Subject's own speech reduces reactivity of the human auditory cortex
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Previous studies on monkeys have shown that uttering-related cortical areas exert an inhibitory effect on the auditory cortex, and cerebral blood-flow analyses on humans have revealed modulation of the activity of the auditory cortex during own speech. To study this modulation on a millisecond time scale, we recorded neuromagnetic evoked responses to short 1-kHz tones while the subjects were reading silently and aloud. The 100-ms response (M100) of the auditory cortex was delayed by 10-21 ms and its amplitude was dampened by 44-71% during reading aloud compared with reading silently. This effect was more prominent in responses to ipsilateral than contralateral tones, possibly due to a sum effect of diminished ipsilateral input to the cortex and decreased transcallosal excitation.
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Speaking aloud reduces responses to sounds presented at the same time, and this suppression has been interpreted as evidence for auditory efference copies.
“overt speech usually has dampening effects on simultaneously presented auditory stimuli (Numminen et al., 1999; Curio et al., 2000; Houde et al., 2002), and such speaking-induced response suppression has been argued to point to auditory efference copies.”
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- Authors
- Numminen, J., Salmelin, R., & Hari, R.
- Corresponding author
- Numminen, Jussi
- Venue
- Neuroscience Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-04
- Volume
- 265
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 119-122
- ISSN
- 0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1975671211
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Keywords
- auditory cortex, reactivity, reading aloud, silent reading, cortical inhibition
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Cortex, Female, Humans, Male, Reaction Time, Reading, Speech, Magnetoencephalography
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