I Heard That Coming: Event-Related Potential Evidence for Stimulus-Driven Prediction in the Auditory System

Bendixen, Alexandra; Schröger, Erich; Winkler, István

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1493-09.2009

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“…Neural adaptation as an account for boys' rule learning in our paradigm is plausible if the auditory system works in a predictive manner, with the final syllable receiving preactivation before its occurrence. Although we cannot prove this within our study, there is independent evidence that prediction occurs in auditory sequence processing (31). With respect to our data, this finding would imply that boys' rule learning is indicated by an enhanced neural response to the nonpredicted syllable at a precognitive level, but girls' rule learning takes place at a more cognitive, memory-based level.…”

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Auditory perception at the root of language learning

Mueller

Friederici

Männel

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

127

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Learning a spoken language presupposes efficient auditory functions. In the present event-related potential study, we tested whether and how basic auditory processes are related to online learning of a linguistic rule in infants and adults. Participants listened to frequent standard stimuli, which were interspersed with infrequent pitch deviants and rule deviants, violating a nonadjacent dependency between two syllables. Only infants who showed the more mature mismatch response for the pitch deviants (i.e., a negativity) showed a mismatch response to the rule deviants. Concordantly, the small group of adults who showed evidence of rule learning showed larger mismatch effects for pitch processing. We conclude that the ability to extract linguistic rules develops in early infancy and is tightly linked to functional aspects of basic auditory mechanisms.language acquisition | AXB rules | pitch perception | mismatch negativity H uman language is based on an acoustically transmitted signal. The successful language learner needs to decode the linguistic content of a complex auditory signal into its component units and their relation to each other, thus deriving words and rules. Although sufficient speech input is widely considered to be crucial for language learning, the perceptual abilities that form the gateway to spoken language have long been neglected in first and second language acquisition research. Basic auditory perception may, however, be an important determinant of language learning processes across the range of normal and abnormal development.There is empirical evidence supporting the idea that early auditory abilities impact on later outcomes of language development in normal infants and populations with language-related disorders (1-3). Furthermore, auditory brainstem responses in language-impaired children suggest that low-level auditory processes contribute to the pathogenesis of language disorders (4). In adults, individual differences in perceptual abilities correlate with language-processing abilities in their native and a second language (5, 6). The findings suggest a potential causal relationship between basic auditory processing ability and the efficiency of language learning in infancy and adulthood.Although infants do not produce complex language in their first year of life, they show remarkable abilities to extract regular patterns from speech input early on. Eight-month-old infants, and even newborns, have been shown to be sensitive to transitional probabilities between syllables defining word-like units (7,8). Syllable repetitions can be detected from birth (9) and dependencies between nonadjacent units of speech can be detected as early as 4 mo of age (10). Learners seem to be able to exploit various distributional and acoustic cues to detect words and rules in speech input. Infants, for example, take advantage of prosodic cues for detecting possible words in the linguistic input (11). Similarly, prosodic cues seem to assist adults' extraction of grammatical patterns from speech input (12, 1...

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 74%

Auditory perception at the root of language learning

Mueller

Friederici

Männel

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Evidence from numerous electrophysiological studies (for review, see Bendixen et al [27]) suggests that these types of predictive relations can be extracted from sound sequences outside the focus of attention and that the extracted information is turned into predictions about forthcoming stimuli. For instance, Bendixen et al [28] compared the processing of sound omissions in three different cases: (i) the auditory features of the omitted sound could be predicted based on the preceding sounds, (ii) sound features could be determined only from the sound following the omitted one, and (iii) sound features could neither be predicted before nor determined after the omission. Participants' attention was engaged by watching a movie, and they received no information about the sound sequences.…”

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Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

Winkler

Denham

Mill

et al. 2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Auditory stream segregation involves linking temporally separate acoustic events into one or more coherent sequences. For any non-trivial sequence of sounds, many alternative descriptions can be formed, only one or very few of which emerge in awareness at any time. Evidence from studies showing bi-/multistability in auditory streaming suggest that some, perhaps many of the alternative descriptions are represented in the brain in parallel and that they continuously vie for conscious perception. Here, based on a predictive coding view, we consider the nature of these sound representations and how they compete with each other. Predictive processing helps to maintain perceptual stability by signalling the continuation of previously established patterns as well as the emergence of new sound sources. It also provides a measure of how well each of the competing representations describes the current acoustic scene. This account of auditory stream segregation has been tested on perceptual data obtained in the auditory streaming paradigm.

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“…After an explosion of work on this topic across the last decade, predictive processes have now been repeatedly demonstrated across domains such as visual and auditory perception (Bar, 2007;Bendixen, Schroger, & Winkler, 2009), motor planning (Wolpert, 1997), and language comprehension (e.g., Delong, Urbach, & Kutas, 2005;Van Berkum, Brown, Zwitserlood, Kooijman, & Hagoort, 2005;Wicha, Moreno, & Kutas, 2004). Just as a tennis player's ability to anticipate a flying ball's trajectory is critical to his/her chances of hitting the ball, the ability to anticipate properties of upcoming input ahead of time is likely key to the efficiency with which the brain processes information.…”

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Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

Chow

Lau

Wang

et al. 2018

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly, but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact verb prediction. We took advantage of the word order properties of Mandarin Chinese to examine the time course with which argument role information impacts verb prediction. We isolated the contribution of argument role information by manipulating the order of pre-verbal noun phrase arguments while holding lexical information constant, and we examined its effects on accessing the verb in long-term semantic memory by measuring the amplitude of the N400 component.Experiment 1 showed when the verb appeared immediately after its arguments, even strongly constraining argument role information failed to modulate the N400 response to the verb. An N400 effect emerged in Experiment 2 when the verb appeared at a greater delay. Experiment 3 corroborated the contrast between the first two experiments through a within-participants manipulation of the time interval between the arguments and the verb, by varying the position of an adverbial phrase. These results suggest time is a key factor governing how diverse contextual information contributes to predictions. Here argument role information is shown to impact verb prediction, but its effect is not immediate.3

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I Heard That Coming: Event-Related Potential Evidence for Stimulus-Driven Prediction in the Auditory System

Cited by 193 publications

References 43 publications

Auditory perception at the root of language learning

Auditory perception at the root of language learning

Multistability in auditory stream segregation: a predictive coding view

Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

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