Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

Liu, Li; Peng, Danling; Ding, Guiguang; Zhou, Jin; Zhang, Lei; Li, Ké; Chen, Chuansheng

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.046

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“…In a Chinese character naming task, native Mandarin speakers recruited the right inferior frontal gyrus more strongly in the production of characters with different tones than the production of characters with different vowels (Liu et al, 2006). Moreover, the engagement of the right hemisphere in early attention to pitch information in Mandarin appears to be a shared mechanism irrespective of language experience.…”

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White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success

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Garel

et al. 2015

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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a b s t r a c tSecond language learning becomes increasingly difficult with age, but some adults learn more successfully than others. We examined whether inter-subject variability in the microstructure of white matter pathways, as measured by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), would predict native English speakers' outcomes in learning Mandarin Chinese. Twenty-one adults were scanned before participating in an intensive 4-week Mandarin course. At the end of the Mandarin course, participants completed a final exam that assessed their skills in both spoken and written Mandarin. Individual participants' white-matter tracts were reconstructed from their native DTI data and related to final-exam performance. Superior language learning was correlated with DTI measures in the right hemisphere, but not in the left hemisphere. In particular, greater initial fractional anisotropy (FA) in both the right superior longitudinal fasciculus (parietal bundle) and the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus was associated with more successful Mandarin learning. The relation between white-matter structure in the right hemisphere of native English speakers and successful initial language learning may reflect the tonal and visuo-spatial properties, respectively, of spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.

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Section: Right-hemisphere Contribution To Mandarin Learningmentioning

confidence: 92%

White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success

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Garel

et al. 2015

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…Because both the verbal responses and the response time data could not be reliably obtained in the scanner due to its high level of noise, they were estimated with the behavioral data collected immediately before the scanning. The same procedure was successfully used in a previous study (Liu et al, 2006). During behavioral data collection, a fixation was presented for 150 msec, followed by a picture.…”

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Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers

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Chen

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“…However, there is also a considerable amount of research which has associated the right IFG with specific acoustic perception (i.e., pitch processing). Activation in the right IFG has been found during pitch processing in both nonlinguistic (Liu et al, 2006;Hsieh et al, 2001;Humphries, Willard, Buchsbaum, & Hickok, 2001) and speech contexts (Wildgruber, Ackermann, Kreifelts, & Ethofer, 2006;Gandour et al, 2004;Meyer et al, 2002). Pitch processing plays a crucial role in speech processing of tonal languages, that is, languages where the pitch of a word carries a specific semantic content (Gandour et al, 2003).…”

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The Neural Correlate of Speech Rhythm as Evidenced by Metrical Speech Processing

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Zaehle

Jäncke

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The present study investigates the neural correlates of rhythm processing in speech perception. German pseudosentences spoken with an exaggerated (isochronous) or a conversational (nonisochronous) rhythm were compared in an auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment. The subjects had to perform either a rhythm task (explicit rhythm processing) or a prosody task (implicit rhythm processing). The study revealed bilateral activation in the supplementary motor area (SMA), extending into the cingulate gyrus, and in the insulae, extending into the right basal ganglia (neostriatum), as well as activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) related to the performance of the rhythm task. A direct contrast between isochronous and nonisochronous sentences revealed differences in lateralization of activation for isochronous processing as a function of the explicit and implicit tasks. Explicit processing revealed activation in the right posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), the right supramarginal gyrus, and the right parietal operculum. Implicit processing showed activation in the left supramarginal gyrus, the left pSTG, and the left parietal operculum. The present results indicate a function of the SMA and the insula beyond motor timing and speak for a role of these brain areas in the perception of acoustically temporal intervals. Secondly, the data speak for a specific task-related function of the right IFG in the processing of accent patterns. Finally, the data sustain the assumption that the right secondary auditory cortex is involved in the explicit perception of auditory suprasegmental cues and, moreover, that activity in the right secondary auditory cortex can be modulated by top-down processing mechanisms. Abstract & The present study investigates the neural correlates of rhythm processing in speech perception. German pseudosentences spoken with an exaggerated (isochronous) or a conversational (nonisochronous) rhythm were compared in an auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment. The subjects had to perform either a rhythm task (explicit rhythm processing) or a prosody task (implicit rhythm processing). The study revealed bilateral activation in the supplementary motor area (SMA), extending into the cingulate gyrus, and in the insulae, extending into the right basal ganglia (neostriatum), as well as activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) related to the performance of the rhythm task. A direct contrast between isochronous and nonisochronous sentences revealed differences in lateralization of activation for isochronous processing as a function of the explicit and implicit tasks. Explicit processing revealed activation in the right posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), the right supramarginal gyrus, and the right parietal operculum. Implicit processing showed activation in the left supramarginal gyrus, the left pSTG, and the left parietal operculum. The present results indicate a function of the SMA and the insula beyond motor timing and speak for a role of ...

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Dissociation in the neural basis underlying Chinese tone and vowel production

Cited by 61 publications

References 42 publications

White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success

White-matter structure in the right hemisphere predicts Mandarin Chinese learning success

Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers

The Neural Correlate of Speech Rhythm as Evidenced by Metrical Speech Processing

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