Prosodic clues to syntactic processing—a PET and ERP study

Strelnikov, Kuzma; Vorobyev, Victor; Chernigovskaya, Tatiana V.; Медведев, С. В.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.08.021

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“…Since then, other instances of cerebellar patients displaying expressive and/or receptive agrammatism, frequently associated with more extensive linguistic impairments, have been reported [24,25,[29][30][31][32][33] . Strelnikov et al [34] investigated brain mechanisms underlying syntactically correct perception of phrases with syntagmatic splitting using PET in 12 right-handed subjects. Activation was seen in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and medial posterior area of the right cerebellum.…”

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The Cerebellum and Language: The Story So Far

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Baillieux

Deyn

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Background: The cerebellum was traditionally considered to be exclusively involved in the coordination of voluntary movement, gait, posture, balance and motor speech. However, this view was challenged by recent neuroanatomical, neuroimaging and clinical findings, providing preliminary evidence of a cerebellar contribution to linguistic functioning. Aim: To discuss the role of the cerebellum in a variety of linguistic functions and to explore the underlying mechanisms. Methods: A literature search was conducted via electronic databases. Exclusion criteria were: disorders following congenital cerebellar lesions, motor speech disorders, cognitive deficits outside the language sphere, neuropsychiatric disorders and insufficient information on the cerebellar role in language. Abstracts were not included. In addition, only adult subjects were taken into consideration. Results: A variety of linguistic disorders were found to occur following acquired cerebellar lesions: (1) impaired phonological and semantic fluency; (2) agrammatism (at morphological and sentence level); (3) naming and word finding difficulties; (4) cerebellar-induced aphasia; (5) reading difficulties; (6) writing problems, and (7) higher-level language deficits, including disturbed listening comprehension, impaired language proficiency and metalinguistic ability. Several hypotheses have been suggested to explain the nature of the cerebellar contribution to language. However, findings are not univocal. Conclusion: The cerebellum appears to be involved in a variety of linguistic functions. However, the precise nature of this contribution is not clear yet. Linguistic, neuroimaging, neuroanatomical and neuropsychological studies should be combined in order to disentangle the specific contribution of the cerebellum to linguistic processing.

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The Cerebellum and Language: The Story So Far

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“…However, until recently, the major trend of neuroimaging studies exploring neural correlates of human speech and language control has been to use complex experimental designs to isolate and characterize functional activation patterns and/or networks related to a particular component of this complex behavior. Some of these studies explored the organization of brain networks controlling speech motor preparation and output (Eickhoff et al 2009;Guenther et al 2006;Horwitz and Braun 2004;Papathanassiou et al 2000;Riecker et al 2005;Soros et al 2006), auditory perception (D'Ausilio et al 2011;Rogalsky et al 2011;Schon et al 2010;Turkeltaub and Coslett 2010), semantic and syntactic processing (David et al 2011;Friedrich and Friederici 2009;Prat et al 2007;Schafer and Constable 2009;Seghier and Price 2012;Strelnikov et al 2006). Importantly, recent studies commenced the investigation of the extent of interactions between distinct functional components within the speech-controlling networks.…”

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Speech networks at rest and in action: interactions between functional brain networks controlling speech production

Simonyan

Fuertinger

2015

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Speech production is one of the most complex human behaviors. Although brain activation during speaking has been well investigated, our understanding of interactions between the brain regions and neural networks remains scarce. We combined seed-based interregional correlation analysis with graph theoretical analysis of functional MRI data during the resting state and sentence production in healthy subjects to investigate the interface and topology of functional networks originating from the key brain regions controlling speech, i.e., the laryngeal/orofacial motor cortex, inferior frontal and superior temporal gyri, supplementary motor area, cingulate cortex, putamen, and thalamus. During both resting and speaking, the interactions between these networks were bilaterally distributed and centered on the sensorimotor brain regions. However, speech production preferentially recruited the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and cerebellum into the large-scale network, suggesting the importance of these regions in facilitation of the transition from the resting state to speaking. Furthermore, the cerebellum (lobule VI) was the most prominent region showing functional influences on speech-network integration and segregation. Although networks were bilaterally distributed, interregional connectivity during speaking was stronger in the left vs. right hemisphere, which may have underlined a more homogeneous overlap between the examined networks in the left hemisphere. Among these, the laryngeal motor cortex (LMC) established a core network that fully overlapped with all other speech-related networks, determining the extent of network interactions. Our data demonstrate complex interactions of large-scale brain networks controlling speech production and point to the critical role of the LMC, IPL, and cerebellum in the formation of speech production network.

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“…However, the model suggests that the more an experimental paradigm involves integrative strategies for syntactic processing (integrating it with semantic and prosodic information), the more probable bilateral or RH activations will be. These predictions about the RH's role are supported by some empirical evidence related to syntax-semantics (Just et al, 1996), syntax-morphology Moro et al, 2001) and syntax-prosody (Strelnikov et al, 2006) integration. Though this phenomenon is not explicitly explained by Friederici and Alter's (2004) model of hemispheric interaction, in commenting on the possible predictive role of syntax in continuous speech processing they assume that increased involvement of the RH is seen in some studies because the preceding syntactic structure sometimes allows not only predictions about the incoming word category (e.g., noun versus verb), but, sometimes, also predictions about the prosodic information (e.g., phrase initial versus phrase final intonation).…”

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“…Studies by their group (Friederici, Ruschemeyer, Hahne, & Fiebach, 2003) also showed bilateral involvement of the superior temporal gyrus in semantic analysis during sentence comprehension (this required a higher level of integration from the brain than did semantic analysis during single-word processing). Strelnikov, Vorobyev, Chernigovskaya, and Medvedev (2006) compared the perception of phrases with and without prosody-syntax interaction and observed activation of the RH homologue of Broca's area by phrases having this interaction, as well as an RH prevalence in the correspondent ERP response. A study by St George, Kutas, Martinez, and Sereno (1999) provides a good illustration of the fact that a cognitive strategy used in an experimental paradigm may emphasize the RH's role in speech processing.…”

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Activation–verification in continuous speech processing: Interaction of cognitive strategies as a possible theoretical approach

Strelnikov

2008

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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Prosodic clues to syntactic processing—a PET and ERP study

Cited by 39 publications

References 51 publications

The Cerebellum and Language: The Story So Far

The Cerebellum and Language: The Story So Far

Speech networks at rest and in action: interactions between functional brain networks controlling speech production

Activation–verification in continuous speech processing: Interaction of cognitive strategies as a possible theoretical approach

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