NIH R01 · 2025
Characterizing the temporal processing of speech in the human auditory cortex
Project Summary Time is the fundamental dimension of sound, and temporal integration is thus fundamental to speech perception. To recognize a complex structure such as a word in fluent speech, the brain must integrate across many different timescales spanning tens to hundreds of milliseconds. These timescales are considerably longer than the duration of responses at the auditory nerve. Therefore, the auditory cortex must integrate acoustic information over long and varied timescales to encode linguistic units. On the other hand, the nature of the intermediate units of representation between sound and meaning remains debated. Focal brain injuries have shown selective impairment at all levels…
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