Dual routes for verbal repetition: Articulation-based and acoustic–phonetic codes for pseudoword and word repetition, respectively  

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Yoo, Sejin ; Chung, Jun-Young ; Jeon, Hyeon-Ae ; Lee, Kyoung-Min ; Kim, Young-Bo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 122 no. 1 (2012), page 1-10.
Topik: Speech perception; Speech production; Verbal repetition; Audition–articulation interface; Dual-stream model; Imitative learning
Fulltext: 122_01_Yoo.pdf (714.11KB)

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Speech production is inextricably linked to speech perception, yet they are usually investigated in isolation. In this study, we employed a verbal-repetition task to identify the neural substrates of speech processing with two ends active simultaneously using functional MRI. Subjects verbally repeated auditory stimuli containing an ambiguous vowel sound that could be perceived as either a word or a pseudoword depending on the interpretation of the vowel. We found verbal repetition commonly activated the audition–articulation interface bilaterally at Sylvian fissures and superior temporal sulci. Contrasting word-versus-pseudoword trials revealed neural activities unique to word repetition in the left posterior middle temporal areas and activities unique to pseudoword repetition in the left inferior frontal gyrus. These findings imply that the tasks are carried out using different speech codes: an articulation-based code of pseudowords and an acoustic–phonetic code of words. It also supports the dual-stream model and imitative learning of vocabulary.

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