Rapid neural analysis of linguistic stress and meter in continuous speech
Camila Zugarramurdi, Eleonora J. Beier, Katsuaki Kojima, Stephanie Powell, Jonathan Liu, Kristin Davis, Kylie Korsnack, Brett R. Myers, Miriam Diane Lense, Srishti Nayak, Reyna L. Gordon, Cyrille Magne, Yulia Oganian
This study investigates how the brain processes linguistic stress and metrical regularity in speech using EEG, showing differential neural responses to stressed and unstressed syllables and their interaction with meter.
bioRxiv · May 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience