title: Rhythm of Silence.
abstract: Speech is a complex sound sequence containing statistical regularities on multiple timescales. New research manipulates long-timescale statistical regularities of speech by jittering the duration of silence periods. It provides evidence that low-frequency neural activity (<4 Hz) is tuned to the statistical regularities of natural speech.
authors.affiliation: College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Electronic address: ding_nai@zju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Nai
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Hongjian
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: EEG; Entrainment; Prosody; Rhythm; Speech