Publication Date:
1992-05-08
Description:
Cerebral activation was measured with positron emission tomography in ten human volunteers. The primary auditory cortex showed increased activity in response to noise bursts, whereas acoustically matched speech syllables activated secondary auditory cortices bilaterally. Instructions to make judgments about different attributes of the same speech signal resulted in activation of specific lateralized neural systems. Discrimination of phonetic structure led to increased activity in part of Broca's area of the left hemisphere, suggesting a role for articulatory recoding in phonetic perception. Processing changes in pitch produced activation of the right prefrontal cortex, consistent with the importance of right-hemisphere mechanisms in pitch perception.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zatorre, R J -- Evans, A C -- Meyer, E -- Gjedde, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 May 8;256(5058):846-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1589767" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acoustic Stimulation
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Auditory Cortex/anatomy & histology/*physiology/radionuclide imaging
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Functional Laterality
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Humans
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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*Phonetics
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*Pitch Discrimination
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Reference Values
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Speech
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*Speech Perception
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Tomography, Emission-Computed/methods
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
