Everyday conversation frequently includes challenges to the clarity of the acoustic speech
signal, including hearing impairment, background noise, and foreign accents. Although an …

A key feature of speech is the quasi-regular rhythmic information contained in its slow
amplitude modulations. In this article we review the information conveyed by speech rhythm …

Speech perception is thought to rely on a cortical feedforward serial transformation of
acoustic into linguistic representations. Using intracranial recordings across the entire …

A core goal of auditory neuroscience is to build quantitative models that predict cortical
responses to natural sounds. Reasoning that a complete model of auditory cortex must solve …

Abstract Syntax, the structure of sentences, enables humans to express an infinite range of
meanings through finite means. The neurobiology of syntax has been intensely studied but …

The human ability to understand speech is underpinned by a hierarchical auditory system
whose successive stages process increasingly complex attributes of the acoustic input. It …

Real-life activities, such as watching a movie or engaging in conversation, unfold over many
minutes. In the course of such activities, the brain has to integrate information over multiple …

Despite decades of research, the functional neuroanatomy of speech processing has been
difficult to characterize. A major impediment to progress may have been the failure to …

A growing body of evidence shows that ongoing oscillations in auditory cortex modulate
their phase to match the rhythm of temporally regular acoustic stimuli, increasing sensitivity …

Models that predict brain responses to stimuli provide one measure of understanding of a
sensory system and have many potential applications in science and engineering. Deep …