Stroke impacts speech sound integration, not speed, study reveals

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To analyze how the brain changes in these cases, a research team led by Laura Gwilliams of Stanford University (USA), and Maaike Vandermosten of KU Leuven (Belgium), compared brain activity of 39 patients who had had a stroke with that of 24 healthy people of similar age. According to their article, published in JNeurosci, researchers recorded brain activity while participants listened to a story. People with problems processing speech after a s…