期刊
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
卷 221, 期 1, 页码 577-589出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0926-2
关键词
Phonological encoding; Left superior longitudinal fasciculus; Diffusion tensor imaging; Patients; Connectome
资金
- 973 Program [2013CB837300, 2014CB846100]
- Major Project of National Social Science Foundation [11ZD186]
- NSFC [31171073, 31222024, 31221003, 81071149, 81271548, 81371535, 31271115, 81322021]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [Z111 107067311036]
- NCET [12-0055, 12-0065]
- Beijing Nova Program [Z121110002512032]
- Beijing New Medical Discipline Based Group [100270569]
In speech production, an important step before motor programming is the retrieval and encoding of the phonological elements of target words. It has been proposed that phonological encoding is supported by multiple regions in the left frontal, temporal and parietal regions and their underlying white matter, especially the left arcuate fasciculus (AF) or superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). It is unclear, however, whether the effects of AF/SLF are indeed related to phonological encoding for output and whether there are other white matter tracts that also contribute to this process. We comprehensively investigated the anatomical connectivity supporting phonological encoding in production by studying the relationship between the integrity of all major white matter tracts across the entire brain and phonological encoding deficits in a group of 69 patients with brain damage. The integrity of each white matter tract was measured both by the percentage of damaged voxels (structural imaging) and the mean fractional anisotropy value (diffusion tensor imaging). The phonological encoding deficits were assessed by various measures in two oral production tasks that involve phonological encoding: the percentage of nonword (phonological) errors in oral picture naming and the accuracy of word reading aloud with word comprehension ability regressed out. We found that the integrity of the left SLF in both the structural and diffusion tensor imaging measures consistently predicted the severity of phonological encoding impairment in the two phonological production tasks. Such effects of the left SLF on phonological production remained significant when a range of potential confounding factors were considered through partial correlation, including total lesion volume, demographic factors, lesions on phonological-relevant grey matter regions, or effects originating from the phonological perception or semantic processes. Our results therefore conclusively demonstrate the central role of the left SLF in phonological encoding in speech production.
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