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Hemispheric roles in the perception of speech prosody
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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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“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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Metadata
- 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
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 344-357
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2140912154
- Cited by
- 273
- References
- 89
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- FWCI
- 6.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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