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SUBMITTER: Hasson U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2175551 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasson Uri U Hasson Uri U Skipper Jeremy I JI Nusbaum Howard C HC Small Steven L SL
Neuron 20071201 6
Is there a neural representation of speech that transcends its sensory properties? Using fMRI, we investigated whether there are brain areas where neural activity during observation of sublexical audiovisual input corresponds to a listener's speech percept (what is "heard") independent of the sensory properties of the input. A target audiovisual stimulus was preceded by stimuli that (1) shared the target's auditory features (auditory overlap), (2) shared the target's visual features (visual over ...[more]