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BRAIN
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages 2400-2406Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.12.2400
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PET; superior temporal sulcus; speech perception
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It has been proposed that the identification of sounds, including species-specific vocalizations, by primates depends on anterior projections from the primary auditory cortex, an auditory pathway analogous to the ventral route proposed for the visual identification of objects. We have identified a similar route in the human for understanding intelligible speech. Using PET imaging to identify separable neural subsystems within the human auditory cortex, we used a variety of speech and speech-like stimuli with equivalent acoustic complexity but varying intelligibility. We have demonstrated that the left superior temporal sulcus responds to the presence of phonetic information, but its anterior part only responds if the stimulus is also Intelligible. This novel observation demonstrates a left anterior temporal pathway for speech comprehension.
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