Vowel sound extraction in anterior superior temporal cortex

Obleser, Jonas; Boecker, Henning; Drzezga, Alexander; Haslinger, Bernhard; Hennenlotter, Andreas; Roettinger, Michael; Eulitz, Carsten; Rauschecker, Josef P.

doi:10.1002/hbm.20201

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Vowel sound extraction in anterior superior temporal cortex

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Obleser, Jonas, Boecker, Henning, Drzezga, Alexander, Haslinger, Bernhard, Hennenlotter, Andreas, Roettinger, Michael, Eulitz, Carsten, Rauschecker, Josef P.·2006·Human Brain Mapping

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We investigated the functional neuroanatomy of vowel processing. We compared attentive auditory perception of natural German vowels to perception of nonspeech band-passed noise stimuli using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). More specifically, the mapping in auditory cortex of first and second formants was considered, which spectrally characterize vowels and are linked closely to phonological features. Multiple exemplars of natural German vowels were presented in sequences alternating either mainly along the first formant (e.g., [u]-[o], [i]-[e]) or along the second formant (e.g., [u]-[i], [o]-[e]). In fixed-effects and random-effects analyses, vowel sequences elicited more activation than did nonspeech noise in the anterior superior temporal cortex (aST) bilaterally. Partial segregation of different vowel categories was observed within the activated regions, suggestive of a speech sound mapping across the cortical surface. Our results add to the growing evidence that speech sounds, as one of the behaviorally most relevant classes of auditory objects, are analyzed and categorized in aST. These findings also support the notion of an auditory "what" stream, with highly object-specialized areas anterior to primary auditory cortex.

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In the anterior processing stream, activation is typically observed when acoustic complexity is not controlled, even when familiarity and conceptual content are matched by comparing speech to familiar environmental sounds.
“A contrasting pattern of response was observed in the anterior processing stream where activation was typically observed when acoustic complexity was not controlled (Obleser et al., 2006; Uppenkamp et al., 2006; Binder et al., 2004), even when familiarity and conceptual content were matched by comparing speech to familiar environmental sounds (Specht and Reul, 2003; Thierry et al., 2003; Thierry”
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Authors: Obleser, J., Boecker, H., Drzezga, A., Haslinger, B., Hennenlotter, A., Roettinger, M., Eulitz, C., & Rauschecker, J. P.
Affiliations: University of Konstanz (DE)
TUM Klinikum (DE)
Technical University of Munich (DE)
Max Planck Society (DE)
Georgetown University (US)
ORCID: Obleser, Jonas
Boecker, Henning
Drzezga, Alexander
Haslinger, Bernhard
Eulitz, Carsten
Rauschecker, Josef P.
Venue: Human Brain Mapping
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2005-11-09
Volume: 27
Issue: 7
Pages: 562-571
ISSN: 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
1097-0193
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20201
PMC: PMC6871493
OpenAlex: W2063535062
Cited by: 168
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 4.47
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations: Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
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Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Keywords: vowel processing, auditory cortex, formants, speech perception, German vowels, phonological features, functional neuroanatomy
MeSH terms: Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Attention, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Pathways, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Language, Language Tests, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Speech Perception, Temporal Lobe

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