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Functional Anatomy of Speech Perception and Speech Production: Psycholinguistic Implications

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This paper presents evidence for a new model of the functional anatomy of speech/language (Hickok & Poeppel, 2000) which has, at its core, three central claims: (1) Neural systems supporting the perception of sublexical aspects of speech are essentially bilaterally organized in posterior superior temporal lobe regions; (2) neural systems supporting the production of phonemic aspects of speech comprise a network of predominately left hemisphere systems which includes not only frontal regions, but also superior temporal lobe regions; and (3) the neural systems supporting speech perception and production partially overlap in left superior temporal lobe. This model, which postulates nonidentical but partially overlapping systems involved in the perception and production of speech, explains why psycho- and neurolinguistic evidence is mixed regarding the question of whether input and output phonological systems involve a common network or distinct networks.

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Hickok, G. Functional Anatomy of Speech Perception and Speech Production: Psycholinguistic Implications. J Psycholinguist Res 30, 225–235 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010486816667

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