Attention modulates 'speech-tracking' at a cocktail party.
Recent findings by Mesgarani and Chang demonstrate that signals in auditory cortex can reconstruct the spectrotemporal patterns of attended speech tokens better than those of ignored ones. These results help extend the study of attention into the domain of natural speech, posing numerous questions and challenges for future research.
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 19062, USA.
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D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*