The Cortical Representation of Speech

作者：Bernard M. Mazoyer, Nathalie Tzourio, Victor Frak, A. Syrota, Nobuki Murayama, Olivier Levrier, G Salamon, Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen, Jacques Mehler · 发表于：Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 年份：1993 · DOI：10.1162/jocn.1993.5.4.467 · 被引用次数：731 · 研究领域：Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism、Categorization, perception, and language、Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Abstract In this study, we compare regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) while French monolingual subjects listen to continuous speech in an unknown language, to lists of French words, or to meaningful and distorted stories in French. Our results show that, in addition to regions devoted to single-word comprehension, processing of meaningful stories activates the left middle temporal gyrus, the left and right temporal poles, and a superior prefrontal area in the left frontal lobe. Among these regions, only the temporal poles remain activated whenever sentences with acceptable syntax and prosody are presented.