BbioRxiv8 Sep 2026
Deep-layer cortical tracking abruptly collapses in the absence of language comprehension
ChenTianyi Yang, Andrew Thwaites, Cai Wingfield, Chao Zhang + 1 more
The brain builds meaning from speech in stages, transforming acoustic input into linguistic comprehension. Yet where comprehension separates from general acoustic processing has been difficult to localize, because the two are tightly entangled in continuous speech. Here we align the activity of 145,000 individual…