| Literature DB >> 23298020 |
Juanjuan Xiang1, David Poeppel, Jonathan Z Simon.
Abstract
Modern psychophysical models of auditory modulation processing suggest that concurrent auditory features with syllabic (~5 Hz) and phonemic rates (~20 Hz) are processed by different modulation filterbank elements, whereas features at similar modulation rates are processed together by a single element. The neurophysiology of concurrent modulation processing at speech-relevant rates is here investigated using magnetoencephalography. Results demonstrate expected neural responses to stimulus modulation frequencies; nonlinear interaction frequencies are also present, but, critically, only for nearby rates, analogous to "beating" in a cochlear filter. This provides direct physiological evidence for modulation filterbanks, allowing separate processing of concurrent syllabic and phonemic modulations.Mesh:
Year: 2013 PMID: 23298020 PMCID: PMC3555506 DOI: 10.1121/1.4769400
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Acoust Soc Am ISSN: 0001-4966 Impact factor: 1.840