Music as a scaffold for listening to speech: Better neural phase-locking to song than speech

Neural activity synchronizes with the rhythmic input of many environmental signals, but the capacity of neural activity to entrain to the slow rhythms of speech is particularly important for successful communication. Compared to speech, song has greater rhythmic regularity, a more stable fundamental...

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Main Authors: Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, Marc F. Joanisse, Jessica A. Grahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:NeuroImage
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920302548