tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post3299181087834857313..comments2024-03-09T09:06:35.288+00:00Comments on Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: Thoughts on Ding et al (2015) "Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech"Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16732977871048876430noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-43822416829594652422016-01-20T06:42:07.745+00:002016-01-20T06:42:07.745+00:00Thank you much for the post! You have really saved...Thank you much for the post! You have really saved my lots of time. I’ve just bookmarked this blog site. <a href="www.therapyinsd.com/san-diego-smoking-cessation-hypnotherapy-treatment/" rel="nofollow">Karen Kerschmann</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11718088637061523602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-4442107378038178122016-01-06T10:47:01.695+00:002016-01-06T10:47:01.695+00:00Great post.Thank youGreat post.Thank youcareer coacheshttp://www.bestresumeservice.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-49814094308481383922015-12-11T11:27:18.302+00:002015-12-11T11:27:18.302+00:00Thanks for sharing that paper, Fred. I, too, had c...Thanks for sharing that paper, Fred. I, too, had concerns about Peelle and Davis making strong claims about the role of the speech envelope. Since the speech envelope is an abstraction, I wondered what the actual information was in the signal that supported the entrainment. I also agree completely about your point that the rhythm in language is very different than the periodicity of neural oscillations and that what you refer to as shared knowledge (and what I'd refer to as previous experience shaping the neural response to information) is critical in understanding how our brains respond to language. <br />I have a question about this.<br />My question is whether regular oscillations that correlate somewhat with the frequency of syllable production (which is admittedly variable) might emerge via the interaction of the brain (which has its own dynamic characteristics) with the ongoing speech signal? Or, could the reported oscillations simply be the result of averaging done during data analysis, meaning that, if we were able to get a good recording of a single trial we might observe a signal that more accurately tracks the temporal characteristics of the speech signal? These two possibilities would suggest that we might observe something like regular activity in the range of syllable frequency without there being unambiguous information about syllables in the speech signal.<br /><br />I'll add that I have no skin in this game. I don't think any particular problems arise for us if syllables aren't clearly present in the signal. I took that as a given in the post above because it seemed intuitive and it allowed Ding et al a starting point for their arguments. Sabrina Golonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484205507927422316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-64423775985544961302015-12-09T18:27:37.936+00:002015-12-09T18:27:37.936+00:00Maybe - this isn't my specialty. I'll read...Maybe - this isn't my specialty. I'll read the article you linked to and I might have more to add after that. But for now I'd ask you why you think they found neural tracking at the syllable level for an unfamiliar language?Sabrina Golonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484205507927422316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-109948088008130122015-12-09T15:37:39.155+00:002015-12-09T15:37:39.155+00:00The idea that syllables are simply present in the ...The idea that syllables are simply present in the acoustics (or movements) is simply false. Even an account of syllable perception must lean upon shared linguistic knowledge. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00364/full<br /><br />(Disclaimer, no relation of Cummins 2000). Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12698509790614656032noreply@blogger.com