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Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise
Bertels,Julie Niesen,Maxime Destoky,Florian Coolen,Tim Vander Ghinst,Marc Wens,Vincent Rovai,Antonin Trotta,Nicola Baart,Martijn Molinaro,Nicola
Bertels,Julie
Niesen,Maxime
Destoky,Florian
Coolen,Tim
Vander Ghinst,Marc
Wens,Vincent
Rovai,Antonin
Trotta,Nicola
Baart,Martijn
Molinaro,Nicola
Abstract
Humans’ extraordinary ability to understand speech in noise relies on multiple processes that develop with age. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we characterize the underlying neuromaturational basis by quantifying how cortical oscillations in 144 participants (aged 5 to 27 years) track phrasal and syllabic structures in connected speech mixed with different types of noise. While the extraction of prosodic cues from clear speech was stable during development, its maintenance in a multi-talker background matured rapidly up to age 9 and was associated with speech comprehension. Furthermore, while the extraction of subtler information provided by syllables matured at age 9, its maintenance in noisy backgrounds progressively matured until adulthood. Altogether, these results highlight distinct behaviorally relevant maturational trajectories for the neuronal signatures of speech perception. In accordance with grain-size proposals, neuromaturational milestones are reached increasingly late for linguistic units of decreasing size, with further delays incurred by noise.
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Florian Destoky, Julie Bertels and Mathieu Bourguignon have been supported by the program Attract of Innoviris (grants 2015-BB2B-10 and 2019-BFB-110). Julie Bertels has been supported by a research grant from the Fonds de Soutien Marguerite-Marie Delacroix (Brussels, Belgium). Maxime Niesen has been supported by the Fonds Erasme (Brussels, Belgium). Xavier De Tiège is Post-doctorate Clinical Master Specialist at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium). Mathieu Bourguignon has been supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action of the European Commission (grant 743562). The MEG project at the CUB Hôpital Erasme and this study were financially supported by the Fonds Erasme (Research convention “Les Voies du Savoir”, Brussels, Belgium). The PET-MR project at the CUB Hôpital Erasme is supported by the Association Vinçotte Nuclear (AVN, Brussels, Belgium).
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2023
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ATTENDED SPEECH, ATTENTION, AUDITORY OBJECTS, Audiovisual speech integration, CHILDRENS COMPREHENSION, CORTICAL REPRESENTATION, Cortical tracking of speech (CTS), Development, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE, INFORMATIONAL MASKING, Magnetoencephalography (MEG), SHAPED NOISE, SPATIAL NORMALIZATION, Speech-in-noise (SiN) perception, VISUAL SPEECH
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Bertels, J, Niesen, M, Destoky, F, Coolen, T, Vander Ghinst, M, Wens, V, Rovai, A, Trotta, N, Baart, M, Molinaro, N, De Tiège, X & Bourguignon, M 2023, 'Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise', Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 59, 101181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101181