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On-line plasticity in spoken sentence comprehension: Adapting to time-compressed speech

Adank, P; Devlin, JT; (2010) On-line plasticity in spoken sentence comprehension: Adapting to time-compressed speech. NEUROIMAGE , 49 (1) 1124 - 1132. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.032. Green open access

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Abstract

Listeners show remarkable flexibility in Processing variation in speech signal. One striking example is the ease with which they adapt to novel speech distortions such as listening to someone with a foreign accent. Behavioural studies suggest that significant improvements in comprehension Occur rapidly - often within 10-20 sentences. In the present experiment, we investigate the neural changes underlying on-line adaptation to distorted speech using time-compressed speech. Listeners performed a sentence verification task on normal-speed and time-compressed sentences while their neural responses were recorded using fMRI. The results showed that rapid learning of the time-compressed speech occurred during presentation of the first block of 16 sentences and was associated with increased activation in left and right auditory association cortices and in left ventral premotor Cortex. These findings suggest that the ability to adapt to a distorted speech signal may, in part, rely on mapping novel acoustic patterns onto existing articulatory motor plans, consistent with the idea that speech perception involves integrating multi-modal information including auditory and motoric cues. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Type: Article
Title: On-line plasticity in spoken sentence comprehension: Adapting to time-compressed speech
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.032
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.032
Language: English
Additional information: Published Open Access
Keywords: Learning, Auditory systems, Functional MRI, Prefrontal cortex, Temporal cortex, EVENT-RELATED FMRI, LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION, AUDITORY-CORTEX, TEMPORAL-LOBE, PERCEPTUAL ADJUSTMENT, NONSPEECH SOUNDS, PREMOTOR CORTEX, ACOUSTIC NOISE, BRAIN ACTIVITY, MOTOR THEORY
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1304858
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