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Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations

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Giraud, Anne-Lise, Poeppel, David·2012·Nature Neuroscience
DOI 10.1038/nn.3063
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Neuronal oscillations are ubiquitous in the brain and may contribute to cognition in several ways: for example, by segregating information and organizing spike timing. Recent data show that delta, theta and gamma oscillations are specifically engaged by the multi-timescale, quasi-rhythmic properties of speech and can track its dynamics. We argue that they are foundational in speech and language processing, 'packaging' incoming information into units of the appropriate temporal granularity. Such stimulus-brain alignment arguably results from auditory and motor tuning throughout the evolution of speech and language and constitutes a natural model system allowing auditory research to make a unique contribution to the issue of how neural oscillatory activity affects human cognition.

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Authors
Giraud, A.-L., & Poeppel, D.
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2012-03-18
Volume
15
Issue
4
Pages
511-517
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
DOI
10.1038/nn.3063
OpenAlex
W2056486423
Cited by
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References
4
FWCI
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Type
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Language
en
Open access
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