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Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production

Wilson, Stephen M, Saygin, Ayşe Pinar, Sereno, Martin I, Iacoboni, Marco·2004·Nature Neuroscience

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To examine the role of motor areas in speech perception, we carried out a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in which subjects listened passively to monosyllables and produced the same speech sounds. Listening to speech activated bilaterally a superior portion of ventral premotor cortex that largely overlapped a speech production motor area centered just posteriorly on the border of Brodmann areas 4a and 6, which we distinguished from a more ventral speech production area centered in area 4p. Our findings support the view that the motor system is recruited in mapping acoustic inputs to a phonetic code.

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Authors
Wilson, S. M., Saygin, A. P., Sereno, M. I., & Iacoboni, M.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Wilson, Stephen M
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2004-06-06
Volume
7
Issue
7
Pages
701-702
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W1984689963
Cited by
885
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15
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FWCI
14.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • University of California, San Diego
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 perception, motor areas, speech production, ventral premotor cortex, Brodmann area 6, phonetic coding, acoustic-phonetic mapping
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motor Cortex, Phonetics, Speech, Speech Perception

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