308-Neural Coding of Universal Phonetics and Word Structure
This research investigates the neural mechanisms in the human temporal lobe that differentiate between processing familiar and unfamiliar spoken languages, using high-density brain recordings (ECoG) in monolingual and bilingual speakers. The study determined that the superior temporal gyrus (STG) exhibits similar cortical activation and feature encoding for basic acoustic–phonetic features, such as vowels and consonants, regardless of whether the language is known or foreign. Critically, only when listening to their native language did the participants show enhanced neural encoding for…
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