Auditory Neuroscience: Sounding Out the Brain Basis of Speech Perception.

Affiliation

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK. Electronic address: [Email]

Abstract

What is the nature of the neural code by which the human brain represents spoken language? New research suggests that previous findings of a language-specific code in cortical responses to speech can be explained solely by simple acoustic features.