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Enhancing the EEG Speech Match Mismatch Tasks With Word Boundaries

1 Jul 2023arXiv:2307.00366archive 2025-07-28

Akshara Soman, Vidhi Sinha, Sriram Ganapathy

Recent studies have shown that the underlying neural mechanisms of human speech comprehension can be analyzed using a match-mismatch classification of the speech stimulus and the neural response. However, such studies have been conducted for fixed-duration segments without accounting for the discrete processing of speech in the brain. In this work, we establish that word boundary information plays a significant role in sentence processing by relating EEG to its speech input. We process the speech and the EEG signals using a network of convolution layers. Then, a word boundary-based average pooling is performed on the representations, and the inter-word context is incorporated using a recurrent layer. The experiments show that the modeling accuracy can be significantly improved (match-mismatch classification accuracy) to 93% on a publicly available speech-EEG data set, while previous efforts achieved an accuracy of 65-75% for this task.

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