Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing

By Josef P. Rauschecker, Sophie K. Scott. Nature Neuroscience, 2009

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Speech and language are considered uniquely human abilities: animals have communication systems, but they do not match human linguistic skills in terms of recursive structure and combinatorial power. Yet, in evolution, spoken language must have emerged from neural mechanisms at least partially available in animals. In this paper, we will demonstrate how our understanding of speech perception, one important facet of language, has profited from findings and theory in nonhuman primate studies. Chief among these are physiological and anatomical studies showing that primate auditory cortex, across species, shows patterns of hierarchical structure, topographic mapping and streams of functional processing. We will identify roles for different cortical areas in the perceptual processing of speech and review functional imaging work in humans that bears on our understanding of how the brain decodes and monitors speech. A new model connects structures in the temporal, frontal and parietal lobes linking speech perception and production.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Sensorimotor Integration in Speech Processing: Computational Basis and Neural Organization (2011, positive): “The model can be viewed as a spelling out of the computations involved in the ''dorsal'' auditory/speech stream proposed as part of the dual stream model of speech processing (e.g., Figure 3) (Hickok and Poeppel, 2000, 2004, 2007; for a similar view, see Rauschecker and Scott, 2009).”
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Neural processing of natural sounds (2014, background): “Similar cortical areas have been shown in a large body of research to be critical for human speech processing [99].”
Speech Production as State Feedback Control (2011, background): “This has led to refined looped and “dual stream” models of speech processing (Hickok and Poeppel, 2007; Rauschecker and Scott, 2009; Hickok et al., 2011) with a ventral stream serving speech comprehension and a dorsal stream serving feedback processing related to speaking.”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “000001; see Figure S3), as well as to more posterior areas in the auditory ventral stream (Rauschecker and Scott, 2009), which may correspond to the phoneme-processing network (DeWitt and Rauschecker, 2012).”
The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis (2013, background): “This idea of perception involving input from motor to auditory cortex resonates with the “inverse model” idea articulated in Rauschecker and Scott (2009), Rauschecker (2011), and other studies.”
Converging toward a common speech code: imitative and perceptuo-motor recalibration processes in speech production (2013, positive): “…the ventral premotor cortex and the posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus, with sensorimotor interaction converging in the supramarginal gyrus (Rauschecker and Scott, 2009; Rauschecker, 2011) or in area SPT (a brain region within the planum temporale near the parieto-temporal junction;…”
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Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Auditory Verbal Hallucinations as Atypical Inner Speech Monitoring, and the Potential of Neurostimulation as a Treatment Option (neutral): “It is possible that the IPL is part of a feed-forward mechanism between speech production areas and temporal areas (Rauschecker and Scott, 2009), which may explain evidence of its involvement in feelings of agency and monitoring tasks.”