Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody

Gandour, Jackson; Tong, Yunxia; Wong, Donald; Talavage, Thomas; Dzemidzic, Mario; Xu, Yisheng; Li, Xiaojian; Lowe, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.004

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Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody

Gandour, Jackson, Tong, Yunxia, Wong, Donald, Talavage, Thomas, Dzemidzic, Mario, Xu, Yisheng, Li, Xiaojian, Lowe, Mark·2004·NeuroImage

DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.004

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Speech prosody is processed in neither a single region nor a specific hemisphere, but engages multiple areas comprising a large-scale spatially distributed network in both hemispheres. It remains to be elucidated whether hemispheric lateralization is based on higher-level prosodic representations or lower-level encoding of acoustic cues, or both. A cross-language (Chinese; English) fMRI study was conducted to examine brain activity elicited by selective attention to Chinese intonation (I) and tone (T) presented in three-syllable (I3, T3) and one-syllable (I1, T1) utterance pairs in a speeded response, discrimination paradigm. The Chinese group exhibited greater activity than the English in a left inferior parietal region across tasks (I1, I3, T1, T3). Only the Chinese group exhibited a leftward asymmetry in inferior parietal and posterior superior temporal (I1, I3, T1, T3), anterior temporal (I1, I3, T1, T3), and frontopolar (I1, I3) regions. Both language groups shared a rightward asymmetry in the mid portions of the superior temporal sulcus and middle frontal gyrus irrespective of prosodic unit or temporal interval. Hemispheric laterality effects enable us to distinguish brain activity associated with higher-order prosodic representations in the Chinese group from that associated with lower-level acoustic/auditory processes that are shared among listeners regardless of language experience. Lateralization is influenced by language experience that shapes the internal prosodic representation of an external auditory signal. We propose that speech prosody perception is mediated primarily by the RH, but is left-lateralized to task-dependent regions when language processing is required beyond the auditory analysis of the complex sound.

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Right hemisphere responses may help explain why the perception of prosody in heard speech is associated with the right hemisphere, particularly when the language demands of the task are low.
“These right hemisphere responses may help to explain why the perception of prosody in heard speech prosody is associated with the right hemisphere, particularly when the language demands of the task are low (Gandour et al., 2004; Meyer et al., 2004).”
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Bilateral Speech Comprehension Reflects Differential Sensitivity to Spectral and Temporal Features
Obleser, J., Eisner, F., & Kotz, S. (2008) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1290-08.2008 · Cited by 217 · see citing works
“It is particularly in agreement with the concept of spectral fine-tuning of the right auditory cortex and its importance in tracking and processing pitch contours in speech (Kotz et al., 2003; Gandour et al., 2004) or the specific role for pitch in tone languages (for review, see Zatorre and Gandour, 2008).”
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Evidence for the role of the right auditory cortex in fine pitch resolution
Hyde, K. L., Peretz, I., & Zatorre, R. J. (2007) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.004 · Cited by 250 · see citing works
The role of the insula in speech and language processing
Oh, A., Duerden, E. G., & Pang, E. W. (2014) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2014.06.003 · Cited by 238 · see citing works
“Although syntactic and semantic processes are supported primarily by the left-hemisphere, the processing of prosody is primarily a function of the right-hemisphere (Gandour et al., 2004; Pell et al., 2006; Friederici et al., 2002).”
Hemispheric Specialization for Processing Auditory Nonspeech Stimuli
Jamison, H. L., Watkins, K. E., Bishop, D., & Matthews, P. M. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj068 · Cited by 203 · see citing works
“Keywords: asymmetry, fMRI, lateralization, spectral, temporal”
The right hemisphere of sleeping infant perceives sentential prosody
Homae, F., Watanabe, H., Nakano, T., Asakawa, K., & Taga, G. (2006) · Neuroscience Research · doi:10.1016/j.neures.2005.12.006 · Cited by 197 · see citing works
Categorical perception of lexical tones in Chinese revealed by mismatch negativity
Xi, J., Zhang, L., Shu, H., Zhang, Y., & Li, P. (2010) · Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.06.077 · Cited by 183 · see citing works
“…in lexical tone perception; specifically, the right hemisphere is involved in auditory/acoustic processing, whereas the left hemisphere is responsive to linguisic/phonological functions (Gandour et al., 2000, 2002, 2004; Gandour, 2006; Hsieh et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2003; Wong et al., 2004).”
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Cerebral mechanisms for understanding emotional prosody in speech
Pell, M. D. (2005) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.04.007 · Cited by 171 · see citing works
“…emotional prosody, most researchers regard right-hemisphere structures as part of a distributed and bilateral neural system engaged during the processing of emotionally laden speech (Adolphs, Damasio, & Tranel, 2002; Gandour et al., 2004; Kotz et al., 2003; Sidtis & Van Lancker Sidtis, 2003).”
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Neural Attunement Processes in Infants during the Acquisition of a Language-Specific Phonemic Contrast
Minagawa‐Kawai, Y., Mori, K., Naoi, N., & Kojima, S. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1984-06.2007 · Cited by 156 · see citing works
“The left-dominant responses to listening sentences or words are only observed for native listeners in contrast to the bilateral or inconsistent activations for non-native listeners (Bottini et al., 1994; Perani et al., 1996; Dehaene et al., 1997; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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Multiple brain signatures of integration in the comprehension of degraded speech
Obleser, J., & Kotz, S. A. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.020 · Cited by 155 · see citing works
“…facilitate and disambiguate speech comprehension, especially under acoustically compromised conditions, amongst them talker familiarity (e.g., Eisner and McQueen, 2005); prior experience and knowledge (e.g., Hannemann et al., 2007); and prosodic and emotional cues (e.g., Gandour et al., 2004).”
Role of the Corpus Callosum in Speech Comprehension: Interfacing Syntax and Prosody
Friederici, A. D., von Cramon, D. Y., & Kotz, S. A. (2007) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.11.020 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
“The neural implementation of prosodic information, however, is less straightforward (Friederici and Alter, 2004; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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Intonational speech prosody encoding in the human auditory cortex
Tang, C., Hamilton, L. S., & Chang, E. F. (2017) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aam8577 · Cited by 154 · see citing works
Cerebral lateralization and early speech acquisition: A developmental scenario
Minagawa‐Kawai, Y., Cristià, A., & Emmanuel Dupoux, A. (2011) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2011.03.005 · Cited by 146 · see citing works
Newborns are sensitive to multiple cues for word segmentation in continuous speech.
Fló, A., Brusini, P., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., Mehler, J., & Ferry, A. L. (2019) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/desc.12802 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
“A right hemispheric bias for prosody processing has been observed in adults (Friederici & Alter, 2004; Gandour et al., 2004; Meyer, Alter, Friederici, Lohmann, & Von Cramon, 2002; Poeppel, 2003; Zatorre & Belin, 2001), children (Wartenburger et al.”
Prosodic grouping at birth
Abboub, N., Thierry Nazzi, A., & Gervain, J. (2016) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.08.002 · Cited by 145 · see citing works
“Left dominance may be observed if the prosodic cue used is lexically or morphosyntactically relevant such as lexical tone in adults who speak a tonal language (Gandour et al., 2004; Kreitewolf, Friederici, & von Kriegstein, 2014; Sato, Sogabe, & Mazuka, 2007, 2010).”
Effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on dysarthrophonia in Parkinson's disease
Klostermann, F., Ehlen, F., Vesper, J., Nubel, K., Gross, M., Marzinzik, F., Curio, G., & Sappok, T. (2007) · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry · doi:10.1136/jnnp.2007.123323 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Disentangling syntax and intelligibility in auditory language comprehension
Friederici, A. D., Kotz, S. A., Scott, S. K., & Obleser, J. (2009) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20878 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
“…bilaterally [Friederici et al., 2003; Kotz et al., 2002; Rossell et al., 2001], prosodic processes mainly rely on the right superior temporal gyrus (STG) [Gandour et al., 2004; Meyer et al., 2002; Zatorre et al., 1992], and syntactic processes involve different regions in the left temporal cortex.”
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The Neural Correlate of Speech Rhythm as Evidenced by Metrical Speech Processing
Geiser, E., Zaehle, T., Jäncke, L., & Meyer, M. E. (2007) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2008.20029 · Cited by 118 · see citing works
“Activation in the right IFG has been found during pitch processing in both nonlinguistic (Liu et al., 2006; Hsieh et al., 2001; Humphries, Willard, Buchsbaum, & Hickok, 2001) and speech contexts (Wildgruber, Ackermann, Kreifelts, & Ethofer, 2006; Gandour et al., 2004; Meyer et al., 2002).”
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Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high-functioning autism
Diehl, J. J., Bennetto, L., Watson, D., Gunlogson, C. A., & McDonough, J. M. (2008) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.04.002 · Cited by 113 · see citing works
“…(Berckmoes & Vingerhoets, 2004; Eisenmajer et al., 1996), while others have argued that prosody that serves a linguistic function (e.g., lexical stress, phrasing, speech acts) involves the left hemispheric structures (Gandour et al., 2004; Wildgruber, Pihan, Ackerman, Erb, & Grodd, 2002).”
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The nature of hemispheric specialization for linguistic and emotional prosodic perception: A meta-analysis of the lesion literature
Witteman, J., van IJzendoorn, M. H., van de Velde, D., van Heuven, V. J. J. P., & Schiller, N. O. (2011) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.028 · Cited by 112 · see citing works
Cross-language differences in the brain network subserving intelligible speech
Ge, J., Peng, G., Lyu, B., Wang, Y., Zhuo, Y., Niu, Z., Tan, L. H., Leff, A. P., & Gao, J. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1416000112 · Cited by 107 · see citing works
“The right temporal lobe activation has been widely observed during the phonological processing for Chinese subjects (29, 30), whereas the right anterior temporal pole was anatomically related to speakers of Chinese (23).”
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The processing of prosody: Evidence of interhemispheric specialization at the age of four
Wartenburger, I., Steinbrink, J. M., Telkemeyer, S., Friedrich, M., Friederici, A. D., & Obrig, H. (2006) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.09.009 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
The perception of musical phrase structure: A cross-cultural ERP study
Nan, Y., Knösche, T. R., & Friederici, A. D. (2006) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.03.115 · Cited by 97 · see citing works
“Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., Friederici, A.D., 1999.”
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It's Early: Event-related Potential Evidence for Initial Interaction of Syntax and Prosody in Speech Comprehension
Eckstein, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2006) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.10.1696 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
“These considerations are supported by findings from neuropsychology that if segmental information is included in the signal, the left hemisphere is additionally recruited (Friederici & Alter, 2004; Gandour et al., 2004; Poeppel, 2003; Perkins, Baran, & Gandour, 1996).”
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Prosody meets syntax: the role of the corpus callosum
Sammler, D., Kotz, S. A., Eckstein, K., Ott, D. V. M., & Friederici, A. D. (2010) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awq231 · Cited by 92 · see citing works
“This suggests that the actual lateralization of prosodic processing partly depends on task demands (Plante et al., 2002; Gandour et al., 2004; Kotz et al., 2006) and on the presence of concurrent segmental information (Van Lancker and Sidtis, 1992; Baum and Pell, 1999; Friederici and Alter, 2004; Pannekamp et al.”
Activation of the left planum temporale in pitch processing is shaped by language experience
Xu, Y., Gandour, J. T., Talavage, T. M., Wong, D., Džemidžić, M., Tong, Y., Li, X., & Lowe, M. J. (2005) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20176 · Cited by 89 · see citing works
“two hemispheres via the corpus callosum [Gandour et al., 2004].”
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Perception of Words and Pitch Patterns in Song and Speech
Merrill, J., Sammler, D., Bangert, M., Goldhahn, D., Lohmann, G., Turner, R., & Friederici, A. D. (2012) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00076 · Cited by 86 · see citing works
“For example, Gandour et al. (2004) found that pitch in tonal languages was processed in left-lateralized areas when associated with semantic meaning (in native tonal language speakers) and rightlateralized areas when analyzed by lower-level acoustic/auditory processes (in English speakers that were…”
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Multiple subregions in superior temporal cortex are differentially sensitive to vocal expressions: A quantitative meta-analysis
Frühholz, S., & Grandjean, D. (2012) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.11.002 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Brain Activation for Consonants and Vowels
Carreiras, M., & Price, C. J. (2008) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm202 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
Time Course of Top-down and Bottom-up Influences on Syllable Processing in the Auditory Cortex
Bonte, M. L., Parviainen, T. M., Hytönen, K., & Salmelin, R. H. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhi091 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
“Thereby the present observations extend previous fMRI findings which have associated these areas with the prelexical processing of phonetic cues and features of phonological significance in the perceiver’s native language (Jäncke et al., 2002; Jacquemot et al., 2003; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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Cortical Dynamics of Acoustic and Phonological Processing in Speech Perception
Zhang, L., Xi, J., Guo-qing, X., Shu, H., Wang, X., & Li, P. (2011) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020963 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
“Our data show that compared with acoustic variations, phonological variations elicited less activation in the core auditory region, exactly the right lateral HG, which has been suggested to function as a ‘‘pitch center’’ [30,31] that is specifically responsive to pitch sequences in speech or non-speech context [21,24,…”
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The functional characterization of callosal connections
Innocenti, G. M., Schmidt, K. E., Milleret, C., Mara Fabri, C., Knyazeva, M. G., Battaglia‐Mayer, A., Aboitiz, F., Ptito, M., Caleo, M., Marzi, C. A., et al. (2021) · Progress in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102186 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
Early cortical processing of linguistic pitch patterns as revealed by the mismatch negativity
Ren, G., Yang, Y., & Xinlei, L. I. (2009) · Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.04.021 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
Reduced sensitivity to prosodic attitudes in adults with focal right hemisphere brain damage
Pell, M. D. (2006) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2006.10.003 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
“All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2006.10.003 cues in speech is strong (Baum & Pell, 1999; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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The Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon
Anna Papafragou, A., Trueswell, J. C., & Gleitman, L. R. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845003.001.0001 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
Human cortical encoding of pitch in tonal and non-tonal languages
Li, Y., Tang, C., Lu, J., Wu, J., & Chang, E. F. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21430-x · Cited by 76 · see citing works
A Cross-Language Study of Perception of Lexical Stress in English
Yu, V. Y., & Andruski, J. E. (2009) · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · doi:10.1007/s10936-009-9142-2 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: Transient Traces of Consonants and their Nonspeech Analogues in the Human Brain
Obleser, J., Scott, S. K., & Eulitz, C. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj047 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
“…ECD solutions) without losing the subject’s data entirely: other valid observations from the subject will be used in the model nevertheless and will contribute to the enhanced power of a larger subject sample (Wolfinger, 1997; Carrier et al., 2001; Gandour et al., 2004; Frost et al., 2004).]”
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White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success
Qi, Z., Han, M., Garel, K.-L. A., Chen, E. S., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2014) · Journal of Neurolinguistics · doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2014.08.004 · Cited by 72 · see citing works
“…and fMRI evidence has shown that processing lexical tones is left-lateralized in native Mandarin speakers, especially for pitch contour information, while processing acoustic tones remains right-lateralized regardless of listeners' language background (Gandour et al., 2004; Tong et al., 2005).”
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Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experience
Kirmse, U., Ylinen, S., Tervaniemi, M. H., Vainio, M., Schröger, E., & Jacobsen, T. (2007) · International Journal of Psychophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.10.012 · Cited by 72 · see citing works
“Processing of linguistic prosody, as it possibly occurred in the German group, in contrast has usually been attributed to right-hemispheric brain areas (Gandour et al., 2003, 2004; see also Friederici and Alter, 2004).”
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Reading acquisition reorganizes the phonological awareness network only in alphabetic writing systems
Brennan, C., Cao, F., Pedroarena‐Leal, N., McNorgan, C., & Booth, J. R. (2012) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22147 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
“Neuroimaging studies have also shown differences in Chinese compared with English speakers in the oral language network when processing tonal information [Gandour et al., 2003, 2004; Hsieh et al., 2001; Klein et al., 2001].”
Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production
Liu, L., Peng, D., Ding, G., Jin, Z. H., Zhang, L., Li, K., & Chen, C. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.046 · Cited by 68 · see citing works
“According to Gandour et al. (2004), hemispheric lateralization for speech prosody processing is based on both the high-level linguistic representations and the low-level encoding of acoustic cues.”
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Functional contributions of the basal ganglia to emotional prosody: Evidence from ERPs
Paulmann, S., Pell, M. D., & Kotz, S. A. (2008) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.032 · Cited by 68 · see citing works
Neural circuitry underlying sentence-level linguistic prosody
Tong, Y., Gandour, J. T., Talavage, T. M., Wong, D., Džemidžić, M., Xu, Y., Li, X., & Lowe, M. J. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.002 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
“By using pseudowords (Gandour et al., 2002), short unstructured lists (Gandour et al., 2003b; Hsieh et al., 2001), and 3-syllable meaningless utterances (Gandour et al., 2003a, 2004; cf. syntactic speech, Meyer et al., 2002), we eliminated or minimized conceptual – semantic processing.”
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Hearing and seeing meaning in noise: Alpha, beta, and gamma oscillations predict gestural enhancement of degraded speech comprehension
Drijvers, L., Özyürek, A., & Jensen, O. (2018) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.23987 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
“In fMRI studies on auditory degraded speech perception, the rSTS has shown to be sensitive to spectral fine-tuning (Scott, 2000; Zatorre, Belin, & Penhune, 2002) and pitch contours (Gandour et al., 2004; Kotz et al., 2003).”
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The Functional Neuroanatomy of Lexical Tone Perception: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis
Liang, B., & Du, Y. (2018) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00495 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Differential representation of speech sounds in the human cerebral hemispheres
Firszt, J. B., Ulmer, J. L., & Gaggl, W. (2006) · The Anatomical Record Part A Discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1002/ar.a.20295 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
“At the same time, studies of linguistic processing in tonal languages (Gandour et al., 1998, 2004) and left hemisphere processing of visual sign languages by individuals with profound hearing impairment (Petitto et al., 2000; Finney et al., 2001) suggest that the left hemisphere may have a…”
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Temporal relation between top-down and bottom-up processing in lexical tone perception
Shuai, L., & Gong, T. (2014) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00097 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
“…lateralization patterns of lexical tone processing (e.g., Van Lancker and Fromkin, 1973; Baudoin-Chial, 1986; Hsieh et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2001; Gandour et al., 2002, 2004; Tervaniemia and Hugdahl, 2003; Luo et al., 2006; Zatorre and Gandour, 2008; Li et al., 2010; Krishnan et al., 2011; Jia…”
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Prosodic pitch processing is represented in delta‐band EEG and is dissociable from the cortical tracking of other acoustic and phonetic features
Teoh, E. S., Cappelloni, M. S., & Lalor, E. C. (2019) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1111/ejn.14510 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
“But neural correlates of prosodic pitch have only been observed to be right lateralized within the context of certain tasks, and typically when lexical content is no longer identifiable (Baum & Pell, 1999; Gandour et al., 2004; Kotz et al., 2003; Kreitewolf et al., 2014; Meyer, Alter, & Friederici, 2003; Meyer et al.,…”
Towards a fronto-temporal neural network for the decoding of angry vocal expressions
Frühholz, S., & Grandjean, D. (2012) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.015 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
“The right pSTG and f-pSTS (Gandour et al., 2004; Wiethoff et al., 2008), together with the regions in the right PTe (Griffiths et al., 1999), might be involved in this suprasegmental and pitch decoding from auditory cues related to angry prosody.”
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The neural mechanism associated with the processing of onomatopoeic sounds
Hashimoto, T., Usui, N., Taira, M., Nose, I., Haji, T., & Kojima, S. (2006) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.019 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Hemispheric lateralization of linguistic prosody recognition in comparison to speech and speaker recognition
Kreitewolf, J., Friederici, A. D., & von Kriegstein, K. (2014) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.038 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
“This is consistent with previous work suggesting that linguistic prosody processing is supported by the functions of neither one specific area nor a single hemisphere (e.g., Gandour et al., 2004; Tong et al., 2005; Witteman et al., 2011).”
Differential roles of right temporal cortex and broca's area in pitch processing: Evidence from music and mandarin
Nan, Y., & Friederici, A. D. (2012) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.22046 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
“This is in line with previous fMRI results indicating a left-localization of lexical pitch only when language processing beyond the auditory analysis is required [Gandour et al., 2004].”
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The Mismatch Negativity
Näätänen, R., Kujala, T., & Light, G. A. (2019) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198705079.001.0001 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Modality- and Task-specific Brain Regions Involved in Chinese Lexical Processing
Liu, L., Deng, X., Peng, D., Cao, F., Ding, G., Jin, Z. H., Zeng, Y., Li, K., Lei, Z., Fan, N., et al. (2008) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21141 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
“Right STG activation has also been found in Chinese speech processing (Xiao et al, 2005 ; Gandour et al, 2004 ; Wang, Sereno, Jongman, & Hirsch, 2003 ), and researchers have suggested its role in tonal pitch processing of the Chinese language (Zatorre & Gandour, 2008 ; Gandour et al, 2004 ).”
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Cooperative cortical network for categorical processing of Chinese lexical tone
Si, X., Zhou, W., & Hong, B. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1710752114 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
Neural basis of first and second language processing of sentence‐level linguistic prosody
Gandour, J. T., Tong, Y., Talavage, T. M., Wong, D., Džemidžić, M., Xu, Y., Li, X., & Lowe, M. J. (2006) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20255 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
“Accordingly, if the speaker has no knowledge or experience with the language, then one does not expect to see a left laterality effect in this region when performing speech prosody tasks [Gandour et al., 2004; Tong et al., 2005].”
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Speech Prosody in Mental Disorders
Ding, H., & Zhang, Y. (2022) · Annual Review of Linguistics · doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030421-065139 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
Access to lexical meaning in pitch-flattened Chinese sentences: An fMRI study
Guo-qing, X., Zhang, L., Shu, H., Wang, X., & Li, P. (2012) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.006 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Mandarin third tone sandhi requires more effortful phonological encoding in speech production: Evidence from an ERP study
Zhang, C., Xia, Q., & Peng, G. (2014) · Journal of Neurolinguistics · doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2014.07.002 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Electrophysiological correlates of categorical perception of lexical tones by English learners of Mandarin Chinese: an ERP study
Shen, G., & Froud, K. (2018) · Bilingualism Language and Cognition · doi:10.1017/s136672891800038x · Cited by 48 · see citing works
Speech processing and plasticity in the right hemisphere predict variation in adult foreign language learning
Qi, Z., Han, M., Wang, Y., Angeles, C. D. L., Liu, Q., Garel, K.-L. A., Chen, E. S., Whitfield, S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Perrachione, T. K. (2019) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.008 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
“…with naïve listeners of a language tending to show right-hemisphere lateralization when processing novel speech sounds (Hsieh et al., 2001; Gandour et al., 2002, 2004; Wong et al., 2004; Luo et al., 2006; Xu et al., 2006; Zatorre and Gandour, 2008; Myers et al., 2009; Friederici, 2011).”
Differential neural contributions to native- and foreign-language talker identification.
Perrachione, T. K., Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Wong, P. C. M. (2009) · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · doi:10.1037/a0015869 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
“…of lexical tones, native Mandarin speakers exhibit a right-ear advantage for identifying lexical tones (Wang, Behne, Jongman, & Sereno, 2004; Wang, Jongman, & Sereno, 2001), a result consistent with the neuroimaging literature (Gandour et al., 2004; Wong, Parsons, Martinez, & Diehl, 2004).”
Hemispheric asymmetries in phonological processing of tones versus segmental units
Li, X., Gandour, J. T., Talavage, T. M., Wong, D., Hoffa, A. M., Lowe, M. J., & Džemidžić, M. (2010) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/wnr.0b013e32833b0a10 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
The assessment and treatment of prosodic disorders and neurological theories of prosody
Diehl, J. J., & Paul, R. (2009) · International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology · doi:10.1080/17549500902971887 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
“Research has shown that different types of prosody are processed differently in the brain (e.g., Friederici & Alter, 2004; Gandour et al., 2004), so the identification of discernible aspects of prosodic performance may be useful in discovering brain-behaviours connections.”
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Perception of intonation in Mandarin Chinese
Yuan, J. (2011) · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · doi:10.1121/1.3651818 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
Auditory object perception: A neurobiological model and prospective review
Brefczynski‐Lewis, J. A., & Lewis, J. W. (2017) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.034 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
“…left hemisphere (Binder et al., 1997; Belin et al., 2000; Binder et al., 2000; Belin and Zatorre, 2003; Obleser et al., 2006), and pitch, prosody, and emotional qualities in human vocals more heavily involving the right hemisphere (Zatorre et al., 1992; Buchanan et al., 2000; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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Neural correlates of intonation and lexical tone in tonal and non‐tonal language speakers
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“Moreover, task-related neural activity strongly overlaps during intonation and tone processing in fronto-parietal brain areas, albeit intonation processing induces bilateral activity and tone processing is more left-lateralised (Gandour, Dzemidzic, et al., 2003; Gandour, Wong, et al., 2003; Gandour et al., 2004).”
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“Brain imaging experiments reported a right hemispheric activation for the processing of suprasegmental information (Gandour et al., 2004; Meyer, Alter, Friederici, Lohmann, & von Cramon, 2002).”
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“These additional areas of neural activation are consistent with findings in the literature regarding their role in the processing of intonation (Brown et al., 2004; Gandour et al., 2003, 2004; Hesling et al., 2005; Meyer et al., 2002, 2004; Plante et al., 2002).”
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“While the general functional differences between the two hemispheres have been established [Gandour et al., 2000, 2002, 2004; Tong et al., 2005; Wong et al., 2004], the precise mechanism underlying the functional asymmetry at the acoustic level remains a matter of debate.”
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“…lie in music-selective neural circuitry in the right IFG as in non-tonal language speakers, or overlap with the neural circuitries of lexical tone processing (cf. Tong et al. 2005; Luo et al. 2006; Gandour et al. 2002; 2004; Wong et al. 2004; Li et al. 2010; Gu et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2016).”
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Temporal integration of speech prosody is shaped by language experience: An fMRI study
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A cross‐linguistic fMRI study of perception of intonation and emotion in Chinese
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Authors: Gandour, J., Tong, Y., Wong, D., Talavage, T., Dzemidzic, M., Xu, Y., Li, X., & Lowe, M.
Affiliations: Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
Indiana University School of Medicine (US)
South China Normal University (CN)
Cleveland Clinic (US)
Corresponding author: Gandour, Jackson
ORCID: Gandour, Jackson
Talavage, Thomas
Xu, Yisheng
Li, Xiaojian
Lowe, Mark
Venue: NeuroImage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2004-09
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Pages: 344-357
ISSN: 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.004
OpenAlex: W2140912154
Cited by: 273
References: 89
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 12
FWCI: 6.05
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC04584-04, R01DC004584)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Keywords: prosody, hemispheric lateralization, Chinese tones, prosodic representation, acoustic cues, language experience, right hemisphere, superior temporal sulcus, auditory cortex, cross-linguistic comparison
MeSH terms: Adult, Arousal, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Language, Male, Middle Aged, Nerve Net, Parietal Lobe, Reaction Time, Sound Spectrography, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception, Temporal Lobe

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