Neuronal mechanism of speech hearing: An fMRI study

Hojung Kang, Jong Hwan Lee

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    Abstract

    It is well known that bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) specialize in speech perception. However, there is no study to explicitly represent the interaction between the bilateral STG depending on hearing condition (i.e. binaural or monaural hearing) based on neuroimaging findings. To this end, speech sentences containing numerical sound(s) were provided in binaural, monaural left and monaural right hearing condition. Participants were asked to correctly identify the presented numerical sound and speech hearing performance was calculated based on the number of correctly identified sounds. From the results, neuronal activations of the right STG were shown significantly different levels of neuronal activations across the three hearing conditions. In addition, the neuronal networks that are functionally connected with this right STG and associated with the speech hearing were iteratively identified in the bilateral STG. The reported findings support the importance of the right STG toward the enhancement of the speech hearing performance.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 20th International Conference, ICONIP 2013, Proceedings
    Pages184-190
    Number of pages7
    EditionPART 1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Event20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 2013 Nov 32013 Nov 7

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    NumberPART 1
    Volume8226 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityDaegu
    Period13/11/313/11/7

    Keywords

    • Binaural hearing
    • Functional connectivity
    • Functional magnetic resonance imaging
    • Hearing performance
    • Monaural hearing
    • Speech perception
    • Superior temporal gyrus

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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