Hierarchical Processing in Spoken Language Comprehension

By Matthew H. Davis, Ingrid S. Johnsrude. Journal of Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension (2006, background): “Mid-STS regions in the left hemisphere have recently been linked to phoneme recognition processes (Dehaene-Lambertz et al., 2005; Liebenthal, Binder, Spitzer, Possing, & Medler, 2005; Davis & Johnsrude, 2003; Binder et al., 2000; Scott, Blank, Rosen, & Wise, 2000).”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “Alternative hypotheses were that left lateralization in both temporal and inferior frontal areas were related to a top down attentional bias (Davis and Johnsrude, 2003) or auditory-motor processing (Hickok et al., 2003; Okada and Hickok, 2006; Buchsbaum et al., 2005a,b).”
Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception (2008, background): “…from PAC and closely surrounding regions towards anterior (ATL) and ventral regions (MTG) of the temporal lobe, which are often thought to be involved in lexical level processing (Davis & Johnsrude, 2003; DeWitt & Rauschecker, 2012; Hickok & Poeppel, 2007; Scott, Blank, Rosen, & Wise, 2000).”
Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the cognitive control of memory. (2007, background): “…access to semantic nowledge (Gabrieli et al., 1998; Poldrack et al., 1999), includng comparisons of semantic decisions versus word reading Davis & Johnsrude, 2003; Davis, Meunier, & Marslen-Wilson, 004; Petersen et al., 1988; Tyler, Bright, Fletcher, & Stamatakis, 004), semantic versus…”
A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400 (2008, background): “, and studies using distorted speech stimuli find that activity in the MTG and/or the IT increases as a function of intelligibilit”
Brain regions recruited for the effortful comprehension of noise-vocoded words (2012, background): “Davis and Johnsrude (2003) compared neural responses to sentences degraded in a variety of ways with responses to clear speech and signal correlated noise.”
Speech recognition in adverse conditions: A review (2012, background): “Given evidence that both anterior and posterior temporal regions are additionally engaged during degraded speech comprehension (Davis & Johnsrude, 2003; Davis et al., 2011; Obleser et al., 2007), it is plausible that both of these forms of memory are recruited during ACs.”
Human auditory cortex preferentially tracks speech over music without explicit attention (2026, unknown): “…to either stream, suggests that auditory cortex automatically differentiates these acoustic categories, though the relative contributions of bottom-up sensory processing versus implicit attentional biases toward speech content remain to be determined (Davis & Johnsrude, 2003; Obleser et al., 2007).”
Intracranial Mapping of Response Latencies and Task Effects for Spoken Syllable Processing in the Human Brain (2024, unknown): “…to background noise (Kell and McDermott, 2019), and has specializations for voice (Belin et al., 2000) and abstract speech units (e.g., at the phonemic, semantic, and lexical levels) versus simply encoding speech acoustics (Davis and Johnsrude, 2003; Okada et al., 2010; Keshishian et al., 2023).”
NextLevelBERT: Masked Language Modeling with Higher-Level Representations for Long Documents (2024, background): “From a cognitive perspective, language is widely regarded as a hierarchical process (Lashley, 1951; Davis and Johnsrude, 2003; Everaert et al., 2015), enabling connections between distant pieces of information.”