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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2015 Dec 7;19(1):158–164. doi: 10.1038/nn.4186

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Neural tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures. a, Sequences of Chinese or English monosyllabic words are presented isochronously, forming phrases and sentences. b, Spectrum of stimulus intensity fluctuation reveals syllabic rhythm but no phrasal or sentential modulation. The shaded area covers 2 SEM across stimuli. c, MEG-derived cortical response spectrum for Chinese listeners/materials (bold curve: grand average; thin curves: individual listeners, N = 16; 0.11 Hz frequency resolution).. Neural tracking of syllabic, phrasal, and sentential rhythms is reflected by spectral peaks at corresponding frequencies. Frequency bins with significantly stronger power than neighbors (0.5 Hz range) are marked (* P< 0.001, paired one-sided t-test, FDR corrected). The topographical maps of response power across sensors are shown for the peak frequencies.