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The interplay of top-down focal attention and the cortical tracking of speech
Lesenfants, Damien; Francart, Tom
2020In Scientific Reports, 10 (6922)
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Keywords :
eeg; speech processing; attentioin
Abstract :
[en] Many active neuroimaging paradigms rely on the assumption that the participant sustains attention to a task. However, in practice, there will be momentary distractions, potentially influencing the results. We investigated the effect of focal attention, objectively quantified using a measure of brain signal entropy, on cortical tracking of the speech envelope. The latter is a measure of neural processing of naturalistic speech. We let participants listen to 44 minutes of natural speech, while their electroencephalogram was recorded, and quantified both entropy and cortical envelope tracking. Focal attention affected the later brain responses to speech, between 100 and 300 ms latency. By only taking into account periods with higher attention, the measured cortical speech tracking improved by 47%. This illustrates the impact of the participant’s active engagement in the modeling of the brain-speech response and the importance of accounting for it. Our results suggest a cortico-cortical loop that initiates during the early-stages of the auditory processing, then propagates through the parieto-occipital and frontal areas, and finally impacts the later-latency auditory processes in a top-down fashion. The proposed framework could be transposed to other active electrophysiological paradigms (visual, somatosensory, etc) and help to control the impact of participants’ engagement on the results.
Disciplines :
Otolaryngology
Author, co-author :
Lesenfants, Damien ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Service administratif de la Fac. (FPLSE)
Francart, Tom;  KU Leuven > Department of Neurosciences > Experimental Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
Language :
English
Title :
The interplay of top-down focal attention and the cortical tracking of speech
Publication date :
24 April 2020
Journal title :
Scientific Reports
eISSN :
2045-2322
Publisher :
Nature Publishing Group, London, United Kingdom
Volume :
10
Issue :
6922
Peer reviewed :
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