Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: a TMS study

By Luciano Fadiga, Laila Craighero, Giovanni Buccino, Giacomo Rizzolatti. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders (2019, background): “…production can be acquired symbiotically through a sensorimotor loop relating acoustic perception and articulator movements (Houde and Jordan, 1998; Fadiga et al., 2002; Watkins et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2004; Pulvermüller et al., 2006; Kröger et al., 2009; Bolhuis et al., 2010; Kröger and…”
The Perception-for-Action-Control Theory (PACT): A perceptuo-motor theory of speech perception. (2012, background): “Importantly, this speech motor ‘resonance’ mechanism appears to be articulatory specific, motor facilitation being stronger when the recorded muscle and the presented speech stimulus imply the same articulator (Fadiga et al., 2002; Roy et al., 2008).”
The functional neuroanatomy of metrical stress evaluation of perceived and imagined spoken words. (2004, background): “…and speech perception have shown that cerebral areas thought to be devoted to motor aspects of speech planning and execution could also be activated even in the absence of overt speech (e.g. Yetkin et al., 1995; Fiez et al., 1996; Fadiga et al., 2002; Shergill et al., 2002; Watkins et al., 2003).”
Neural Dynamics of Learning Sound—Action Associations (2008, background): “As hearing speech elicits muscle activity in the tongue muscles [17].”
The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review (2005, positive): “But an audiovocal analog of the mirror system apparently exists (Fadiga et al. 2002; Kohler et al. 2002), making this claim unjustified.”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, background): “In a TMS experiment, Fadiga et al. (2002) showed that listening to phonemes induces an increase of motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) amplitude recorded from the tongue muscles involved in their execution.”
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, background): “Studies have shown this area to be active in human action observation, action imagery and language understandin”
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, background): “…ventral premotor (BA6/44) and inferior parietal cortex (area PF) where mirror neurons (MNs) have been found in monkeys, sVx were reliably observed in dorsal premotor, supplementary motor, middle cingulate, somatosensory (BA3, BA2, and OP1), superior parietal, middle temporal cortex and cerebellum.”
From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics (2005, background): “me first list a number of key articles − Binkofski et al. (1999), Decety et al. (1997), Fadiga et al. (2002) , Grezes et”
The neuroanatomical and functional organization of speech perception. (2003, background): “Consistent with this work, recent studies in humans have revealed that speech perception, either watching speaking mouths or listening to speech without visual input, enhances the excitability of motor cortex in the left hemisphere relative to nonlinguistic baseline perceptual tasks [88, 89 ].”
Launching Language: The Gestural Origin of Discrete Infinity (2002, background): “Evidence consistent with activation of a mirror neuron system in the perception of speech has indeed already come from transcranial magnetic stimulation studies ( Fadiga, Craighero, Buccino and Rizzolatti 2002 ), and we believe that our hypotheses concerning the mechanisms of facial and vocal imitat”
Computational neuroanatomy of speech production (2012, background): “This assertion is based on the observation that the perception of others’ speech activates motor speech systems 53,54 and that the speech of others, even if it is ambient, can be unintentionally imitated by a listener or speaker 55–57 .”
Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “Tongue muscles were activated while the subject was listening to “rr” which requires tongue action but not when listening to “ff,” indicating phoneme-specificity in the activation of speech-related motor areas (53).”
Alignment as the Basis for Successful Communication (2006, background): “Fadiga, Craighero, Buccino, and Rizzolatti (2002) found that listeners activated appropriate muscles in the tongue while listening to speech (but not during non-speech).”
The iCub humanoid robot: an open platform for research in embodied cognition (2008, background): “The RobotCub stance on cognition posits that manipulation plays a fundamental role in the development of cognitive capability [ 1- 4 ]. As many of these basic skills are not ready-made at birth, but developed during ontogenesis [5], RobotCub aims at testing and developing this paradigm through the c”