51. Cortical and subcortical contributions to the attentive processing of speech.
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Christensen TA, Antonucci SM, Lockwood JL, Kittleson M, and Plante E
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- Adolescent, Adult, Attention physiology, Basal Ganglia anatomy & histology, Cerebral Cortex anatomy & histology, Cognition physiology, Dichotic Listening Tests methods, Gyrus Cinguli anatomy & histology, Gyrus Cinguli physiology, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Male, Middle Aged, Nerve Net anatomy & histology, Nerve Net physiology, Parietal Lobe anatomy & histology, Parietal Lobe physiology, Prefrontal Cortex anatomy & histology, Prefrontal Cortex physiology, Thalamus anatomy & histology, Voice physiology, Basal Ganglia physiology, Cerebral Cortex physiology, Speech Perception physiology, Thalamus physiology
- Abstract
The neuroanatomical correlates of attentive listening were investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging and an attention task in which listeners responded only to words that combined two specific attributes of voice and semantic content. This task was performed under two different attentive listening conditions: (i) diotically, with words presented sequentially, and (ii) dichotically, with male and female voices presented simultaneously but segregated to different ears. For both conditions, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed bihemispheric but right-lateralized activity patterns in mid-prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and inferior parietal areas, as well as significant anterior insular and subcortical activation. Manipulating attentional demands under different listening conditions revealed an important role for right anterior insula, striatum, and thalamus in the regulation of attentive listening to spoken language.
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- 2008
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