Topic: structure-yoked computation

The sound structures that convey meaning in speech such as phonemes and words vary widely in their duration. As a consequence, integrating across absolute time (e.g., 100 ms) and sound structure (e.g., phonemes) reflect fundamentally distinct neural computations. Auditory and cognitive models have often cast neural integration in terms of time and structure, respectively, but whether neural computations in the auditory cortex reflect time or structure remains unknown. To answer this question, we rescaled the duration of all speech structures using time stretching/compression and measured integ