TY - JOUR T1 - An integrative view on attentional modulation in naturalistic speech JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2022.10.02.510499 SP - 2022.10.02.510499 AU - Jiawei Li AU - Bo Hong AU - Guido Nolte AU - Andreas K. Engel AU - Dan Zhang Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/12/06/2022.10.02.510499.abstract N2 - Attending to a speaker is a complex process: to hear sound waves that represent acoustic features; to understand the meaning of words that represent semantic features; and the listener and speaker need to be aligned to form a common ground, which represents inter-brain features. Little is known about how attention modulates these features from the speaker in an integrative way. Adopting naturalistic speech, combing with natural language processing models and inter-brain EEG analysis methods, we measured how listener responses to different information from the attended speaker simultaneously. Our result reveals that: the sound is the first to be processed; the meaning of the attended speech is parsed after that. The listener’s mind aligned to the speaker even seconds before the speech begins. Together, our results illustrated how our brain is selectively entrained to different types of information from the speaker in an integrative view.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -