Rhythm of Silence

Nai Ding; Hongjian He

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.12.006

Rhythm of Silence

Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Feb;20(2):82-84. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.12.006. Epub 2015 Dec 30.

Authors

Nai Ding¹, Hongjian He²

Affiliations

¹ College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Electronic address: ding_nai@zju.edu.cn.
² College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

PMID: 26747701
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.12.006

Abstract

Speech is a complex sound sequence containing statistical regularities on multiple timescales. New research manipulates long-timescale statistical regularities of speech by jittering the duration of silence periods. It provides evidence that low-frequency neural activity (<4 Hz) is tuned to the statistical regularities of natural speech.

Keywords: EEG; Entrainment; Prosody; Rhythm; Speech.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain / physiology*
Humans
Speech Perception / physiology*