Fall Semester 2008
Auditory Neuroscience – Neural Basis of Speech Sound
Processing HCS 7372
Meeting time: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm CR1.202
Instructor: Dr. Michael P. Kilgard
Office: JO
4.304
Office hours: Tuesday 10-11am
Office phone: (972) 883-2339
E-mail address: kilgard@utdallas.edu
Course Description
This course will review the basic neural mechanisms of speech sound processing. Introductory lectures will provide students with the appropriate background for each topic, and discussions will explore classic and modern primary papers. Workload will consist of readings, class presentations, class participation, and weekly written critiques.
The focused nature of this course will be a useful supplement to a general education of brain function based on surveys of many fields. Because similar sensory coding principles apply throughout the brain the detailed description of speech processing provided by this course will serve as a conceptual starting point for thinking about other modalities. An additional aim of this course is to relate the discussed concepts to clinically relevant issues. This course assumes only a general understanding of basic neuroscience principles and will be useful to students interested in neuroscience, communication disorders, cognitive science, developmental psychology, biology, computer science, or neural networks.
Concepts:
· Spectral cues
· Temporal cues
· Pitch
· Generalization
· Plasticity
Techniques/Approaches:
·
Psychophysics
·
Neurophysiology
·
Functional
imaging (MEG, fMRI, PET)
·
Neuroethology
·
Rehabilitation
Course Requirements
All assigned readings must be completed before each class.
Critiques -- one-fourth of final grade.
Each week you will need to type a concise, thoughtful critique of one of the papers for discussion. Support your conclusions using concrete evidence and quotations, not merely your opinion. The following outline is suggested: (1) Summarize in 1-2 sentences the key take-home message(s) of the paper. (2) Place the paper in context within the literature we have covered in class. What central problems does it address? How does it differ from other work we studied? How does it advance the field? (3) Critique the methods and conclusions. Are there any flaws in technique or logic? Are the experiments or conclusions believable? (4) Discuss the paper in terms of key concepts we have covered in class. (5) Suggest improvements or additional work. What important related questions does the paper leave open? Critique assignments should be about a page long and should be on the primary research papers not the review articles.
Individual class participation – one-half of final grade (this will be highly quantitative).
In class presentations –
one fourth of final grade.
Objectives
On completion of this course,
students should be able to:
Topics (and papers for discussion):
1. Introduction Sensory Cortex – 8/27
2. Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability.Nature Neuroscience, 2008 – 9/3
Speech +
Cortex
9/10
Speech Sound
Discrimination by Cats - Get
It! UTDallas - all
4 versions »
JH Dewson
- Science, 1964 - sciencemag.org
... show that after bilateral ablation of the in- sular-temporal cortex,
cats are also
un- able to retain or relearn a discrimina- tion between the speech
sounds [u ...
Cited by 34 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
Effects of ablations of
temporal cortex upon speech sound discrimination in the monkey.
- Get
It! UTDallas - all
2 versions »
JH Dewson
3rd, KH Pribram, JC Lynch - Exp Neurol, 1969 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Exp Neurol. 1969 Aug;24(4):579-91. Effects of ablations of temporal cortex
upon
speech sound discrimination in the monkey. Dewson JH 3rd, Pribram KH,
Lynch JC. ...
Cited by 25 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
9/17
Speech evoked activity
in the auditory radiations and cortex of the awake monkey.
M
Steinschneider, J Arezzo, HG Vaughan Jr - Brain Res, 1982 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read Speech evoked activity in the auditory radiations and
cortex
of the awake monkey. Steinschneider M, Arezzo J, Vaughan HG Jr. ...
Cited by 37 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - Check the Library Catalog
Responses of the
human auditory cortex to vowel onset after fricative consonants - all
3 versions »
E
Kaukoranta, R Hari, OV Lounasmaa - Experimental Brain Research, 1987 - Springer
... processing. Key words: Auditory cortex - Speech sounds
- Magnetoencephalography
- Evoked responses - Man Introduction Paradoxically ...
Cited by 62 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - Check the Library Catalog
9/24
Tonotopic features of speech-evoked
activity in primate auditory cortex.
M
Steinschneider, JC Arezzo, HG Vaughan Jr - Brain Res, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read Tonotopic features of speech-evoked activity in
primate
auditory cortex. Steinschneider M, Arezzo JC, Vaughan HG Jr. ...
Cited by 18 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - Check the Library Catalog
Lateralization
of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing - Get
It! UTDallas - all
4 versions »
RJ
Zatorre, AC Evans, E Meyer, A Gjedde - Science, 1992 - sciencemag.org
... J. Neurosci. 22: 10501-10506 | Abstract » | Full Text » | PDF »
Modulation
of the Auditory Cortex during Speech: An MEG Study. ...
Cited by 671 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
10/1
Speech-evoked activity
in primary auditory cortex: effects of voice onset time. - all
2 versions »
M
Steinschneider, CE Schroeder, JC Arezzo, HG … - Electroencephalogr Clin
Neurophysiol, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1994 Jan;92(1):30-43. Speech-evoked activity in primary auditory cortex:
effects
of voice onset time. Steinschneider M, Schroeder CE, Arezzo JC, Vaughan HG Jr. ...
Cited by 68 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - Check the Library Catalog - BL Direct
Discrimination of speech‐like contrasts in the auditory
thalamus and cortex - Get
It! UTDallas - all
5 versions »
N Kraus, T
McGee, T Carrell, C King, T Littman, T … - The Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 1994 - link.aip.org
Discrimination of speech‐like contrasts in the auditory
thalamus and cortex. [The
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96, 2758 (1994)]. ...
Cited by 45 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
10/8
Central
Auditory System Plasticity Associated with Speech Discrimination
Training - Get
It! UTDallas - all
4 versions »
N Kraus, T
McGee, TD Carrell, C King, K Tremblay, … - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
1995 - MIT Press
... gle auditory cortex neurons have been observed to change
their firing patterns during ...
of the central auditory system to just-perceptible differences in speech.
...
Cited by 108 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
Activation
of Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading - Get
It! UTDallas - all
12 versions »
GA
Calvert, ET Bullmore, MJ Brammer, R Campbell, … - Science, 1997 -
sciencemag.org
... suggests that these visual cues may influence the perception of heard
speech before
speech sounds are categorized in auditory association cortex into
distinct ...
Cited by 407 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
10/15
Vowel representations in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the
cat: effects of level, background noise, and behavioral state.
J Neurophysiol. 1998
Apr;79(4):1755-67.
Towards a
functional neuroanatomy of speech perception - Get
It! UTDallas - all
13 versions »
G Hickok,
D Poeppel - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000 - Elsevier
... representations that are used during lexical access), but rather
serves to interface
sound-based representations of speech in auditory cortex with
articulatory ...
Cited by 281 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
10/22
Speech comprehension
is correlated with temporal response patterns recorded from auditory cortex
- all
11 versions »
E Ahissar,
S Nagarajan, M Ahissar, A Protopapas, H … - Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
... Taken together, these findings suggest that the auditory cortex
can process speech
sentences at various rates, but that the extent of the "decodable
ranges" of ...
Cited by 45 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - Check the Library Catalog - BL Direct
Spectral
and Temporal Processing in Human Auditory Cortex - Get
It! UTDallas - all 4 versions
RJ
Zatorre, P Belin - Cerebral Cortex, 2001 - Oxford Univ Press
... Classic observations of aphasic patients have pointed to the
importance of left
posterior temporal cortex in speech comprehension, and more
recent evidence ...
Cited by 236 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
10/29
Modulation
of the Auditory Cortex during Speech: An MEG Study - Get
It! UTDallas - all
11 versions »
JF Houde,
SS Nagarajan, K Sekihara, MM Merzenich - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
2002 - MIT Press
Page 1. Modulation of the Auditory Cortex during Speech: An MEG
Study John F.
Houde* ,1 , Srikantan S. Nagarajan* ,1 , Kensuke Sekihara 2 , ...
Cited by 61 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
Functional
Neuroimaging of Speech Perception in Infants - Get
It! UTDallas - all
16 versions »
G
Dehaene-Lambertz, S Dehaene, L Hertz-Pannier - Science, 2002 - sciencemag.org
... yet known, however, whether this asymmetry reflects an early
specialization for
speech perception or a greater responsivity of the left temporal cortex
to any ...
Cited by 191 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
11/5
From Ear to Cortex
A Perspective on What Clinicians Need to Understand About Speech Perception
and … - Get
It! UTDallas - all
5 versions »
S
Nittrouer - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2002 -
ASHA
Page 1. From Ear to Cortex: A Perspective on What Clinicians Need to
Understand
About Speech Perception and Language Processing Susan ...
Cited by 17 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
Hierarchical
processing in spoken language comprehension - Get
It! UTDallas - all
7 versions »
MH Davis,
IS Johnsrude - Journal of Neuroscience, 2003 - Soc Neuroscience
... Key words: speech; language; auditory cortex;
hierarchical processing; primate;
human; inferior frontal gyrus; temporal lobe; hippocampus; sentence processing ...
Cited by 85 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote - BL Direct
The
neuroanatomical and functional organization of speech perception - Get
It! UTDallas - all
14 versions »
SK Scott,
IS Johnsrude - Trends in Neurosciences, 2003 - Elsevier
... analysis of the peaks of activation seen in functional imaging
studies that have
looked at speech and non-speech auditory processing in the
temporal cortex. ...
Cited by 159 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
11/12
[PDF] The analysis
of speech in different temporal integration windows: Cerebral
lateralization as … - Get
It! UTDallas - all
5 versions »
D Poeppel
- Speech Communication, 2003 - ling.umd.edu
... Keywords: Temporal integration; Timing; Hemispheric asymmetry;
Neural basis of speech;
Auditory cortex; Gamma band; Theta band; Oscillations 1. Introduction ...
Cited by 92 - Related Articles - View as HTML - Web Search - Import into EndNote
Multisensory
Integration of Dynamic Faces and Voices in Rhesus Monkey Auditory Cortex
- Get
It! UTDallas - all
5 versions »
AA
Ghazanfar, JX Maier, KL Hoffman, NK Logothetis - Journal of Neuroscience, 2005
- neuroscience.org
... Bernstein LE, Auer ET, Moore JK, Ponton CW, Don M, Singh M (2002)
Visual speech
perception without primary auditory cortex activation. ...
Cited by 80 - Related Articles - Web Search - Import into EndNote
11/19 – Student Presentations
Liikkanen
LA, Tiitinen H, Alku P, Leino S, Yrttiaho S, May PJ.
The right-hemispheric auditory
cortex in humans is sensitive to degraded speech sounds.
Neuroreport. 2007 Apr
16;18(6):601-5. – presented by _________
Teismann
IK, Sörös P, Manemann E, Ross B, Pantev C, Knecht S.
Responsiveness to repeated speech
stimuli persists in left but not right auditory cortex.
Neuroreport. 2004 Jun
7;15(8):1267-70. – presented by _________
?
– presented by _________
? – presented by _________
? – presented by _________
11/26 – Student Presentations
Phase patterns of neuronal responses
reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex.
Neuron. 2007 Jun 21;54(6):1001-10. –
presented by _________
Schatteman
TA, Hughes LF, Caspary DM.
Aged-related loss of temporal
processing: altered responses to amplitude modulated tones in rat dorsal
cochlear nucleus.
Neuroscience. 2008 Jun
12;154(1):329-37. – presented by
_________
?
– presented by _________
? – presented by _________
? – presented by _________
12/3
Cortical
activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability - Get
It! UTDallas
… , JA Shetake, V Jakkamsetti, KQ Chang,
MP Kilgard - NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, 2008 - nature.com
Unpublished observations from
Engineer, Ranasinghe, and Shetake
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