Lateralization of speech and auditory temporal processing
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To investigate the role of temporal processing in language lateralization, we monitored asymmetry of cerebral activation in human volunteers using positron emission tomography (PET). Subjects were scanned during passive auditory stimulation with nonverbal sounds containing rapid (40 msec) or extended (200 msec) frequency transitions. Bilateral symmetric activation was observed in the auditory cortex for slow frequency transitions. In contrast, left-biased asymmetry was observed in response to rapid frequency transitions due to reduced response of the right auditory cortex. These results provide direct evidence that auditory processing of rapid acoustic transitions is lateralized in the human brain. Such functional asymmetry in temporal processing is likely to contribute to language lateralization from the lowest levels of cortical processing.
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Left lateralized responses to nonspeech sounds in the auditory cortex are associated with rapid relative to slow frequency transitions.
“Left lateralized responses to nonspeech sounds were identified in the auditory cortex (superior temporal gyri) by Belin et al. (1998) when participants listened to nonverbal sounds containing rapid relative to slow frequency transitions (Belin et al., 1998; Zatorre and Belin, 2001; Giraud et al., 2000).”
From A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012) · cites this paper as Belin et al., 1998
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- Authors
- Belin, P., Zilbovicius, M., Crozier, S., Thivard, L., Fontaine, A. A., Masure, M.-C., & Samson, Y.
- Affiliations
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, DRM, CEA, Orsay, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 1998-07
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 536-540
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2135611188
- Cited by
- 324
- References
- 23
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- FWCI
- 7.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- language lateralization, auditory temporal processing, hemispheric lateralization, auditory cortex, nonverbal sounds
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Cortex, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Speech, Temporal Lobe, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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