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Computational neuroanatomy of speech production

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Hickok, Gregory·2012·Nature Reviews Neuroscience

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Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions, psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the resulting chasm between these approaches seems to reflect a level of analysis difference: whereas motor control is concerned with lower-level articulatory control, psycholinguistics focuses on higher-level linguistic processing. However, closer examination of both approaches reveals a substantial convergence of ideas. The goal of this article is to integrate psycholinguistic and motor control approaches to speech production. The result of this synthesis is a neuroanatomically grounded, hierarchical state feedback control model of speech production.

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  • Inner speech production is associated with a time-locked and content-specific internal forward model, similar to the one that operates in the production of overt speech.

    “These results suggest that inner speech production is associated with a time-locked and content-specific internal forward model, similar to the one that operates in the production of overt speech.”

    From Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech (2017) · cites this paper as Hickok, 2012

    In “Sensory targets” (page unavailable), the paper describes internal and external monitoring as phases of the same speech-control mechanism and discusses forward predictions tied to sensory targets. It does not establish that inner speech has a time-locked, content-specific forward model; that more specific conclusion is not supported by the cited text. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Hickok, G.
Affiliations
University of California, Irvine (US)
Corresponding author
Hickok, Gregory
Venue
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Published
2012-01-05
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
135-145
ISSN
  • 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0048
OpenAlex
W2009357672
Cited by
837
References
147
Citations by year
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FWCI
4.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC009659, R01DC003681, DC009659)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Voice and Speech Disorders
Keywords
speech production, computational neuroanatomy, sensorimotor integration, psycholinguistics, language processing, motor control, speech motor control
MeSH terms
Cerebral Cortex, Feedback, Humans, Models, Biological, Neuroanatomy, Psycholinguistics, Speech

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