Perceptually relevant speech tracking in auditory and motor cortex reflects distinct linguistic features.

During online speech processing, our brain tracks the acoustic fluctuations in speech at different timescales. Previous research has focused on generic timescales (for example, delta or theta bands) that are assumed to map onto linguistic features such as prosody or syllables. However, given the hig...

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Main Authors: Anne Keitel, Joachim Gross, Christoph Kayser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2004473