English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
  When sentences live up to your expectations

Tuennerhoff, J., & Noppeney, U. (2016). When sentences live up to your expectations. NeuroImage, 124(Part A), 641-653. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.004.

Item is

Files

show Files

Locators

show
hide
Locator:
Link (Any fulltext)
Description:
-
OA-Status:

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
Tuennerhoff, J1, 2, Author           
Noppeney, U1, 2, 3, Author           
Affiliations:
1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497794              
2Research Group Cognitive Neuroimaging, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497804              
3Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: -
 Abstract: Speech recognition is rapid, automatic and amazingly robust. How the brain is able to decode speech from noisy acoustic inputs is unknown. We show that the brain recognizes speech by integrating bottom-up acoustic signals with top-down predictions. Subjects listened to intelligible normal and unintelligible fine structure speech that lacked the predictability of the temporal envelope and did not enable access to higher linguistic representations. Their top-down predictions were manipulated using priming. Activation for unintelligible fine structure speech was confined to primary auditory cortices, but propagated into posterior middle temporal areas when fine structure speech was made intelligible by top-down predictions. By contrast, normal speech engaged posterior middle temporal areas irrespective of subjects’ predictions. Critically, when speech violated subjects’ expectations, activation increases in anterior temporal gyri/sulci signalled a prediction error and the need for new semantic integration. In line with predictive coding, our findings compellingly demonstrate that top-down predictions determine whether and how the brain translates bottom-up acoustic inputs into intelligible speech.

Details

show
hide
Language(s):
 Dates: 2016-01
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: -
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: -
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.004
BibTex Citekey: TuennerhoffN2015
 Degree: -

Event

show

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source 1

show
hide
Title: NeuroImage
Source Genre: Journal
 Creator(s):
Affiliations:
Publ. Info: -
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 124 (Part A) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 641 - 653 Identifier: -