The superior temporal Sulcus differentiates communicative and Noncommunicative auditory signals

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1224-1232

  Shultz, Sarah ^a   Vouloumanos, Athena ^b   Pelphrey, Kevin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUTISM; COUGHING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNEEZING; SOUND; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859145500     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00208     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Allison, T., Puce, A., & McCarthy, G. (2000). Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 267-278.
2. Belin, P., Fecteau, S., & Bedard, C. (2004). Thinking the voice: Neural correlates of voice perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 129-135.
3. Belin, P., Zatorre, R. J., Lafaille, P., Ahad, P., & Pike, B. (2000). Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex. Nature, 403, 309-312.
4. Belin, P., Zatorre, R. J., & Ahad, P. (2002). Human temporal-lobe response to vocal sounds. Cognitive Brain Research, 13, 17-26.
5. Binder, J. R., Frost, J. A., Hammeke, T. A., Bellgowan, P. S., Springer, J. A., Kaufman, J. N., et al. (2000). Human temporal lobe activation by speech and nonspeech sounds. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 512-528.
6. Boersma, P., & Weenink, D. (2009). Praat: Doing phonetics by computer [Computer program]. (Version 5.1.07). Available from www.praat.org.
7. Campanella, S., & Belin, P. (2007). Integrating face and voice in person perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 535-543.
8. Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pallier, C., Serniclaes, W., Sprenger-Charolles, L., Jobert, A., & Dehaene, S. (2005). Neural correlates of switching from auditory to speech perception. Neuroimage, 24, 21-33.
9. Fecteau, S., Armony, J. L., Joanette, Y., & Belin, P. (2004). Is voice processing species-specific in human auditory cortex? An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 23, 840-848.
10. Gallagher, H. L., & Frith, C. D. (2003). Functional imaging of "theory of mind." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 77-83.
11. Genovese, C. R., Lazar, N. A., & Nichols, T. (2002). Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using the false discovery rate. Neuroimage, 15, 870-878.
12. Gervais, H., Belin, P., Boddaert, N., Leboyer, M., Coez, A., Sfaello, I., et al. (2004). Abnormal cortical voice processing in autism. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 801-802.
13. Grice, H. P. (1968). Utterer's meaning, sentence meaning, and word meaning. Foundations of Language, 4, 1-18.
14. Hauser, M. D. (2000). A primate dictionary? Decoding the function and meaning of another species' vocalizations. Cognitive Science, 24, 445-475.
15. Haxby, J. V., Hoffman, E. A., & Gobbini, M. I. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 223-233.
16. Hein, G., & Knight, R. T. (2008). Superior temporal sulcus-It's my area: Or is it? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 2125-2136.
17. Hoffman, E. A., & Haxby, J. V. (2000). Distinct representations of eye gaze and identity in the distributed human neural system for face perception. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 80-84.
18. Klin, A. (1991). Young autistic children's listening preferences in regard to speech: A possible characterization of the symptom of social withdrawal. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 21, 29-42.
19. Kriegstein, K. V., & Giraud, A. L. (2004). Distinct functional substrates along the right superior temporal sulcus for the processing of voices. Neuroimage, 22, 948-955.
20. Kuhl, P. K., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., & Dawson, G. (2005). Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: Behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Developmental Science, 8, F1-F12.
21. LaBar, K. S., Crupain, M. J., Voyvodic, J. T., & McCarthy, G. (2003). Dynamic perception of facial affect and identity in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 1023-1033.
22. Leaver, A. M., & Rauschecker, J. P. (2010). Cortical representation of natural complex sounds: Effects of acoustic features and auditory object category. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 7604-7612.
23. Maynard Smith, J., & Harper, D. D. (2003). Animal signals. New York: Oxford University Press.
24. Morris, J. P., Pelphrey, K. A., & McCarthy, G. (2008). Perceived causality influences brain activity evoked by biological motion. Social Neuroscience, 3, 16-25.
25. Möttönen, R., Calvert, G. A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Matthews, P. M., Thesen, T., Tuomainen, J., et al. (2006). Perceiving identical sounds as speech or non-speech modulates activity in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus. Neuroimage, 30, 563-569.
26. Paul, R., & Cohen, D. J. (1985). Comprehension of indirect requests in adults with autistic disorders and mental retardation. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28, 475-479.
27. Pelphrey, K. A., Mitchell, T. V., McKeown, M. J., Goldstein, J., Allison, T., & McCarthy, G. (2003). Brain activity evoked by the perception of human walking: Controlling for meaningful coherent motion. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 6819-6825.
28. Price, C. J. (2000). The anatomy of language: Contributions from functional neuroimaging. Journal of Anatomy, 197, 335-359.
29. Puce, A., & Perrett, D. (2003). Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 358, 435-445.
30. Redcay, E. (2008). The superior temporal sulcus performs a common function for social and speech perception: Implications for the emergence of autism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 123-142.
31. Roder, B., Stock, O., Neville, H., Bien, S., & Rosler, F. (2002). Brain activation modulated by the comprehension of normal and pseudoword sentences of different processing demands: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroimage, 15, 1003-1014.
32. Rutherford, M. D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2002). Reading the mind in the voice: A study with normal adults and adults with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 32, 189-194.
33. Sabbagh, M. A. (1999). Communicative intentions and language: Evidence from right-hemisphere damage and autism. Brain and Language, 70, 29-69.
34. Saxe, R. (2006). Uniquely human social cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16, 235-239.
35. Saxe, R., Xiao, D. K., Kovacs, G., Perrett, D. I., & Kanwisher, N. (2004). A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1435-1446.
36. Specht, K., & Reul, J. (2003). Functional segregation of the temporal lobes into highly differentiated subsystems for auditory perception: An auditory rapid event-related fMRI-task. Neuroimage, 20, 1944-1954.
37. Tomasello, M. (2008). Origins of human communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
38. Vouloumanos, A., Kiehl, K. A., Werker, J. F., & Liddle, P. F. (2001). Detection of sounds in the auditory stream: Event-related fMRI evidence for differential activation to speech and nonspeech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 994-1005.
39. Willems, R. M., de Boer, M., de Ruiter, J. P., Noordzij, M. L., Hagoort, P., & Toni, I. (2010). A dissociation between linguistic and communicative abilities in the human brain. Psychological Science, 21, 8-14.
40. Xu, J., Kemeny, S., Park, G., Frattali, C., & Braun, A. (2005). Language in context: Emergent features of word, sentence, and narrative comprehension. Neuroimage, 25, 1002-1015.
41. Zilbovicius, M., Meresse, I., Chabane, N., Brunelle, F., Samson, Y., & Boddaert, N. (2006). Autism, the superior temporal sulcus and social perception. Trends in Neurosciences, 29, 359-366.