Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order

Speech unfolds faster than the brain completes processing of speech sounds. Here, the authors show that brain activity moves systematically within neural populations of auditory cortex, allowing accurate representation of a speech sound’s identity and its position in the sound sequence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laura Gwilliams, Jean-Remi King, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34326-1