Reposted by Jose Pérez-Navarro
🔊 New preprint. Speech timing is never regular — syllables stretch, phonemes arrive early or late. That variability is usually averaged away as noise. We asked whether the brain treats it as information instead.
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The cortex encodes speech timing as departure from expectation across multiple timescales
Every syllable and every phoneme in natural speech has a different duration. This variability is conventionally treated as jitter, noise the brain must overcome to recover an underlying regularity. He...
