Changes in Neuronal Representations of Consonants in the Ascending Auditory System and Their Role in Speech Recognition.

ABSTRACT: A fundamental task of the ascending auditory system is to produce representations that facilitate the recognition of complex sounds. This is particularly challenging in the context of acoustic variability, such as that between different talkers producing the same phoneme. These representations are transformed as information is propagated throughout the ascending auditory system from the inner ear to the auditory cortex (AI). Investigating these transformations and their role in speech recognition is key to understanding hearing impairment and the development of future clinical interventions. Here, we obtained neural responses to an extensive set of natural vowel-consonant-vowel phoneme sequences, each produced by multiple talkers, in three stages of the auditory processing pathway. Auditor

SUBMITTER: Steadman MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194309 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature