Coupled neural systems underlie the production and comprehension of naturalistic narrative speech
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Significance: Successful verbal communication requires the finely orchestrated interaction between production-based processes in the speaker’s brain and comprehension-based processes in the listener’s brain. Here we first develop a time-warping tool that enables us to map all brain areas reliably activated during the production of real-world speech. The results indicate that speech production is not localized to the left hemisphere but recruits an extensive bilateral network of linguistic and extralinguistic brain areas. We then directly compare the neural responses during speech production and comprehension and find that the two systems respond in similar ways. Our results argue that a shared neural mechanism supporting both production and comprehension facilitates communication and underline the importance of studying comprehension and production within unified frameworks.
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Dynamic time warping and conditional random fields do not explicitly model event boundaries.
“However, these methods do not explicitly model event boundaries.”
From Discovering Event Structure in Continuous Narrative Perception and Memory (2017) · cites this paper as Silbert, Honey, Simony, Poeppel, & Hasson, 2014
The Time-Warp Analysis section says the paper’s time-warping procedure aligns recordings using similarities between sound waveforms, rather than describing an explicit model of event boundaries. It does not address conditional random fields, so it cannot support that part of the claim. (LLM, conf=0.75)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSpeaker-listener coupling in the default mode network, but not early auditory regions, is disrupted when communication is disrupted by speaking nonsense words, telling a story in a language the listener does not understand, or temporally scrambling the stimulus.
“This study along with further studies revealed that speaker–listener coupling in the DMN, but not early auditory regions, is disrupted when communication is disrupted by either speaking nonsense words86,87, telling a story in a language that the listener does not understand86 or temporally scrambling the stimulus88.”
From The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world (2021) · cites this paper as [87]
Previous studies provided initial evidence for neural alignment between the speaker's brain during story production and the listener's brain during story comprehension.
“Previous studies have provided initial evidence for neural alignment (correlated responses in the temporal domain using intersubject correlation) between the responses observed in the speaker's brain during the production of a story and the responses observed in the listener's brain during the comprehension of the story (Stephens et al. 2010; Silbert et al. 2014).”
From How We Transmit Memories to Other Brains: Constructing Shared Neural Representations Via Communication (2017) · cites this paper as Silbert et al. 2014
Previous work suggests that during communication, neural responses observed in the listener follow the speaker's neural response timecourses with a delay of a few seconds.
“Previous work suggests that during communication, neural responses observed in the listener follow the speaker's neural response timecourses with a delay of a few seconds (Stephens et al. 2010; Dikker et al. 2014; Silbert et al. 2014).”
From How We Transmit Memories to Other Brains: Constructing Shared Neural Representations Via Communication (2017) · cites this paper as Silbert et al. 2014
This finding extends previous research that showed a positive correlation between communication success and speaker-listener neural coupling in the temporal domain in posterior medial cortex, and is consistent with research showing that higher levels of encoding-to-recall pattern similarity in PCC positively correlate with behavioral memory measures.
“This finding extends previous research that showed a positive correlation between communication success and speaker–listener neural coupling in the temporal domain (Stephens et al. 2010; Dikker et al. 2014; Silbert et al. 2014) in posterior medial cortex, and is also consistent with research showing that higher levels of encoding-to-recall pattern similarity in PCC positively correlate with”
From How We Transmit Memories to Other Brains: Constructing Shared Neural Representations Via Communication (2017) · cites this paper as Silbert et al. 2014
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- Authors
- Silbert, L. J., Honey, C. J., Simony, E., Poeppel, D., & Hasson, U.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- New York University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-09-29
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 43
- Pages
- E4687-96
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4217461
- OpenAlex
- W2120773224
- Cited by
- 352
- References
- 113
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 13.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH094480)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- speech production, speech understanding, narrative speech, neural coupling, speaker-listener interaction, left hemisphere dominance, natural speech
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurons, Oxygen, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Speech, Time Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Comprehension, Narration, Young Adult
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