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The Cortical Representation of Speech

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 1993 · Vol. 5(4) · pp. 467–479

Bernard Mazoyer✉(Délégation Paris 7)N. Tzourio(Délégation Paris 7)Victor Frak(Délégation Paris 7)A. Syrota(Université Paris Cité)Nobuki Murayama(Hôpital de la Timone)O. Lévrier(Hôpital de la Timone)G Salamon(Hôpital de la Timone)Stanislas Dehaene(École des hautes études en sciences sociales)Laurent Cohen(Inserm)Jacques Mehler(École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

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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.

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism Categorization, perception, and language Language, Metaphor, and CognitionPsychologyProsodySyntaxComprehensionSuperior temporal gyrusTemporal lobeRepresentation (politics)LinguisticsCognitive psychologyNeuroscience

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