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The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension

Friederici, Angela D.·2012·Trends in Cognitive Sciences

DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.001

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Over the years, a large body of work on the brain basis of language comprehension has accumulated, paving the way for the formulation of a comprehensive model. The model proposed here describes the functional neuroanatomy of the different processing steps from auditory perception to comprehension as located in different gray matter brain regions. It also specifies the information flow between these regions, taking into account white matter fiber tract connections. Bottom-up, input-driven processes proceeding from the auditory cortex to the anterior superior temporal cortex and from there to the prefrontal cortex, as well as top-down, controlled and predictive processes from the prefrontal cortex back to the temporal cortex are proposed to constitute the cortical language circuit.

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Authors: Friederici, A. D.
Affiliations: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
Corresponding author: Friederici, Angela D.
ORCID: Friederici, Angela D.
Venue: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2012-05
Volume: 16
Issue: 5
Pages: 262-268
ISSN: 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.001
OpenAlex: W2172056482
Cited by: 748
References: 77
Citations by year: 2026: 39 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 74 · 2020: 75 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 54 · 2015: 54 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 35 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 3.37
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Keywords: sentence comprehension, auditory perception, functional neuroanatomy, auditory cortex, prefrontal cortex, white matter tracts, bottom-up processing, top-down processing, predictive processing
MeSH terms: Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Humans, Language, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Comprehension

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