Pasley Et Al

Pasley et al.(2012) recruited patients who were soon to undergo surgery on their temporal lobes as a treatment for epilepsy or brain tumors.While outfitted with intracranial electrodes that were actively recording brain activity, the patients heard recordings of words and sentences from a variety of speakers.The researchers found that ______.

A) the brain activity of speakers talking in their native languages differed from the activity of speakers using languages they were not fluent in
B) during an epileptic fit, there was no EEG emanating from auditory regions of the brain
C) a computer could use the activity they detected in the auditory cortex to recreate many of the auditory signals the patients were hearing
D) speech by people whose voices were familiar to the patients was processed differently than that of unfamiliar speakers

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