EEG-based detection of the locus of auditory attention with convolutional neural networks.
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SUBMITTER: Vandecappelle S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8143791 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
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EEG-based detection of the locus of auditory attention with convolutional neural networks.
Vandecappelle Servaas S Deckers Lucas L Das Neetha N Ansari Amir Hossein AH Bertrand Alexander A Francart Tom T
eLife 20210430
In a multi-speaker scenario, the human auditory system is able to attend to one particular speaker of interest and ignore the others. It has been demonstrated that it is possible to use electroencephalography (EEG) signals to infer to which speaker someone is attending by relating the neural activity to the speech signals. However, classifying auditory attention within a short time interval remains the main challenge. We present a convolutional neural network-based approach to extract the locus ...[more]
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