Dissociable patterns of brain activity during comprehension of rapid and syntactically complex speech: Evidence from fMRI
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Sentence comprehension is a complex task that involves both language-specific processing components and general cognitive resources. Comprehension can be made more difficult by increasing the syntactic complexity or the presentation rate of a sentence, but it is unclear whether the same neural mechanism underlies both of these effects. In the current study, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor neural activity while participants heard sentences containing a subject-relative or object-relative center-embedded clause presented at three different speech rates. Syntactically complex object-relative sentences activated left inferior frontal cortex across presentation rates, whereas sentences presented at a rapid rate recruited frontal brain regions such as anterior cingulate and premotor cortex, regardless of syntactic complexity. These results suggest that dissociable components of a large-scale neural network support the processing of syntactic complexity and speech presented at a rapid rate during auditory sentence processing.
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The left IFG is critically involved in perception of external speech.
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- Authors
- Peelle, J. E., McMillan, C., Moore, P., Grossman, M., & Wingfield, A.
- Affiliations
- Brandeis University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wingfield, Arthur
- Venue
- Brain and Language
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 315-325
- ISSN
- 0093-934X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2096990725
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 2.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Brain and Language (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (AG15516, R37-AG-04517, R37AG004517)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (F31DC006376)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- sentence comprehension, syntactic complexity, speech rate, relative clauses, auditory language processing, left inferior frontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, premotor cortex, rapid speech
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Auditory Cortex, Cognition, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Speech, Speech Perception
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