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The effects of attention on speech perception: an fMRI study

Hugdahl, Kenneth, Thomsen, Tormod, Ersland, Lars, Morten Rimol, Lars, Niemi, Jussi·2003·Brain and Language
DOI 10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00500-x
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Focusing of attention to a specific speech source plays an important role in everyday speech perception. However, little is known of the neuronal substrates of focused attention in speech perception. Thus, the present study investigated the effects on neuronal activation of directed attention to auditory stimuli that differed in semantic content. Using an event-related fMRI protocol, single vowels, three-phoneme pseudowords and three- and four-phoneme real nouns and words were randomly presented to the subjects during four different instructional conditions. One condition was passive listening without any specific instructions of focusing of attention. The other conditions were attention focused on either the vowels, the pseudowords or the words. Thus, the acoustic stimulation was constant across conditions. The subjects were 13 healthy adults. Functional MRI was performed with a 1.5 T scanner, using an event-related design. During passive listening, there were significant activations bilaterally in the superior temporal gyrus. Instruction to attend to the pseudowords caused activation in middle temporal lobe areas, extending more anterior compared to the activations seen during passive listening. Instruction to attend to the vowel sounds caused an increase in activation in the superior/medial temporal lobe, with a leftward asymmetry. Instruction to attend to the words caused a leftward asymmetry, particularly in the middle and superior temporal gyri. It is concluded that attention plays a modulatory role in neuronal activation to speech sounds, producing specific activations to specific stimulus categories that may act to facilitate speech perception.

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  • The speech selective auditory response in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus was repeatedly demonstrated even when acoustic complexity was controlled.

    “The speech selective auditory response in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus was repeatedly demonstrated even when acoustic complexity was controlled (Narain et al., 2003; Giraud et al., 2004; Hugdahl et al., 2003; Benson et al., 2006; Rimol et al., 2006).”

    From A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012) · cites this paper as Hugdahl et al., 2003

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Authors
Hugdahl, K., Thomsen, T., Ersland, L., Morten Rimol, L., & Niemi, J.
Affiliations
  • Haukeland University Hospital (NO)
  • University of Bergen (NO)
  • University of Eastern Finland (FI)
Corresponding author
Hugdahl, Kenneth
ORCID
Hugdahl, Kenneth
Venue
Brain and Language
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-04
Volume
85
Issue
1
Pages
37-48
ISSN
0093-934X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00500-x
OpenAlex
W2091607064
Cited by
93
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 6
FWCI
3.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Brain and Language (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Keywords
speech perception, attention, auditory attention, semantic attention, neuronal activation, superior temporal gyrus, middle temporal lobe, time asymmetry, pseudowords, vowels, words, passive listening, event-related fMRI
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Brain, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neurons, Random Allocation, Semantics, Speech Perception

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