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Lana R Penn1, Nicole D Ayasse1, Arthur Wingfield1, Oded Ghitza2.
Abstract
The rhythms of speech and the time scales of linguistic units (e.g., syllables) correspond remarkably to cortical oscillations. Previous research has demonstrated that in young adults, the intelligibility of time-compressed speech can be rescued by "repackaging" the speech signal through the regular insertion of silent gaps to restore correspondence to the theta oscillator. This experiment tested whether this same phenomenon can be demonstrated in older adults, who show age-related changes in cortical oscillations. The results demonstrated a similar phenomenon for older adults, but that the "rescue point" of repackaging is shifted, consistent with a slowing of theta oscillations.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30404494 PMCID: PMC6181647 DOI: 10.1121/1.5054905
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Acoust Soc Am ISSN: 0001-4966 Impact factor: 1.840