Auditory neural tracking and lexical processing of speech in noise : Masker type, spatial location, and language experience

The present study investigated how single-talker and babble maskers affect auditory and lexical processing during native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech recognition. Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings were made while L1 and L2 (Korean) English speakers listened to sentences in the presence of single-talker and babble maskers that were colocated or spatially separated from the target. The predictability of the sentences was manipulated to measure lexical-semantic processing (N400), and selective auditory processing of the target was assessed using neural tracking measures. The results demonstrate that intelligible single-talker maskers cause listeners to attend more to the semantic content of the targets (i.e., greater context-related N400 changes) than when targets are in babble, and that listeners track the acoustics of the target less accurately with single-talker maskers. L1 and L2 listeners both modulated their processing in this way, although L2 listeners had more difficulty with the materials overall (i.e., lower behavioral accuracy, less context-related N400 variation, more listening effort). The results demonstrate that auditory and lexical processing can be simultaneously assessed within a naturalistic speech listening task, and listeners can adjust lexical processing to more strongly track the meaning of a sentence in order to help ignore competing lexical content.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:148

Enthalten in:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - 148(2020), 1 vom: 28. Juli, Seite 253

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Song, Jieun [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Luke [VerfasserIn]
Iverson, Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.06.2021

Date Revised 21.06.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1121/10.0001477

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313280231