Koerner Tess K, Zhang Yang, Nelson Peggy B, Wang Boxiang, Zou Hui
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Center for Applied Translational Sensory Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Hear Res. 2017 Jul;350:58-67. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.04.009. Epub 2017 Apr 18.
This study examined how speech babble noise differentially affected the auditory P3 responses and the associated neural oscillatory activities for consonant and vowel discrimination in relation to segmental- and sentence-level speech perception in noise. The data were collected from 16 normal-hearing participants in a double-oddball paradigm that contained a consonant (/ba/ to /da/) and vowel (/ba/ to /bu/) change in quiet and noise (speech-babble background at a -3 dB signal-to-noise ratio) conditions. Time-frequency analysis was applied to obtain inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC) and event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) measures in delta, theta, and alpha frequency bands for the P3 response. Behavioral measures included percent correct phoneme detection and reaction time as well as percent correct IEEE sentence recognition in quiet and in noise. Linear mixed-effects models were applied to determine possible brain-behavior correlates. A significant noise-induced reduction in P3 amplitude was found, accompanied by significantly longer P3 latency and decreases in ITPC across all frequency bands of interest. There was a differential effect of noise on consonant discrimination and vowel discrimination in both ERP and behavioral measures, such that noise impacted the detection of the consonant change more than the vowel change. The P3 amplitude and some of the ITPC and ERSP measures were significant predictors of speech perception at segmental- and sentence-levels across listening conditions and stimuli. These data demonstrate that the P3 response with its associated cortical oscillations represents a potential neurophysiological marker for speech perception in noise.
本研究考察了言语嘈杂噪声如何差异地影响听觉P3反应以及与辅音和元音辨别相关的神经振荡活动,这与噪声中片段级和句子级言语感知有关。数据是从16名听力正常的参与者在双Oddball范式中收集的,该范式包含在安静和噪声(信噪比为-3 dB的言语嘈杂背景)条件下的辅音(/ba/到/da/)和元音(/ba/到/bu/)变化。应用时频分析来获取P3反应在δ、θ和α频段的试次间相位相干性(ITPC)和事件相关频谱扰动(ERSP)测量值。行为测量包括音素检测正确率、反应时间以及安静和噪声环境下IEEE句子识别正确率。应用线性混合效应模型来确定可能的脑-行为相关性。发现噪声导致P3波幅显著降低,同时P3潜伏期显著延长,并且所有感兴趣频段的ITPC均降低。在ERP和行为测量中,噪声对辅音辨别和元音辨别的影响存在差异,即噪声对辅音变化检测的影响大于对元音变化的影响。在不同的聆听条件和刺激下,P3波幅以及一些ITPC和ERSP测量值是片段级和句子级言语感知的显著预测指标。这些数据表明,P3反应及其相关的皮层振荡代表了噪声中言语感知的潜在神经生理标记。