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Shared language: Overlap and segregation of the neuronal infrastructure for speaking and listening revealed by functional MRI

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Menenti,  Laura
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow ;
Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Gierhan,  Sarah
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Segaert,  Katrien
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;
Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Unification, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Hagoort,  Peter
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;
Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Unification, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Radboud University Nijmegen;

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Menenti, L., Gierhan, S., Segaert, K., & Hagoort, P. (2011). Shared language: Overlap and segregation of the neuronal infrastructure for speaking and listening revealed by functional MRI. Psychological Science, 22, 1173-1182. doi:10.1177/0956797611418347.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-413F-C
Abstract
Whether the brain’s speech-production system is also involved in speech comprehension is a topic of much debate. Research has focused on whether motor areas are involved in listening, but overlap between speaking and listening might occur not only at primary sensory and motor levels, but also at linguistic levels (where semantic, lexical, and syntactic processes occur). Using functional MRI adaptation during speech comprehension and production, we found that the brain areas involved in semantic, lexical, and syntactic processing are mostly the same for speaking and for listening. Effects of primary processing load (indicative of sensory and motor processes) overlapped in auditory cortex and left inferior frontal cortex, but not in motor cortex, where processing load affected activity only in speaking. These results indicate that the linguistic parts of the language system are used for both speaking and listening, but that the motor system does not seem to provide a crucial contribution to listening.