Topic: lexical speech recovery

Our ability to perceive speech remains resilient to variations in voice, rate, and temporal interruptions. While inference models addressed the first two [1], the computational principles by which speech understanding remains impervious to temporal restructuring are largely unexplored. Previous studies indicated intriguing recoveries in comprehension when speech is temporally modulated [2-4]. We show that predictive coding, constrained by endogenous rhythms, accounts for these quizzical results and enables robust lexical speech recovery. We build upon the major hypotheses that the rhythmic st