Journal article
Speech-specific auditory processing: where is it?
Trends in cognitive sciences, Vol.9(6), pp.271-276
06/01/2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.03.009
PMID: 15925805
Abstract
Are speech-specific processes localized in dedicated cortical regions or do they emerge from developmental plasticity in the connections among non-dedicated regions? Here we claim that all the brain regions activated by the processing of auditory speech can be re-classified according to whether they respond to non-verbal environmental sounds, pitch changes, unfamiliar melodies, or conceptual processes. We therefore argue that speech-specific processing emerges from differential demands on auditory and conceptual processes that are shared by speech and non-speech stimuli. This has implications for domain- vs. process-specific cognitive models, and for the relative importance of segregation and integration in functional anatomy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Speech-specific auditory processing: where is it?
- Creators
- Cathy Price - Wellcome Centre for Human NeuroimagingGuillaume Thierry - Bangor UniversityTim Griffiths
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Trends in cognitive sciences, Vol.9(6), pp.271-276
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tics.2005.03.009
- PMID
- 15925805
- ISSN
- 1364-6613
- eISSN
- 1879-307X
- Grant note
- 051067 / Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984627198002771
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