The way speech is processed is under influence of acoustic attention; however how attention modulates the processing of specific acoustic information embedded in speech sounds remains largely unknown. During this talk I will present the results of a 7 Tesla fMRI study in which we examined how top-down effects change the neural representations of task-relevant acoustic information during the processing of speech. Additionally, I will show how we currently apply the same approach to examine functional alterations in the processing of speech in dyslexic individuals.
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