title: How phonetically selective is the human auditory cortex?
abstract: Responses in the human auditory cortex to natural speech reveal a dual character. Often they are categorically selective to phonetic elements, serving as a gateway to abstract linguistic representations. But at other times they reflect a distributed generalized spectrotemporal analysis of the acoustic features, as seen in early mammalian auditory cortices.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Systems Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris 75005, France. Electronic address: sas@isr.umd.edu.
authors.forename: Shihab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shamma
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*