Speech-evoked brain activity is more robust to competing speech when it is spoken by someone familiar

When speech is masked by competing sound, people are better at understanding what is said if the talker is familiar compared to unfamiliar. The benefit is robust, but how does processing of familiar voices facilitate intelligibility? We combined high-resolution fMRI with representational similarity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emma Holmes, Ingrid S. Johnsrude
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-08-01
Series:NeuroImage
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921003840