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To investigate the relationship between pre-target alpha power and memory encoding of focused words during speech comprehension.

Testing the role of temporal attention in speech: Pre-target alpha predicts memory encoding rather than effects of linguistic focus.

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Examines how pre-target alpha power influences memory encoding in speech, indicating a new understanding of attention dynamics.

To investigate the relationship between pre-target alpha power and memory encoding of focused words during speech comprehension.
Measured EEG alpha power in participants while using an auditory question-answer paradigm.
Evaluated how pre-target alpha tracks temporal prioritization of focused words in discourse.
Analyzed trial-by-trial fluctuations to link alpha power to memory encoding and depth of processing.
Pre-target alpha power was comparably measured before both focused and defocused words, contradicting pre-allocation theories.
Fluctuations in pre-target alpha significantly influenced the Subsequent Memory Effect (SME) for focused words.
Findings suggest that alpha activity indicates an 'encoding-ready' state rather than distributing attention based on linguistic focus cues.

Beier et al. (2026) studied this question.

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