New article in Nature showing that the superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes language-specific features stronger when listening to the native language. Bilinguals on the other hand shared this higher-level tuning across both of their familiar languages
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The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-sp...
