Neural responses to grammatically and lexically degraded speech

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 567-574

  Bautista, Alexa ^a   Wilson, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

degraded speech; fMRI; intelligibility; Language comprehension; narrative

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; EXPECTATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NARRATIVE; NERVE POTENTIAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS;

EID: 84955089817     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1123281     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. J.Ashburner,, & K.J.Friston, (2005). Unified segmentation. NeuroImage, 26(3), 839–851. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.02.018
2. E.Bates,, & J.C.Goodman, (1997). On the inseparability of grammar and the lexicon: Evidence from acquisition, aphasia and real-time processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12(5–6), 507–584. doi:10.1080/016909697386628
3. C.F.Beckmann,, & S.M.Smith, (2004). Probabilistic independent component analysis for functional magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 23(2), 137–152. doi:10.1109/tmi.2003.822821
4. J.R.Binder,, R.H.Desai,, W.W.Graves,, & L.L.Conant, (2009). Where is the semantic system? A critical review and meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies. Cerebral Cortex, 19(12), 2767–2796. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp055
5. B.Blesser, (1972). Speech perception under conditions of spectral transformation. I. Phonetic characteristics. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 15(1), 5–41. doi:10.1044/jshr.1501.05
6. D.H.Brainard, (1997). The psychophysics toolbox. Spatial Vision, 10(4), 433–436. doi:10.1163/156856897X00357
7. D.Caplan, (1987). Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. R.W.Cox, (1996). AFNI: Software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages. Computers and Biomedical Research, 29(3), 162–173. doi:10.1006/cbmr.1996.0014
9. M.H.Davis,, & I.S.Johnsrude, (2003). Hierarchical processing in spoken language comprehension. Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3423–3431.
10. J.Erb,, M.J.Henry,, F.Eisner,, & J.Obleser, (2013). The brain dynamics of rapid perceptual adaptation to adverse listening conditions. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(26), 10688–10697. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4596-12.2013
11. E.Fedorenko,, A.Nieto-Castañón,, & N.Kanwisher, (2012). Syntactic processing in the human brain: What we know, what we don't know, and a suggestion for how to proceed. Brain and Language, 120(2), 187–207. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.001
12. A.D.Friederici, (2012). The cortical language circuit: From auditory perception to sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(5), 262–268. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.001
13. A.D.Friederici,, M.Meyer,, & D.Y.von Cramon, (2000). Auditory language comprehension: An event-related fMRI study on the processing of syntactic and lexical information. Brain and Language, 75(2), 289–300. doi:10.1006/brln.2000.2313
14. K.J.Friston, (1997). Testing for anatomically specified regional effects. Human Brain Mapping, 5(2), 133–136. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1997)5:2%3C133::aid-hbm7%3E3.0.co;2-4
15. M.L.Gorno-Tempini,, N.F.Dronkers,, K.P.Rankin,, J.M.Ogar,, L.Phengrasamy,, H.J.Rosen,, … B.L.Miller, (2004). Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia. Annals of Neurology, 55(3), 335–346. doi:10.1002/ana.10825
16. J.R.Hodges,, & K.Patterson, (1996). Nonfluent progressive aphasia and semantic dementia: A comparative neuropsychological study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2(06), 511–524. doi:10.1017/S1355617700001685
17. C.Humphries,, J.R.Binder,, D.A.Medler,, & E.Liebenthal, (2006). Syntactic and semantic modulation of neural activity during auditory sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(4), 665–679. doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.4.665
18. R.E.Kelly, Jr, G.S.Alexopoulos,, Z.Wang,, F.M.Gunning,, C.F.Murphy,, S.S.Morimoto,, … M.J.Hoptman, (2010). Visual inspection of independent components: Defining a procedure for artifact removal from fMRI data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 189(2), 233–245. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.03.028
19. R.Kingston, (Author), & M.Gavin, (Narrator). (2001). Fifty famous fairy tales [Audio book]. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Audio.
20. J.S.Kyong,, S.K.Scott,, S.Rosen,, T.B.Howe,, Z.K.Agnew,, & C.McGettigan, (2014). Exploring the roles of spectral detail and intonation contour in speech intelligibility: An FMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(8), 1748–1763. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00583
21. B.M.Mazoyer,, N.Tzourio,, V.Frak,, A.Syrota,, N.Murayama,, O.Levrier,, … J.Mehler, (1993). The cortical representation of speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(4), 467–479. doi:10.1162/jocn.1993.5.4.467
22. J.Obleser,, F.Eisner,, & S.A.Kotz, (2008). Bilateral speech comprehension reflects differential sensitivity to spectral and temporal features. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(32), 8116–8123. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1290-08.2008
23. J.Obleser,, & S.A.Kotz, (2010). Expectancy constraints in degraded speech modulate the language comprehension network. Cerebral Cortex, 20(3), 633–640. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp128
24. C.Pallier,, A.D.Devauchelle,, & S.Dehaene, (2011). Cortical representation of the constituent structure of sentences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(6), 2522–2527. doi:10.1073/pnas.1018711108
25. D.G.Pelli, (1997). The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies. Spatial Vision, 10(4), 437–442. doi:10.1163/156856897X00366
26. D.Saur,, B.W.Kreher,, S.Schnell,, D.Kümmerer,, P.Kellmeyer,, M.-S.Vry,, … C.Weiller, (2008). Ventral and dorsal pathways for language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(46), 18035–18040. doi:10.1073/pnas.0805234105
27. M.F.Schwartz,, O.S.M.Marin,, & E.M.Saffran, (1979). Dissociations of language function in dementia: A case study. Brain and Language, 7(3), 277–306. doi:10.1016/0093-934X(79)90024-5
28. S.K.Scott,, C.C.Blank,, S.Rosen,, & R.J.Wise, (2000). Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left temporal lobe. Brain, 123(12), 2400–2406. doi:10.1093/brain/123.12.2400
29. M.T.Ullman,, R.Pancheva,, T.Love,, E.Yee,, D.Swinney,, & G.Hickok, (2005). Neural correlates of lexicon and grammar: Evidence from the production, reading, and judgment of inflection in aphasia. Brain and Language, 93(2), 185–238. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.10.001
30. R.Vandenberghe,, A.C.Nobre,, & C.J.Price, (2002). The response of left temporal cortex to sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(4), 550–560. doi:10.1162/08989290260045800
31. C.J.Wild,, A.Yusuf,, D.E.Wilson,, J.E.Peelle,, M.H.Davis,, & I.S.Johnsrude, (2012). Effortful listening: The processing of degraded speech depends critically on attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(40), 14010–14021. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1528-12.2012
32. S.M.Wilson,, A.T.DeMarco,, M.L.Henry,, B.Gesierich,, M.Babiak,, M.L.Mandelli,, … M.L.Gorno-Tempini, (2014). What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing? Neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(5), 970–985. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00550
33. S.M.Wilson,, S.Galantucci,, M.C.Tartaglia,, & M.L.Gorno-Tempini, (2012). The neural basis of syntactic deficits in primary progressive aphasia. Brain and Language, 122(3), 190–198. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.005
34. S.M.Wilson,, S.Galantucci,, M.C.Tartaglia,, K.Rising,, D.K.Patterson,, M.L.Henry,, … M.L.Gorno-Tempini, (2011). Syntactic processing depends on dorsal language tracts. Neuron, 72(2), 397–403. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.09.014
35. S.M.Wilson,, M.L.Henry,, M.Besbris,, J.M.Ogar,, N.F.Dronkers,, W.Jarrold,, … M.L.Gorno-Tempini, (2010). Connected speech production in three variants of primary progressive aphasia. Brain, 133(7), 2069–2088. doi:10.1093/brain/awq129
36. K.J.Worsley,, C.H.Liao,, J.Aston,, V.Petre,, G.H.Duncan,, F.Morales,, & A.C.Evans, (2002). A general statistical analysis for fMRI data. NeuroImage, 15(1), 1–15. doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0933
37. K.J.Worsley,, S.Marrett,, P.Neelin,, A.C.Vandal,, K.J.Friston,, & A.C.Evans, (1996). A unified statistical approach for determining significant signals in images of cerebral activation. Human Brain Mapping, 4(1), 58–73. 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1996)4:1%3C58::aid-hbm4%3E3.0.co;2-o doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1996)4:1<58::AID-HBM4>3.0.CO;2-O