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SUBMITTER: Segawa J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686190 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Segawa Jennifer J Masapollo Matthew M Tong Mona M Smith Dante J DJ Guenther Frank H FH
Brain and language 20190612
Efficient speech communication requires rapid, fluent production of phoneme sequences. To achieve this, our brains store frequently occurring subsequences as cohesive "chunks" that reduce phonological working memory load and improve motor performance. The current study used a motor-sequence learning paradigm in which the generalization of two performance gains (utterance duration and errors) from practicing novel phoneme sequences was used to infer the nature of these speech chunks. We found tha ...[more]