Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca's area: Concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings.

Rapid syntactic pre-activation in Broca's area: Concurrent electrophysiological and haemodynamic recordings.
Brain Res. 2018 Jun 05;:
Authors: Söderström P, Horne M, Mannfolk P, van Westen D, Roll M
Abstract
Listeners are constantly trying to predict what the speaker will say next. We concurrently measured the electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlates of syntactic pre-activation, investigating when and where the brain processes speech melody cues to upcoming word order structure. Pre-activation of syntactic structure was reflected in a left-lateralised pre-activation negativity (PrAN), which was subserved by Broca's area in the left inferior frontal gyrus, as well as the contiguous left anterior insula.
PMID: 29883624 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Brain Research - June 5, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Söderström P, Horne M, Mannfolk P, van Westen D, Roll M Tags: Brain Res Source Type: research