Temporal dynamics of MEG phase information during speech perception: Segmentation and neural communication using mutual information and phase locking

dc.contributor.advisorIdsardi, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorCogan, Gregory Brendanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentNeuroscience and Cognitive Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-06T05:37:05Z
dc.date.available2011-07-06T05:37:05Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThe incoming speech stream contains a rich amount of temporal information. In particular, information on slow time scales, the delta and theta band (125 - 1000 ms, 1 - 8 Hz), corresponds to prosodic and syllabic information while information on faster time scales (20-40 ms, 25 - 50 Hz) corresponds to feature/phonemic information. In order for speech perception to occur, this signal must be segregated into meaningful units of analysis and then processed in a distributed network of brain regions. Recent evidence suggests that low frequency phase information in the delta and theta bands of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG) signal plays an important role for tracking and segmenting the incoming signal into units of analysis. This thesis utilized a novel method of analysis, Mutual Information (MI) to characterize the relative information contributions of these low frequency phases. Reliable information pertaining to the stimulus was present in both delta and theta bands (3 - 5 Hz, 5 - 7 Hz) and information within each of these three sub-bands was independent of each other. A second experiment demonstrated that the information present in these bands differed significantly for speech and a non-speech control condition, suggesting that contrary to previous results, a purely acoustic hypothesis of this segmentation is not supported. A third experiment found that both low (delta and theta) and high (gamma) frequency information is utilized to facilitate communication between brain areas thought to underlie speech perception. Distinct auditory/speech networks that operated exclusively using these frequencies were revealed, suggesting a privileged role for these timescales for neural communication between brain regions. Taken together these results suggest that timescales that correspond linguistically to important aspects of the speech stream also facilitate segmentation of the incoming signal and communication between brain areas that perform neural computation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11453
dc.subject.pqcontrolledNeurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMutual Informationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNetwork Dynamicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNeuronal Oscillationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNeuronal Phaseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhase Lockingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSpeech Perceptionen_US
dc.titleTemporal dynamics of MEG phase information during speech perception: Segmentation and neural communication using mutual information and phase lockingen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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