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Brain regions involved in articulation

Wise, RJS, Greene, J, Büchel, C, Scott, SK·1999·The Lancet

Abstract

Background The left inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area) is generally believed to be critical for the motor act of speech. A lesion-based analysis has, however, shown that the left anterior insula is necessary for accurate articulation. We used functional imaging in normal people to show the neural systems involved in speech during different speech tasks.Methods 12 normal people underwent positron emission tomography with oxygen-15-labelled water as tracer. We measured cerebral activity while participants performed three different tasks: repetition of heard nouns at different rates; listening to single nouns at different rates; and anticipation of listening or repetition. We analysed the data with imaging software.Findings Repetition of single words did not activate Broca's area but activity in three left-lateralised regions was seen: the anterior insula, a localised region in the lateral premotor cortex, and the posterior pallidum. The left anterior insula and lateral premotor cortex showed a conjunction of activity for hearing and articulation. In addition, articulation modulated the response to hearing words in the left dorsolateral temporal cortex, the physiological expression of the speaker's auditory attention being directed towards the stimuli and not his or her articulated responses.Interpretation The formulation of an articulatory plan is a function of the left anterior insula and lateral premotor cortex and not of Broca's area. The left basal ganglia seem to be dominant for speech, although the axial muscles involved receive their motor output from both cerebral hemispheres.

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Authors
Wise, R., Greene, J., Büchel, C., & Scott, S.
Affiliations
  • Hammersmith Hospital (GB)
  • UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
Corresponding author
Wise, RJS
Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-03
Volume
353
Issue
9158
Pages
1057-1061
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
OpenAlex
W2169563681
Cited by
517
References
34
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FWCI
10.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • The Lancet (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (090961)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
Keywords
speech articulation, Broca's area, lateral premotor cortex, articulatory planning, speech motor control, auditory attention, speech rate, basal ganglia, hemispheric lateralization
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Auditory Perception, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Middle Aged, Speech, Speech Articulation Tests, Speech Perception, Tomography, Emission-Computed

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