Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production
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- 6 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 7 (7) , 701-702
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1263
Abstract
To examine the role of motor areas in speech perception, we carried out a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in which subjects listened passively to monosyllables and produced the same speech sounds. Listening to speech activated bilaterally a superior portion of ventral premotor cortex that largely overlapped a speech production motor area centered just posteriorly on the border of Brodmann areas 4a and 6, which we distinguished from a more ventral speech production area centered in area 4p. Our findings support the view that the motor system is recruited in mapping acoustic inputs to a phonetic code.Keywords
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