Alessandro Tavano and I were were recently awarded an - joint grant for a comparative project on the dynamics of speech tracking in French and German. (1/4)


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We are interested in how rhythmic parameters of the speech signal may engage brain rhythms at similar temporal rates, a currently topical idea in the auditory neuroscience of speech processing. However, we wish to challenge the view that these rhythmic patterns are fixed: at the level of individual utterances, there can be many pauses and variations in speech rate. (2/4)

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Accordingly, speech dynamics are extremely complex, and this complexity needs to be encoded by the human brain. We will use psychophysics and neuroimaging to relate the actual information content in speech at an utterance-by-utterance level, and the corresponding brain rhythms that may be able to encode these features. (3/4)

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