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JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 1173-1184Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041920522
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [DC-3378] Funding Source: Medline
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To recognize phonemes across variation in talkers, listeners can use information about vocal characteristics, a process referred to as talker normalization.'' The present study investigates the cortical mechanisms underlying talker normalization using fMRI. Listeners recognized target words presented in either a spoken list produced by a single talker or a mix of different talkers. It was found that both conditions activate an extensive cortical network. However, recognizing words in the mixed-talker condition, relative to the blocked-talker condition, activated middle/superior temporal and superior parietal regions to a greater degree. This temporal-parietal network is possibly associated with selectively attending and processing spectral and spatial acoustic cues required in recognizing speech in a mixed-talker condition.
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