Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception
Author
Jin, Yu
Díaz Menéndez, Begoña
Colomer, Marc
Sebastián-Gallés, Núria
Publication date
2014-07-03ISSN
1932-6203
Abstract
Individual differences in second language (L2) phoneme perception (within the normal population) have been related to speech perception abilities, also observed in the native language, in studies assessing the electrophysiological response mismatch negativity (MMN). Here, we investigate the brain oscillatory dynamics in the theta band, the spectral correlate of the MMN, that underpin success in phoneme learning. Using previous data obtained in an MMN paradigm, the dynamics of cortical oscillations while perceiving native and unknown phonemes and nonlinguistic stimuli were studied in two groups of participants classified as good and poor perceivers (GPs and PPs), according to their L2 phoneme discrimination abilities. The results showed that for GPs, as compared to PPs, processing of a native phoneme change produced a significant increase in theta power. Stimulus time-locked analysis event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) showed differences for the theta band within the MMN time window (between 70 and 240 ms) for the native deviant phoneme. No other significant difference between the two groups was observed for the other phoneme or nonlinguistic stimuli. The dynamic patterns in the theta-band may reflect early automatic change detection for familiar speech sounds in the brain. The behavioral differences between the two groups may reflect individual variations in activating brain circuits at a perceptual level.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
81 - Linguistics and languages
Keywords
Llengua materna
Cervell
Llenguatge i llengües -- Adquisició
Lingüística
Lengua materna
Cerebro
Lenguaje -- Adquisición
Lingüística
Native language
Brain
Language and languages -- Acquisition
Linguistics
Pages
7
Publisher
Public Library of Science
Collection
9; 7
Is part of
PLoS One
Citation
Jin, Yu; Díaz Menéndez, Begoña; Colomer, Marc [et al.]. Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception. PLoS One, 2014, 9(7), p. 1-7. Disponible en: <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100901>. Fecha de acceso: 30 oct. 2020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100901
Grant agreement number
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323961
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2012-34071
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/328671
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- Ciències de la Salut [740]
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