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New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com 🧵
Tezcan, Ten Oever, Bai, te Rietmolen & Martin (2026) @sannetenoever.bsky.social , @noemieter.bsky.social , @andreaeyleen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
How does the brain transform speech into meaning?
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Linguistic structure and language familiarity sharpen phoneme encoding in the brain - Communications Biology
Phoneme encoding was stronger for sentences than word lists, and within words than random syllables. Similar encoding appeared for an uncomprehended language only after prior exposure. Acoustic edges ...