Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing
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Cerebral activation was measured with positron emission tomography in ten human volunteers. The primary auditory cortex showed increased activity in response to noise bursts, whereas acoustically matched speech syllables activated secondary auditory cortices bilaterally. Instructions to make judgments about different attributes of the same speech signal resulted in activation of specific lateralized neural systems. Discrimination of phonetic structure led to increased activity in part of Broca's area of the left hemisphere, suggesting a role for articulatory recoding in phonetic perception. Processing changes in pitch produced activation of the right prefrontal cortex, consistent with the importance of right-hemisphere mechanisms in pitch perception.
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When subjects engage in pitch processing tasks, right hemisphere activation is present, whereas phonetic processing tasks using the same stimuli produce left hemisphere activation.
“Moreover, even when phonetic content is available while subjects are engaged in pitch processing tasks, right hemisphere activation, as opposed to the left hemisphere activation resulting from phonetic processing tasks using the same stimuli, is present (Blumstein and Cooper, 1974;Zatorre et al., 1992).”
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- Authors
- Zatorre, R. J., Evans, A. C., Meyer, E., & Gjedde, A.
- Affiliations
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1992-05-08
- Volume
- 256
- Issue
- 5058
- Pages
- 846-849
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2015103469
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- FWCI
- 22.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- hemispheric lateralization, speech processing, phonetic discrimination, pitch discrimination, primary auditory cortex, secondary auditory cortex, Broca's area, right prefrontal cortex, noise bursts
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Auditory Cortex, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phonetics, Pitch Discrimination, Reference Values, Speech, Speech Perception, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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