The DOI matches its Crossref record; 77 of the 77 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension
Abstract
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.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“These brain regions overlap with areas typically considered important in processes such as language, social communication, self-referential and social cognition, pain and emotion.35, 36, 37, 38, 39”
From Intranasal oxytocin enhances intrinsic corticostriatal functional connectivity in women (2017) · cites this paper as [36]
Citations
Cites
The cortical organization of speech processing
Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2007) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn2113 · Cited by 5,495
Binder, J. R., Desai, R. H., Graves, W. W., & Conant, L. L. (2009) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp055 · Cited by 4,060
Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain
Patterson, K., Nestor, P. J., & Rogers, T. T. (2007) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn2277 · Cited by 2,706
Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing
Friederici, A. D. (2002) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01839-8 · Cited by 2,231
Self-citationHickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2004) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2003.10.011 · Cited by 2,212
The brain basis of language processing: from structure to function.
Friederici, A. D. (2011) · Physiological Reviews · doi:10.1152/physrev.00006.2011 · Cited by 2,140
Self-citationMeta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: phonology, semantics, and sentence processing.
Vigneau, M., Beaucousin, V., Hervé, P. Y., Duffau, H., Crivello, F., Houdé, O., Mazoyer, B., & Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2006) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.002 · Cited by 1,851
Perisylvian language networks of the human brain
Catani, M., Jones, D. K., & ffytche, D. H. (2005) · Annals of Neurology · doi:10.1002/ana.20319 · Cited by 1,832
A cortical network for semantics: (de)constructing the N400
Lau, E. F., Phillips, C., & Poeppel, D. (2008) · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn2532 · Cited by 1,779
Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing
Rauschecker, J. P., & Scott, S. K. (2009) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.2331 · Cited by 1,766
Ventral and dorsal pathways for language
Saur, D., Kreher, B. W., Schnell, S., Kümmerer, D., Kellmeyer, P., Vry, M., Umarova, R. M., Musso, M., Glauche, V., Abel, S., et al. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0805234105 · Cited by 1,617
Training induces changes in white-matter architecture
Scholz, J., Klein, M. C., Behrens, T. E. J., & Johansen-Berg, H. (2009) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.2412 · Cited by 1,508
Mechanisms and streams for processing of “what” and “where” in auditory cortex
Rauschecker, J. P., & Tian, B. (2000) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.97.22.11800 · Cited by 1,429
On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework
Hagoort, P. (2005) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.07.004 · Cited by 1,411
The anatomy of language: a review of 100 fMRI studies published in 2009
Price, C. J. (2010) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05444.x · Cited by 1,387
Human temporal lobe activation by speech and nonspeech sounds
Binder, J. R. (2000) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/10.5.512 · Cited by 1,345
The neurology of syntax: Language use without Broca's area
Grodzinsky, Y. (2000) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00002399 · Cited by 1,192
Makris, N., Kennedy, D. N., McInerney, S., Sorensen, A. G., Wang, R., Caviness, V. S., & Pandya, D. N. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh186 · Cited by 1,146
Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension
Caplan, D. N., & Waters, G. S. (1999) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x99001788 · Cited by 1,097
Broca, P. P. (1861) · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · Cited by 942
Friederici, A. D. (2002) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/13.2.170 · Cited by 896
Self-citationThe Processing Nature of the N400: Evidence from Masked Priming
Brown, C. M., & Peter Hagoort, A. (1993) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.1993.5.1.34 · Cited by 783
Friederici, A. D., Bahlmann, J., Heim, S., Schubotz, R. I., & Anwander, A. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0509389103 · Cited by 734
Self-citationThe Neural Mechanisms of Speech Comprehension: fMRI studies of Semantic Ambiguity
Rodd, J. M., Davis, M. H., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhi009 · Cited by 646
Control of local protein synthesis and initial events in myelination by action potentials
Wake, H., Lee, P. R., & Fields, R. D. (2011) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1206998 · Cited by 636
Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2006) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.113.4.787 · Cited by 623
Der aphasische Symptomenkomplex
Wernicke, C. (1974) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-65950-8_1 · Cited by 593
Pathways to language: fiber tracts in the human brain
Friederici, A. D. (2009) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2009.01.001 · Cited by 579
Self-citationNeural language networks at birth
Perani, D., Saccuman, M. C., Scifo, P., Anwander, A., Spada, D., Baldoli, C., Poloniato, A., Lohmann, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1102991108 · Cited by 550
Self-citationConnectivity-Based Parcellation of Broca's Area
Anwander, A., Tittgemeyer, M., von Cramon, D., Friederici, A., & Knosche, T. (2006) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhk034 · Cited by 531
Self-citationPhoneme and word recognition in the auditory ventral stream
DeWitt, I., & Rauschecker, J. P. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1113427109 · Cited by 478
Uddin, L. Q., Supekar, K., Amin, H., Rykhlevskaia, E. I., Nguyen, D. A., Greicius, M. D., & Menon, V. (2010) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq011 · Cited by 473
What is right-hemisphere contribution to phonological, lexico-semantic, and sentence processing?
Vigneau, M., Beaucousin, V., Hervé, P.-Y., Jobard, G., Petit, L., Crivello, F., Mellet, E., Zago, L., Mazoyer, B., & Tzourio-Mazoyer, N. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.036 · Cited by 464
Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension
Humphries, C., Binder, J. R., Medler, D. A., & Liebenthal, E. (2006) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.4.665 · Cited by 463
The Response of Left Temporal Cortex to Sentences
Vandenberghe, R. R., Nobre, A. C., & Price, C. J. (2002) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/08989290260045800 · Cited by 445
The N400 as a function of the level of processing
Chwilla, D. J., Brown, C. M., & Hagoort, P. (1995) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1995.tb02956.x · Cited by 431
Who did what to whom? The neural basis of argument hierarchies during language comprehension
Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, I., Zysset, S., Friederici, A. D., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schlesewsky, M. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.01.032 · Cited by 426
Self-citationLeaver, A. M., & Rauschecker, J. P. (2010) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0296-10.2010 · Cited by 385
Processing Linguistic Complexity and Grammaticality in the Left Frontal Cortex
Friederici, A. D., Fiebach, C. J., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, I., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2005) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj106 · Cited by 366
Self-citationSegregating the core computational faculty of human language from working memory
Makuuchi, M., Bahlmann, J., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0810928106 · Cited by 364
Self-citationBroca's Region: Novel Organizational Principles and Multiple Receptor Mapping
Amunts, K., Lenzen, M., Friederici, A. D., Schleicher, A., Morosan, P., Palomero-Gallagher, N., & Zilles, K. (2010) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000489 · Cited by 357
Self-citationObleser, J., Wise, R. J. S., Alex Dresner, M., & Scott, S. K. (2007) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4663-06.2007 · Cited by 354
Fiebach, C. J., Schlesewsky, M., Lohmann, G., von Cramon, D. Y., & Friederici, A. D. (2004) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.20070 · Cited by 329
Self-citationKuperberg, G. R., McGuire, P. K., Bullmore, E. T., Brammer, M. J., Rabe-Hesketh, S., Wright, I. C., Lythgoe, D. J., Williams, S. C. R., & David, A. S. (2000) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892900562138 · Cited by 305
Verb Argument Structure Processing: The Role of Verb-Specific and Argument-Specific Information
Friederici, A. D., & Frisch, S. (2000) · Journal of Memory and Language · doi:10.1006/jmla.2000.2709 · Cited by 295
Self-citationExpectancy Constraints in Degraded Speech Modulate the Language Comprehension Network
Obleser, J., & Kotz, S. A. (2009) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp128 · Cited by 283
Neuroanatomical Prerequisites for Language Functions in the Maturing Brain
Bräuer, J., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2010) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq108 · Cited by 283
Self-citationSyntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening
Brennan, J., Nir, Y., Hasson, U., Malach, R., Heeger, D. J., & Pylkkänen, L. (2012) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.04.002 · Cited by 279
van den Brink, D., Brown, C. M., & Peter Hagoort, A. (2001) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892901753165872 · Cited by 271
Distinct unimodal and multimodal regions for word processing in the left temporal cortex
Cohen, L., Jobert, A., Bihan, D. L., & Dehaene, S. (2004) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.07.052 · Cited by 266
TYLER, L. K., Marslen‐Wilson, W. D., Randall, B., Wright, P. K., Devereux, B. J., Zhuang, J., Papoutsi, M., & Stamatakis, E. A. (2011) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awq369 · Cited by 263
Snijders, T. M., Vosse, T., Kempen, G., Berkum, J. J. A. V., Petersson, K. M., & Peter Hagoort, A. (2008) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn187 · Cited by 248
Time course of semantic processes during sentence comprehension: An fMRI study
Humphries, C., Binder, J. R., Medler, D. A., & Liebenthal, E. (2007) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.059 · Cited by 241
Myelination of language-related areas in the developing brain
Pujol, J., Soriano‐Mas, C., Ortiz, H., Sebastián‐Gallés, N., Losilla, J.-M., & Deus, J. (2006) · Neurology · doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000201049.66073.8d · Cited by 228
Neural Correlates of Syntactic Processing in the Nonfluent Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia
Wilson, S. M., Dronkers, N. F., Ogar, J. M., Jang, J. Y., Growdon, M. E., Agosta, F., Henry, M. L., Miller, B. L., & Gorno‐Tempini, M. L. (2010) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2547-10.2010 · Cited by 203
Ultra-rapid access to words in the brain
MacGregor, L. J., Friedemann Pulvermüller, A., van Casteren, M., & Юрьевич, Ш. Ю. (2012) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms1715 · Cited by 196
Friederici, A. D., Wang, Y., Herrmann, C. S., Maeß, B., & Oertel, U. (2000) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/1097-0193(200009)11:1 · Cited by 192
Self-citationFronto-temporal brain systems supporting spoken language comprehension
Tyler, L. K., & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2008) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2158 · Cited by 178
Multiple Stages of Auditory Speech Perception Reflected in Event-Related fMRI
Obleser, J., Zimmermann, J. B., van Meter, J., & Rauschecker, J. P. (2006) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhl133 · Cited by 174
How the ventral pathway got lost – And what its recovery might mean
Weiller, C., Bormann, T., Saur, D., Musso, M., & Rijntjes, M. (2011) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.005 · Cited by 172
Broca's area, sentence comprehension, and working memory: an fMRI study
Rogalsky, C. (2008) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/neuro.09.014.2008 · Cited by 172
Davis, M. H., Ford, M. A., Kherif, F., & Johnsrude, I. S. (2011) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00084 · Cited by 155
fMRI adaptation dissociates syntactic complexity dimensions
Santi, A., & Grodzinsky, Y. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.034 · Cited by 132
The role of the posterior superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension
Friederici, A. D., Makuuchi, M., & Bahlmann, J. (2009) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/wnr.0b013e3283297dee · Cited by 128
Self-citationGriffiths, J. D., Marslen‐Wilson, W. D., Stamatakis, E. A., & TYLER, L. K. (2012) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr386 · Cited by 125
Critical comments on dynamic causal modelling
Lohmann, G., Erfurth, K., Müller, K., & Turner, R. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.025 · Cited by 125
Grammar Processing Outside the Focus of Attention: an MEG Study
Юрьевич, Ш. Ю., Friedemann Pulvermüller, A., Näätänen, R., & Ilmoniemi, R. J. (2003) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892903322598148 · Cited by 118
Task-dependent and task-independent neurovascular responses to syntactic processing
Caplan, D. N., Chen, E., & Waters, G. S. (2007) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2006.06.005 · Cited by 108
Network modulation during complex syntactic processing
den Ouden, D., Saur, D., Mader, W., Schelter, B. O., Lukic, S., Wali, E., Timmer, J., & Thompson, C. K. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.057 · Cited by 105
The effect of semantic relatedness on syntactic analysis: an fMRI study.
Newman, S. D., Ikuta, T., & Burns Jr., T. (2010) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.02.001 · Cited by 101
Effective and Structural Connectivity in the Human Auditory Cortex
Upadhyay, J., Silver, A. M., Knaus, T. A., Lindgren, K. A., Ducros, M. G., Kim, D., & Tager-Flusberg, H. B. (2008) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4434-07.2008 · Cited by 94
Meyer, L., Obleser, J., Anwander, A., & Friederici, A. D. (2012) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.052 · Cited by 86
Self-citationLanguage Development and the Ontogeny of the Dorsal Pathway
Friederici, A. D. (2012) · Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnevo.2012.00003 · Cited by 75
Self-citationPlease don’t underestimate the ventral pathway in language
Weiller, C., Musso, M., Rijntjes, M., & Saur, D. (2009) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2009.06.007 · Cited by 63
Syntactic and auditory spatial processing in the human temporal cortex: An MEG study
Herrmann, B., Maeß, B., Anja Hahne, A., Schröger, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.034 · Cited by 41
Self-citationSemantic retrieval of spoken words with an obliterated initial phoneme in a sentence context
Sivonen, P., Maeß, B., & Friederici, A. D. (2006) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2006.09.001 · Cited by 21
Self-citationBroca's region revisited: Cytoarchitecture and intersubject variability
Amunts, K., Schleicher, A., B�rgel, U., Mohlberg, H., Uylings, H. B. M., & Zilles, K. (1999) · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19990920)412:2
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 3
- Brodmann, 1909, Beiträge zur histologischen Lokalisation der Grosshirnrinde: VI. Die Cortexgliederung des Menschen, J. Psychol. Neurol., 10, 231
- Tyler, 2011, Left inferior frontal cortex and syntax: function, structure and behaviour in left-hemisphere damaged patients, Brain, 134, 415, 10.1093/brain/awq369 · DOI
- Friederici, 2012, Language development and the ontogeny of the dorsal pathway, Front. Evol. Neurosci., 4, 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00003 · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Friederici, A. D., & Gierhan, S. M. E. (2012) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2012.10.002 · Cited by 673
Self-citationThe neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing
Schrimpf, M., Blank, I. A., Tuckute, G., Kauf, C., Hosseini, E. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2105646118 · Cited by 517
Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.
Pickering, M. J., & Gambi, C. (2018) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/bul0000158 · Cited by 581
Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition
Norman-Haignere, S., Kanwisher, N., & McDermott, J. H. (2015) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.035 · Cited by 476
The Neurobiology of Language Beyond Single Words
Peter Hagoort, A., & Indefrey, P. (2014) · Annual Review of Neuroscience · doi:10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-013847 · Cited by 413
Metadata
- Authors
- Friederici, A. D.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Corresponding author
- 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)
- 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
- 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
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
