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Ruixiang Liu1, Huan Zhang1, Chang Liu1

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.

Communications Biology
|May 29, 2026
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Cognitive load from tasks like mental arithmetic impairs neural processing of continuous speech. This affects how the brain represents speech, altering brainwave patterns and connectivity.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Everyday speech perception frequently occurs alongside other cognitive tasks.
  • The impact of speech-extrinsic cognitive load on continuous speech neural processing is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how cognitive load affects neural representations of continuous speech.
  • To examine changes in brain activity and connectivity during speech perception under cognitive load.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings from 29 healthy adults.
  • Analysis using temporal response functions (TRFs), artificial neural network (ANN) decoding, and phase-lag index (PLI).
  • Comparison of speech processing with and without concurrent mental arithmetic (cognitive load).

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Main Results:

  • Higher cognitive load reduced speech-envelope information recovery, indicated by lower delta-band TRF accuracy and ANN decoding performance.
  • Delta-band neural responses showed reduced amplitude but no significant latency shift under cognitive load.
  • Cognitive load altered delta-band phase coupling and network topology, suggesting changes in frontotemporal connectivity.

Conclusions:

  • Speech-extrinsic cognitive load weakens neural representations of continuous speech.
  • Cognitive load alters frontotemporal coupling patterns during speech perception.
  • These effects occur even without speech degradation or competing talkers.