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Title: | Spontaneous synchronization to speech reveals neural mechanisms facilitating language learning |
Author: | Assaneo, M. Florencia Ripollés, Pablo Orpella, Joan Lin, Wy Ming Diego Balaguer, Ruth de Poeppell, David |
Keywords: | Cervell Adquisició del llenguatge Parla Fisiologia Brain Language acquisition Speech Physiology |
Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2019 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Abstract: | We introduce a deceptively simple behavioral task that robustly identifies two qualitatively different groups within the general population. When presented with an isochronous train of random syllables, some listeners are compelled to align their own concurrent syllable production with the perceived rate, whereas others remain impervious to the external rhythm. Using both neurophysiological and structural imaging approaches, we show group differences with clear consequences for speech processing and language learning. When listening passively to speech, high synchronizers show increased brain-to-stimulus synchronization over frontal areas, and this localized pattern correlates with precise microstructural differences in the white matter pathways connecting frontal to auditory regions. Finally, the data expose a mechanism that underpins performance on an ecologically relevant word-learning task. We suggest that this task will help to better understand and characterize individual performance in speech processing and language learning. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0353-z |
It is part of: | Nature Neuroscience, 2019, vol. 22, num. 4, p. 627-632 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/171680 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0353-z |
ISSN: | 1097-6256 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)) |
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