Dissociating Prediction and Attention Components in Language by Ruth de Diego-Balaguer (ICREA Research Professor - Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Universitat de Barcelona) Speech is composed of sequences of syllables, words and phrases. These elements unfold in time in specific orders. Thus, acquiring a language requires not only learning each of these representations but also […]

Perceptual adaptation and speech motor control: A new perspective on some well known mechanisms by Douglas Shiller (Université de Montréal, Faculté de médecine) Acoustic speech signals are notoriously variable within and between talkers. To aid in the linguistic decoding of such noisy signals, it is well known that listeners employ a number of perceptual mechanisms […]