The Neuroscience of Multiple Sounds at the Same Time

One theory is that the brain has a different set of neurons for each sound, but also different, depending on where the sound is in the word. The way I tested this was by taking my decoding algorithm and training it on just the responses to the first sounds of the word. And you can do any kind of mix of position you want, and you're still able to read out the information. This suggests that there is a set of shared neural populations, which encode phonetic information, regardless of where that sound actually occurs in theword.