Ultra-fast speech comprehension in blind subjects engages primary visual cortex, fusiform gyrus, and pulvinar – a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study
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BACKGROUND: Individuals suffering from vision loss of a peripheral origin may learn to understand spoken language at a rate of up to about 22 syllables (syl) per second - exceeding by far the maximum performance level of normal-sighted listeners (ca. 8 syl/s). To further elucidate the brain mechanisms underlying this extraordinary skill, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed in blind subjects of varying ultra-fast speech comprehension capabilities and sighted individuals while listening to sentence utterances of a moderately fast (8 syl/s) or ultra-fast (16 syl/s) syllabic rate. RESULTS: Besides left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), bilateral posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) and left supplementary motor area (SMA), blind people highly proficient in ultra-fast speech perception showed significant hemodynamic activation of right-hemispheric primary visual cortex (V1), contralateral fusiform gyrus (FG), and bilateral pulvinar (Pv). CONCLUSIONS: Presumably, FG supports the left-hemispheric perisylvian "language network", i.e., IFG and superior temporal lobe, during the (segmental) sequencing of verbal utterances whereas the collaboration of bilateral pulvinar, right auditory cortex, and ipsilateral V1 implements a signal-driven timing mechanism related to syllabic (suprasegmental) modulation of the speech signal. These data structures, conveyed via left SMA to the perisylvian "language zones", might facilitate - under time-critical conditions - the consolidation of linguistic information at the level of verbal working memory.
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Blind people can comprehend speech at higher listening rates, and blind VAPA users find speech rates frustratingly slow.
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Many blind people can easily comprehend speech at higher listening rates than sighted people.
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- Authors
- Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., & Ackermann, H.
- Affiliations
- Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Dietrich, Susanne
- Venue
- BMC Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-07-23
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 74-74
- ISSN
- 1471-2202 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3847124
- OpenAlex
- W2030873939
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 82
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BMC Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 550)
- Universität des Saarlandes
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- visual impairment, blind people, primary visual cortex, fusiform gyrus, pulvinar, supplementary motor area, inferior frontal gyrus, posterior superior temporal sulcus, speech rate, verbal working memory, auditory cortex, language network
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Blindness, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Speech Perception, Time Factors, Visual Cortex, Persons with Visual Disabilities, Visually Impaired Persons, Pulvinar, Comprehension
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