Parametrically Dissociating Speech and Nonspeech Perception in the Brain Using fMRI |
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Authors: | Randall R. Benson D. H. Whalen Matthew Richardson Brook Swainson Vincent P. Clark Song Lai Alvin M. Liberman |
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Affiliation: | Department of Neurology, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT 06030-2017, USA. benson@nso.uchc.edu |
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Abstract: | Candidate brain regions constituting a neural network for preattentive phonetic perception were identified with fMRI and multivariate multiple regression of imaging data. Stimuli contrasted along speech/nonspeech, acoustic, or phonetic complexity (three levels each) and natural/synthetic dimensions. Seven distributed brain regions' activity correlated with speech and speech complexity dimensions, including five left-sided foci [posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG), angular gyrus, ventral occipitotemporal cortex, inferior/posterior supramarginal gyrus, and middle frontal gyrus (MFG)] and two right-sided foci (posterior STG and anterior insula). Only the left MFG discriminated natural and synthetic speech. The data also supported a parallel rather than serial model of auditory speech and nonspeech perception. |
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Keywords: | Key Words: brain language speech phonetic imaging fMRI parametric Wernicke auditory perception |
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