Discriminating between auditory and motor cortical responses to speech and nonspeech mouth sounds
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Several perspectives on speech perception posit a central role for the representation of articulations in speech comprehension, supported by evidence for premotor activation when participants listen to speech. However, no experiments have directly tested whether motor responses mirror the profile of selective auditory cortical responses to native speech sounds or whether motor and auditory areas respond in different ways to sounds. We used fMRI to investigate cortical responses to speech and nonspeech mouth (ingressive click) sounds. Speech sounds activated bilateral superior temporal gyri more than other sounds, a profile not seen in motor and premotor cortices. These results suggest that there are qualitative differences in the ways that temporal and motor areas are activated by speech and click sounds: Anterior temporal lobe areas are sensitive to the acoustic or phonetic properties, whereas motor responses may show more generalized responses to the acoustic stimuli.
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The speech-selective response in the left anterior superior temporal cortex is related to the acoustic content of the stimulus.
“the speech selective response in the left anterior superior temporal cortex was related to the acoustic content of the stimulus (Leaver and Rauschecker, 2010; Agnew et al., 2011; Leff et al., 2009; Rauschecker and Scott, 2009; Specht et al., 2009; Friederici et al., 2010; Obleser and Kotz, 2010)”
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 Agnew et al., 2011
The premotor response during perception is also found for non-speech sounds.
“The premotor response during perception was also found for non‐speech sounds (Agnew et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- Agnew, Z. K., McGettigan, C., & Scott, S. K.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Scott, Sophie K.
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2011-12-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 4038-4047
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- PMC
- PMC3361723
- OpenAlex
- W2083130322
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 35 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 0.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (090961)
- 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, auditory cortex, motor cortex, premotor cortex, superior temporal gyrus, anterior temporal lobe, phonetic properties
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Auditory Cortex, Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motor Cortex, Speech Perception
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