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Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...

How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.

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Hemispheric specializations affect interhemispheric speech sound integration during duplex perception - PubMed The present study investigated whether speech-related spectral information benefits from initially predominant right or left hemisphere processing. Normal hearing individuals categorized speech sounds...

what do you have in mind? something like this? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31067965/ I could send you the code if you wish.

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

Thoughtful and generative piece on lateralization by @basilpreisig.bsky.social and Martin Meyer. An important perspective on issues that remain complex. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... right-lateralized spectral >left-lateralized temporal; Stronger lateralization for speech; top-down processes drive/amplify lateralized speech processing

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We illustrate that these top-down processes rely on left-lateralized sensorimotor networks und we ask what differentiates sensorimotor networks in the left from those in the right hemisphere
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In this article, we review studies suggesting that predictive speech processing and dimension-selective attention enhance lateralization.
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We believe that pronounced lateralization in speech processing arises because interpreting speech sounds engages a more complex, interconnected network than processing simple sounds—one that uses top-down mechanisms to actively shape input.
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Spectro-temporal processing during speech perception... : NeuroReport l results revealed a difference in the processing mode; spectro-temporal integration occurred during speech perception, but not when stimuli were perceived as nonspeech. In terms of neuroimaging, we o...

Interestingly, when training leads us to interpret an acoustic signal as speech—like in studies with sine wave speech—brain response patterns become more lateralized.

See for example Meyer et al. (2005):
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Where and When to Pay Attention: The Neural Systems for Directing Attention to Spatial Locations and to Time Intervals as Revealed by Both PET and fMRI Although attention is distributed across time as well as space, the temporal allocation of attention has been less well researched than its spatial counterpart. A temporal analog of the covert spatial...

In fact, Coull & Nobre (1998) showed that spatial attention activates a right-lateralized frontoparietal network, while temporal attention—possibly more relevant for speech—engages a left-lateralized network.

🔗 www.jneurosci.org/content/18/1...

Still, it’s striking in neurorehabilitation clinics that left-hemisphere MCA strokes often lead to aphasia, while right-sided strokes lead to spatial hemineglect.

This made me wonder long ago whether there’s a link between attention functions and language processing in the left hemisphere.
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Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: what's wrong, what's right and what's left? Over the past 30 years hemispheric asymmetries in speech perception have been construed within a domain-general framework, according to which preferen…

McGettigan & Scott argued that lateralization relates more to linguistic processing, especially for speech(-like) stimuli.

Evidence for fast temporal lateralization is limited (see Oderbolz et al.)

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The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral lateralization as ‘asymmetric sampling in time’ The ‘asymmetric sampling in time’ (AST) hypothesis developed here provides a framework for understanding a range of psychophysical and neuropsychologi…

Therefore, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social (2003) and Zatorre & Belin (2001) proposed that the hemispheres are differently specialized:

🧠 Right processes slow temporal & fine spectral cues,
🧠 Left handles faster temporal info.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Human Temporal Lobe Activation by Speech and Nonspeech Sounds Abstract. Functional organization of the lateral temporal cortex in humans is not well understood. We recorded blood oxygenation signals from the temporal

The lateralization of speech and language is a hallmark of functional brain specialization.

However, thanks to imaging techniques, we now know that auditory speech processing occurs in both hemispheres.

🔗 See Binder et al. (2000): doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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Did you know the Dax family, not Broca, first provided evidence for language lateralization?

Max & Gustave Dax found aphasia occurred mostly in patients with right-sided hemiplegia.

🔗 More (see Level, 2013): pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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