Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-12-2008
Journal
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Volume
363
Issue
1493
First Page
1023
Last Page
1035
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2157
Abstract
In this paper, we describe domain-general auditory processes that we believe are prerequisite to the linguistic analysis of speech. We discuss biological evidence for these processes and how they might relate to processes that are specific to human speech and language. We begin with a brief review of (i) the anatomy of the auditory system and (ii) the essential properties of speech sounds. Section 4 describes the general auditory mechanisms that we believe are applied to all communication sounds, and how functional neuroimaging is being used to map the brain networks associated with domain-general auditory processing. Section 5 discusses recent neuroimaging studies that explore where such general processes give way to those that are specific to human speech and language.
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