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Perceptual gating of a brainstem reflex facilitates speech understanding in human listeners
Heivet Hernández-Pérez, Jason Mikiel‐Hunter, David McAlpine…·Catherine M. McMahon
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.
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