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- Title
Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production.
- Authors
Wilson, Stephen M; Saygin, Ayşe Pinar; Sereno, Martin I; Iacoboni, Marco
- 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.
- Publication
Nature neuroscience, 2004, Vol 7, Issue 7, p701
- ISSN
1097-6256
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nn1263