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SUBMITTER: Van Ackeren MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790372 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Ackeren Markus Johannes MJ Barbero Francesca M FM Mattioni Stefania S Bottini Roberto R Collignon Olivier O
eLife 20180117
The occipital cortex of early blind individuals (EB) activates during speech processing, challenging the notion of a hard-wired neurobiology of language. But, at what stage of speech processing do occipital regions participate in EB? Here we demonstrate that parieto-occipital regions in EB enhance their synchronization to acoustic fluctuations in human speech in the theta-range (corresponding to syllabic rate), irrespective of speech intelligibility. Crucially, enhanced synchronization to the in ...[more]