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. 2019 Mar 22;9(3):70. doi: 10.3390/brainsci9030070

Table 1.

List of papers investigating speech envelope tracking using various analysis approaches, data collection procedures, and topics of interest. Analysis abbreviations: CC—cross-correlation; PC—phase coherence; TRF—temporal response function; SR—stimulus reconstruction.

Author/Year Data Analysis Relevant Amplitude Envelope Findings
Speech Intelligibility
Ahissar et al., 2001 [63] MEG CC Phase-locking predicts speech comprehension
Luo and Poeppel, 2007 [112] MEG PC Phase-locking to speech is robust at 4–8 Hz
Abrams et al., 2008 [69] EEG CC Right-hemisphere dominance for phase-locking
Hertrich et al., 2012 [64] MEG CC Phase-locking with right-lateralized peak at 100 ms
Ding and Simon, 2013 [49] MEG TRF Phase-locking at <4 Hz remains stable in noise
Peelle et al., 2013 [32] MEG PC Phase-locking is strongest at 4–7 Hz in intelligible speech
Ding et al., 2014 [113] MEG TRF/PC Phase-locking at 1–4 Hz predicts speech comprehension
Millman et al., 2015 [114] MEG CC Phase-locking at 4–7 Hz regardless of intelligibility
Power et al., 2016 [115] EEG SR Reconstruction of vocoded speech is strongest at 0–2 Hz
Cocktail Party
Power et al., 2012 [61] EEG TRF Attention elicits left-lateralized peak at 209 ms
Ding and Simon, 2012 [54] MEG SR Attended speech phase-locks at <10 Hz around 100 ms lag
Zion Golumbic et al., 2013 [87] ECoG PC Attended speech phase-locks at 1–7 Hz and 70–150 Hz
Horton et al., 2014 [50] EEG CC Attended phase-locking improves with sample length
O’Sullivan et al., 2015 [83] EEG SR Attended speech encodes maximally at 170–250 ms lag
O’Sullivan et al., 2017 [116] ECoG SR Attention boosts reconstruction accuracy in dynamic switching
Audiovisual Speech
Crosse et al., 2015 [97] EEG SR AV speech encodes better than A + V at 2–6 Hz
Crosse et al., 2016 [98] EEG SR AV speech improves reconstruction in noise at <3 Hz
Park et al., 2016 [101] MEG PC Cortical activity entrains to lip movements at 1–7 Hz
Linguistic Information
Di Liberto et al., 2015 [117] EEG SR Cortical activity entrains to phonetic information
Ding et al., 2017 [118] EEG PC Cortical activity entrains to multiple levels concurrently
Falk et al., 2017 [119] EEG PC Phase-locking improves when rhythmic cue precedes speech
Broderick et al., 2018 [120] EEG TRF Neural tracking depends on semantic congruency
Makov et al., 2017 [121] EEG PC Phase-locking at 4 Hz during sleep, but not at higher levels