Universal and language-specific sublexical cues in speech perception: a novel electroencephalography-lesion approach

摘要

The phonological structure of speech supports the automatic mapping of sound to meaning. Using a novel combined EEG-lesion approach in patients with chronic left hemisphere lesions and healthy controls, Obrig et al. disentangle contributions of universal and language-specific constraints. They show that different processing steps recruit separable brain regions.See Cappa (doi: 10.1093/brain/aww090) for a scientific commentary on this article. aEuro,