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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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“Moreover, neuropsychological studies conducted on tone languages have shown that the left hemisphere is recruited to process contrastive prosodic information at the word level for speakers of these languages (e.g. Gandour et al., 2000, 2002, 2004; Gandour et al., 1998; Klein et al., 2001).”
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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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