Evidence for rapid auditory perception as the foundation of speech processing: a sparse temporal sampling fMRI study

Abstract

We examined the processing of verbal and nonverbal auditory stimuli using an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to reveal the neural underpinnings of rapid temporal information processing and it's relevance during speech perception. In the context of a clustered sparse-temporal fMRI data collection eight right-handed native German speakers performed: (i) an auditory gap detection task; and (ii) a CV syllable discrimination task. A tone perception task served as a nontemporal control condition. Here we aim Show more