Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Perceptual restoration of masked speech in human cortex

  • Matthew K. Leonard,
  • Maxime O. Baud,
  • Matthias J. Sjerps,
  • Edward F. Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13619
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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We can often ‘fill in’ missing or occluded sounds from a speech signal—an effect known as phoneme restoration. Leonard et al. found a real-time restoration of the missing sounds in the superior temporal auditory cortex in humans. Interestingly, neural activity in frontal regions prior to the stimulus can predict the word that the participant would later hear.