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

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

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2018.06.004

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

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

Western Sydney University

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	76-82
Number of pages	7
Journal	Brain Research
Volume	1697
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2018.06.004
Publication status	Published - 2018

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speech prosody
syntax

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