
The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
The Quanta Podcast
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How the Brain Processes Complex Auditory Information
Scientists are starting to rethink what the veri parts of the auditory system are doing, and what that means for how we decipher rich soundscapes. Dana bobinger is a cognitive neuro scientist at harvard university who wasn't involved in the study, but is familiar with it. Bobinger isn't ready to abandon more conventional theories about how the brain processes complex auditory information,. But she says it's still exciting. Because maybe we don't actually have a very good idea of what's going on.
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