Neural control of fundamental frequency rise and fall in Mandarin tones

Peter Howell; Jing Jiang; Danling Peng; Chunming Lu

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2012.01.004

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Neural control of fundamental frequency rise and fall in Mandarin tones

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Neural control of fundamental frequency rise and fall in Mandarin tones

Peter Howell, Jing Jiang, Danling Peng and Chunming Lu

Brain and language, Vol.121(1), pp.35-46

04/01/2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.01.004

PMID: 22341758

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Abstract

The neural mechanisms used in tone rises and falls in Mandarin were investigated. Nine participants were scanned while they named one-character pictures that required rising or falling tone responses in Mandarin: the left insula and right putamen showed stronger activation between rising and falling tones: the left brainstem showed weaker activation between rising and falling tones. Connectivity analysis showed that the significant projection from the laryngeal motor cortex to the brainstem which was present in rising tones was absent in falling tones. Additionally, there was a significant difference between the connection from the insula to the laryngeal motor cortex which was negative in rising tones but positive in falling tones. These results suggest that the significant projection from the laryngeal motor cortex to the brainstem used in rising tones was not active in falling tones. The connection from the left insula to the laryngeal motor cortex that differs between rising and falling tones may control whether the rise mechanism is active or not. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Title: Subtitle: Neural control of fundamental frequency rise and fall in Mandarin tones
Creators: Peter Howell - University College London
Jing Jiang - Beijing Normal University
Danling Peng - Beijing Normal University
Chunming Lu - Beijing Normal University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Brain and language, Vol.121(1), pp.35-46
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.01.004
PMID: 22341758
ISSN: 0093-934X
eISSN: 1090-2155
Number of pages: 12
Grant note: 30900393 / National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Language: English
Date published: 04/01/2012
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurology (Pediatrics)
Record Identifier: 9984360003402771

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