Perceptual restoration of masked speech in human cortex

We can often ‘fill in’ missing or occluded sounds from a speech signal—an effect known as phoneme restoration. Leonard et al. found a real-time restoration of the missing sounds in the superior temporal auditory cortex in humans. Interestingly, neural activity in frontal regions prior to the stimulu...

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Main Authors: Matthew K. Leonard, Maxime O. Baud, Matthias J. Sjerps, Edward F. Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13619