Catherine M. McMahon

The paper shows that prior speech exposure enhances cortical coherence to abstract linguistic units but not to word-level units, indicating intelligibility shapes neural processing of speech.

This study shows that brain activity tracking linguistic structures in speech changes with speech intelligibility, with higher-level structures being left-lateralized.

The paper shows that the MOC reflex enhances speech understanding by gating auditory signals in degraded or noisy environments, with different brain regions engaged depending on the type of speech challenge.