Effects of Russian-Language Word Frequency on Mismatch Negativity in Auditory Event-Related Potentials

Aa, Aleksandrov; Memetova, Kristina; Stankevich, L. N.; Uplisova, K. O.

doi:10.1007/s11055-017-0510-3

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“…These data are, first, coherent with previous neurophysiological studies, finding an automatic processing of phonological information such as lexicality [ 37 , 39 ] and lexical frequency [ 66 ] in pre-attentive speech perception. Then, the interaction between these phonological factors is also in line with a few previous studies, revealing an interplay between lexicality and lexical frequency during speech perception [ 38 , 42 ].…”

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Short-Term Habituation of Auditory N1 in Spoken Word-Forms Is Modulated by Phonological Information

Yue

Wang

et al. 2022

Brain Sciences

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Short-term auditory habituation is typically reflected by decreased but recoverable amplitudes of the N1 component of event-related potentials to repeated stimuli. It remains less well understood whether and how N1 habituation is modulated by the human cognition. The current study aims to further test for the potential modulatory roles of phonological information carried by spoken word-forms. Two phonological variables, namely lexicality (real versus pseudoword-form) and usage frequency (high versus low frequency), are considered and combined factorially, yielding four types of monosyllabic Mandarin spoken word-forms. Each type consists of 10 items (i.e., word-forms). The stimuli were passively presented to native Mandarin speakers in trains of five (S1–S5), while their EEG was recorded. The peak amplitudes of N1 to the same type of speech stimuli were calculated for each position by averaging the trains extracted from the EEG recording. Then, the N1 habituation was quantified for the two electrodes of interest (C3 and C4) in each repetitive presentation position (S2–S5). The results showed that the N1 habituation in low-frequency pseudo word-forms was consistently greater than in low-frequency real word-forms and high-frequency pseudo word-forms, respectively, at the fourth presentation (S4). The results suggest the first evidence that different types of phonological information (i.e., lexicality and usage frequency) modulate N1 habituation, interactively. Sensory filtering is proposed as a candidate mechanism for mediating between the processing of phonological information and the short-term habituation of auditory N1.

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confidence: 89%

Short-Term Habituation of Auditory N1 in Spoken Word-Forms Is Modulated by Phonological Information

Yue

Wang

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Brain Sciences

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“…We included several theoretical, lexical, and phonotactic factors that are known to influence results. While other studies found an influence on neural data, for example, of phonotactic probabilities (Bonte et al, 2005 ; Yasin, 2007 ; Emmendorfer et al, 2020 ) or the lexical frequency of words (Alexandrov et al, 2011 ; Shtyrov et al, 2011 ; Aleksandrov et al, 2017 ), we cannot provide evidence for those factors neither on the electrophysiological nor on the behavioral data. On the contrary, we have identified a new influencing factor on MMN data: we found that neural effects were not only driven by phonemic features but also by the perceptual and psychoacoustic differences in perceived loudness in the stimuli.…”

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“…Another known influential factor on speech processing is the lexical frequency of the used real words. This influence can even be present when testing real words in a passive oddball paradigm and can lead to a stronger MMN response for words with higher lexical frequency in opposition to deviants with a lower or intermediate frequency of occurrence (Alexandrov et al, 2011 ; Shtyrov et al, 2011 ; Aleksandrov et al, 2017 ). Furthermore, it has been shown that phonotactic probabilities (sequential order of phonemes in words) influence MMN results with higher probability, accompanied by enhanced MMN effects (Bonte et al, 2005 ; Yasin, 2007 ; Emmendorfer et al, 2020 ).…”

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Asymmetries in Accessing Vowel Representations Are Driven by Phonological and Acoustic Properties: Neural and Behavioral Evidence From Natural German Minimal Pairs

Riedinger

Nagels

Werth³

et al. 2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In vowel discrimination, commonly found discrimination patterns are directional asymmetries where discrimination is faster (or easier) if differing vowels are presented in a certain sequence compared to the reversed sequence. Different models of speech sound processing try to account for these asymmetries based on either phonetic or phonological properties. In this study, we tested and compared two of those often-discussed models, namely the Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL) model (Lahiri and Reetz, 2002) and the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework (Polka and Bohn, 2011). While most studies presented isolated vowels, we investigated a large stimulus set of German vowels in a more naturalistic setting within minimal pairs. We conducted an mismatch negativity (MMN) study in a passive and a reaction time study in an active oddball paradigm. In both data sets, we found directional asymmetries that can be explained by either phonological or phonetic theories. While behaviorally, the vowel discrimination was based on phonological properties, both tested models failed to explain the found neural patterns comprehensively. Therefore, we additionally examined the influence of a variety of articulatory, acoustical, and lexical factors (e.g., formant structure, intensity, duration, and frequency of occurrence) but also the influence of factors beyond the well-known (perceived loudness of vowels, degree of openness) in depth via multiple regression analyses. The analyses revealed that the perceptual factor of perceived loudness has a greater impact than considered in the literature and should be taken stronger into consideration when analyzing preattentive natural vowel processing.

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“…The MMN responses to well-known (high-frequency) words have greater amplitudes and earlier latencies compared to those of less-known (low-frequency) words ( Davis and Gaskell, 2009 ; Tamminen et al, 2015 ; Aleksandrov et al, 2017a ). The MMN response to pseudo words also differs from real words ( Shtyrov et al, 2005 ; Shtyrov and Pulvermüller, 2007 ) as the main differences are between acoustic or structural traits, and the processing is not influenced by the meaning ( Pulvermüller et al, 2001 ; Aleksandrov et al, 2017b ), generating a MMN with longer duration, later latency and lower amplitude.…”

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Perceptual Asymmetries and Auditory Processing of Estonian Quantities

Kask

Põldver

Lippus

et al. 2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Similar to visual perception, auditory perception also has a clearly described “pop-out” effect, where an element with some extra feature is easier to detect among elements without an extra feature. This phenomenon is better known as auditory perceptual asymmetry. We investigated such asymmetry between shorter or longer duration, and level or falling of pitch of linguistic stimuli that carry a meaning in one language (Estonian), but not in another (Russian). For the mismatch negativity (MMN) experiment, we created four different types of stimuli by modifying the duration of the first vowel [ɑ] (170, 290 ms) and pitch contour (level vs. falling pitch) of the stimuli words (‘SATA,’ ‘SAKI’). The stimuli were synthesized from Estonian words (‘SATA,’ ‘SAKI’) and follow the Estonian language three-way quantity system, which incorporates tonal features (falling pitch contour) together with temporal patterns. This made the meaning of the word dependent on the combination of both features and allows us to compare the relative contribution of duration and pitch contour in discrimination of language stimuli in the brain via MMN generation. The participants of the experiment were 12 Russian native speakers with little or no experience in Estonian and living in Estonia short-term, and 12 Estonian native speakers (age 18–27 years). We found that participants’ perception of the linguistic stimuli differed not only according to the physical features but also according to their native language, confirming that the meaning of the word interferes with the early automatic processing of phonological features. The GAMM and ANOVA analysis of the reversed design results showed that the deviant with longer duration among shorter standards elicited a MMN response with greater amplitude than the short deviant among long standards, while changes in pitch contour (falling vs. level pitch) produced neither strong MMN nor asymmetry. Thus, we demonstrate the effect of language background on asymmetric perception of linguistic stimuli that aligns with those of previous studies (Jaramillo et al., 2000), and contributes to the growing body of knowledge supporting auditory perceptual asymmetry.

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Effects of Russian-Language Word Frequency on Mismatch Negativity in Auditory Event-Related Potentials

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Short-Term Habituation of Auditory N1 in Spoken Word-Forms Is Modulated by Phonological Information

Short-Term Habituation of Auditory N1 in Spoken Word-Forms Is Modulated by Phonological Information

Asymmetries in Accessing Vowel Representations Are Driven by Phonological and Acoustic Properties: Neural and Behavioral Evidence From Natural German Minimal Pairs

Perceptual Asymmetries and Auditory Processing of Estonian Quantities

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