The Human Neural Alpha Response to Speech is a Proxy of Attentional Control
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Human alpha (~10 Hz) oscillatory power is a prominent neural marker of cognitive effort. When listeners attempt to process and retain acoustically degraded speech, alpha power enhances. It is unclear whether these alpha modulations reflect the degree of acoustic degradation per se or the degradation-driven demand to a listener's attentional control. Using an irrelevant-speech paradigm and measuring the electroencephalogram (EEG), the current experiment demonstrates that the neural alpha response to speech is a surprisingly clear proxy of top-down control, entirely driven by the listening goals of attending versus ignoring degraded speech. While (n = 23) listeners retained the serial order of 9 to-be-recalled digits, one to-be-ignored sentence was presented. Distractibility of the to-be-ignored sentence parametrically varied in acoustic detail (noise-vocoding), with more acoustic detail of distracting speech increasingly disrupting listeners' serial memory recall. Where previous studies had observed decreases in parietal and auditory alpha power with more acoustic detail (of target speech), alpha power here showed the opposite pattern and increased with more acoustic detail in the speech distractor. In sum, the neural alpha response reflects almost exclusively a listener's goal, which is decisive for whether more acoustic detail facilitates comprehension (of attended speech) or enhances distraction (of ignored speech).
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Alpha oscillations have been associated with temporal integration, attentional control of speech processing, and verbal fluency.
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- Authors
- Wöstmann, M., Lim, S.-J., & Obleser, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Wöstmann, Malte
- Venue
- Cerebral Cortex
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-03-18
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3307-3317
- ISSN
- 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2199
- OpenAlex
- W2596892521
- Cited by
- 141
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 6.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- ERC Volkswagen (ERC-CoG-2014 AUDADAPT, BIT-CHAT)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- alpha oscillations, speech perception, attentional control, top-down control, acoustic degradation, noise-vocoded speech, serial order memory, distractibility, cognitive effort, auditory cortex
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Acoustics, Adult, Alpha Rhythm, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain Mapping, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Reaction Time, Speech Perception, Statistics as Topic, Comprehension, Young Adult
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