AUTHOR=Ghitza Oded , Giraud Anne-Lise , Poeppel David 

TITLE=Neuronal oscillations and speech perception: critical-band temporal envelopes are the essence

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2013

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00340

DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2012.00340

ISSN=1662-5161

ABSTRACT=<p>A recent opinion article (Neural oscillations in speech: do not be enslaved by the envelope. Obleser et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">2012</xref>) questions the validity of a class of speech perception models inspired by the possible role of neuronal oscillations in decoding speech (e.g., Ghitza, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">2011</xref>; Giraud and Poeppel, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">2012</xref>). The authors criticize, in particular, what they see as an over-emphasis of the role of temporal speech envelope information, and an over-emphasis of entrainment to the input rhythm while neglecting the role of top-down processes in modulating the entrainment of neuronal oscillations. Here we respond to these arguments, referring to the phenomenological model of Ghitza (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">2011</xref>), taken as a representative of the criticized approach.</p>