Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Speaker-normalized sound representations in the human auditory cortex

  • Matthias J. Sjerps,
  • Neal P. Fox,
  • Keith Johnson,
  • Edward F. Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10365-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Our perception of a speech sound tends to remain stable despite variation in people’s vocal characteristics. Here, by measuring neural activity as people listened to speech from different voices, the authors provide evidence for speaker normalization processes in the human auditory cortex.