Human speech is a particularly relevant acoustic stimulus for our species, due to its role of information transmission during communication. Speech is inherently a dynamic signal, and a recent line of research focused on neural activity following the temporal structure of speech. We review findings that characterise neural dynamics in the processing of continuous acoustics and that allow us to compare these dynamics with temporal aspects in human speech. We highlight properties and constraints that both neural and speech dynamics have, suggesting that auditory neural systems are optimised to process human speech. We then discuss the speech-specificity of neural dynamics and their potential mechanistic origins and summarise open questions in the field.

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连续声学的神经跟踪：属性、语音特异性和开放性问题

人类语音对于我们人类来说是一种特别相关的声学刺激，因为它在交流过程中起着信息传输的作用。语音本质上是一种动态信号，最近的一系列研究集中在遵循语音时间结构的神经活动。我们回顾了表征连续声学处理中的神经动力学的研究结果，并使我们能够将这些动力学与人类语音的时间方面进行比较。我们强调了神经和语音动力学所具有的属性和约束，表明听觉神经系统经过优化以处理人类语音。然后，我们讨论神经动力学的语音特异性及其潜在的机制起源，并总结该领域的悬而未决的问题。