Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca's area : concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings

Pelle Söderström, Merle Horne, Peter Mannfolk, Danielle van Westen, Mikael Roll

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Abstract

Listeners are constantly trying to predict what the speaker will say next. We concurrently measured the electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlates of syntactic pre-activation, investigating when and where the brain processes speech melody cues to upcoming word order structure. Pre-activation of syntactic structure was reflected in a left-lateralised pre-activation negativity (PrAN), which was subserved by Broca's area in the left inferior frontal gyrus, as well as the contiguous left anterior insula.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)76-82
Number of pages7
JournalBrain Research
Volume1697
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Open Access - Access Right Statement

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords

  • speech
  • speech prosody
  • syntax

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