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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 701-702 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Nature neuroscience |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)