Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production

By Stephen M. Wilson, Ayse Pinar Saygin, Martin I. Sereno, Marco Iacoboni. Nature Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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How do forward models work? And why would you want them? (2013, positive): “For instance, inner slips tend to create words, just like their overt counterparts (Corley et al. 2011; Oppenheim & Dell 2008; 2010), and their distributions resemble overt slips in other ways (Dell 1978; Postma & Noordanus 1996).”
Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing (2009, background): “Conversely, real or imagined speech sounds and music result in activation within premotor areas important in overt production of speec”
Measuring the perceptual availability of phonological features during language acquisition using unsupervised binary stochastic autoencoders (2019, background): “…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 Cao, 2015; Bekolay, 2016).”
Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition (2007, result): “An activation of motor areas devoted to speech production during passive listening to phonemes has recently also been demonstrated in an fMRI study (Wilson et al. 2004).”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “…(ii) the left ventral premotor cortexwas also associatedwith articulatory recoding when participants passively listened to unfamiliar speech sounds (Wilson et al., 2004;Wilson and Iacoboni, 2006); (iii) ventro-lateral prefrontal cortex was associated with working memory demands and (iv) the…”
The motor theory of speech perception reviewed (2006, background): “…FOWLeR, AND TuRvey more closely connected with research and theorizing in the broad context of cognitive science (e.g., Fadiga et al., 2002; Kerzel & Bekkering, 2000; Rizzolatti & Arbib, 1998; viviani, 2002; S. M. Wilson et al., 2004) than it is with research and theorizing in the field of speech.”
Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions (2007, background): “Previous studies, however, have mostly focused on actions that we all learn from infancy and that are typically overexperienced, for example, hand clapping (Pizzamiglio et al., 2005), tongue clicking (Hauk et al., 2006), and speech (Fadiga et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2004; Buccino et al., 2005).”
Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing (2006, background): “This hypothesis is confirmed both by a recent report showing that listening to syllables activates motor areas at the same location as RolS, which was shown to be involved during speech production in the same subjects (Wilson et al., 2004).”
Brain mechanisms linking language and action (2005, background): “Such studies have shown that while listening to syllables and words, the left inferior frontal cortex is active, as are the superior temporal areas in the vicinity of the auditory corte”