; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/175000

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