Electrophysiology Reveals the Neural Dynamics of Naturalistic Auditory Language Processing: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Continuous Model Updates

Alday, Phillip M.; Schlesewsky, Matthias

doi:10.1523/eneuro.0311-16.2017

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“…Nonetheless, the naturalistic paradigms remain crucial for understanding speech and language processing in its full complexity, where interactions between both local linguistic and global contextual features, both linguistic (cf. Alday, Schlesewsky, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, 2017) and paralinguistic (Tromp, Peeters, Meyer, & Hagoort, 2017), matter as well as their constant, continuous overlap (cf. Steinberg, Truckenbrodt, & Jacobsen, 2012, who found that stimulus splicing and the resultant misleading formant transitions impact phonological processing).…”

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“…The authors used ridge regression to calculate the TRF and found a negativity with a latency and distribution corresponding to a traditional N400. Broderick and colleagues hesitated to use the N400 label, however, as they had no cloze probability manipulation; nonetheless, in light of more recent N400 perspectives (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011) beyond discrete components (Alday et al, 2017), the resulting component can safely be classified as an N400. Furthermore, noise and cocktail-party attention manipulations attenuated this response.…”

Section: Scaling Up: Using Modern Statistical and Computational Appromentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to the above, Alday et al (2017) used a more traditional ERP analysis, focusing on mean EEG voltage in a fixed time window (300-500 ms), time locked to word onset. Although basic results were presented for an rERPperspective on TRF (no autocorrelation, regression coefficients interpreted as response), the core focus was complex interactions in a longer (23 minute) narrative in German.…”

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“…All of them are based essentially on linear models. Alday et al (2017) and Hale et al (2018) both used a straightforward application of contemporary single-trial ERP analysis with mixed-effects (and two-stage) regression models to accommodate the covariates outside of experimental control (cf. Sassenhagen & Alday, 2016).…”

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M/EEG analysis of naturalistic stories: a review from speech to language processing

Alday

2018

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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M/EEG research using naturally spoken stories as stimuli has focused largely on speech and not language processing. The temporal resolution of M/EEG is a two-edged sword, allowing for the study of the fine acoustic structure of speech, yet easily overwhelmed by the temporal noise of variation in constituent length. Recent theories on the neural encoding of linguistic structure require the temporal resolution of M/EEG, yet suffer from confounds when studied on traditional, heavily controlled stimuli. Recent methodological advances allow for synthesising naturalistic designs and traditional, controlled designs into effective M/EEG research on naturalistic language. In this review, we highlight common threads throughout the at-times distinct research traditions of speech and language processing. We conclude by examining the tradeoffs and successes of three M/EEG studies on fully naturalistic language paradigms and the future directions they suggest.

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2018

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“…Compared to traditional null-hypothesis significance testing, i.e. repeated-measures ANOVAs, multilevel models do not only address the potential significance of a difference between conditions but estimate the difference itself (for more information about multilevel modelling see Alday, Schlesewsky, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, 2017; for general information regarding estimation see Cumming, 2014) (Alday et al, 2017). Parameters estimates can be interpreted as statistically significant (in line with traditional null-hypothesis significance testing) if their credible intervals do not contain zero.…”

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Phasic alerting increases visual processing speed in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

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Joedecke²,

Srowig³

et al. 2020

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External warning cues temporarily increase the brain's sensitivity for upcoming events. Such increased levels of phasic alertness help individuals to flexibly adapt their reactions to the fast-changing requirements of highly complex visual environments. Previous studies reported that both healthy younger and older adults profit from phasic alerting cues. Arguably, such an intact phasic alerting mechanism could be even more relevant in pathologically aging individuals who are characterized by pronounced reductions of general processing capacity. The present study employed a theory of visual attention based whole report paradigm with auditory cues in order to investigate phasic alerting effects in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) on a purely perceptual level. In addition, aMCI patients were compared to a previously reported sample of healthy older adults. The analysis in aMCI patients indicated that their visual processing speed was significantly higher in the cue compared to the no-cue condition. Across groups, auditory alerting cues significantly increased visual processing speed. Further, visual processing speed was reduced in aMCI patients compared to healthy older adults, replicating prior findings. Taken together, the results suggest that the processing system of aMCI patients exhibits general declines but can still flexibly integrate auditory warning signals. Phasic alerting cues facilitate a temporary increase in processing speed, enabling an efficient handling of upcoming sensory information.

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Twelve- and Fourteen-Year-Old School Children Differentially Benefit from Sensorimotor- and Multisensory-Enriched Vocabulary Training

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Both children and adults have been shown to benefit from the integration of multisensory and sensorimotor enrichment into pedagogy. For example, integrating pictures or gestures into foreign language (L2) vocabulary learning can improve learning outcomes relative to unisensory learning. However, whereas adults seem to benefit to a greater extent from sensorimotor enrichment such as the performance of gestures in contrast to multisensory enrichment with pictures, this is not the case in elementary school children. Here, we compared multisensory- and sensorimotor-enriched learning in an intermediate age group that falls between the age groups tested in previous studies (elementary school children and young adults), in an attempt to determine the developmental time point at which children’s responses to enrichment mature from a child-like pattern into an adult-like pattern. Twelve-year-old and fourteen-year-old German children were trained over 5 consecutive days on auditorily presented, concrete and abstract, Spanish vocabulary. The vocabulary was learned under picture-enriched, gesture-enriched, and non-enriched (auditory-only) conditions. The children performed vocabulary recall and translation tests at 3 days, 2 months, and 6 months post-learning. Both picture and gesture enrichment interventions were found to benefit children’s L2 learning relative to non-enriched learning up to 6 months post-training. Interestingly, gesture-enriched learning was even more beneficial than picture-enriched learning for the 14-year-olds, while the 12-year-olds benefitted equivalently from learning enriched with pictures and gestures. These findings provide evidence for opting to integrate gestures rather than pictures into L2 pedagogy starting at 14 years of age.

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Electrophysiology Reveals the Neural Dynamics of Naturalistic Auditory Language Processing: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Continuous Model Updates

Cited by 53 publications

References 83 publications

M/EEG analysis of naturalistic stories: a review from speech to language processing

M/EEG analysis of naturalistic stories: a review from speech to language processing

Phasic alerting increases visual processing speed in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Twelve- and Fourteen-Year-Old School Children Differentially Benefit from Sensorimotor- and Multisensory-Enriched Vocabulary Training

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