Anne-Lise Giraud
Research project
Contour, rhythm or content? What does dogs brain grasp from human speech?
Project summary
Neural oscillations are involved in speech perception in humans, in particular in the syllabification of continuous speech and in the encoding of the syllabic content. Whether neural oscillations evolved to match the acoustic properties of speech or whether speech evolved to match the neural properties of the auditory cortex is an open question. In this project we plan to use the pet dog as a model of human speech perception (comprehension) without the possibility to produce speech and adapt to it by modifying its rhythmicity. Our project is to gain insight into this language evolution issue by exploring syllable tracking of speech by neural oscillations using EEG in pet dogs.
