Sublexical cues affect degraded speech processing: insights from fMRI.

ABSTRACT: In natural listening situations, speech perception is often impaired by degraded speech sounds arriving at the ear. Contextual speech information can improve the perception of degraded speech and modify neuronal responses elicited by degraded speech. However, most studies on context effects on neural responses to degraded speech confounded lexico-semantic and sublexical cues. Here, we used fMRI to investigate how prior sublexical speech (e.g. pseudowords cues) affects neural responses to degraded sublexical speech and hence its processing and recognition. Each trial consisted of three consecutively presented pseudowords, of which the first and third were identical and degraded. The second pseudoword was always presented in clear form and either matched or did not match the degraded pseudow

SUBMITTER: Al-Zubaidi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8914075 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature