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Vocal gestures and auditory objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Josef P. Rauschecker*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC20057-1460

Abstract:

Recent studies in human and nonhuman primates demonstrate that auditory objects, including speech sounds, are identified in anterior superior temporal cortex projecting directly to inferior frontal regions and not along a posterior pathway, as classically assumed. By contrast, the role of posterior temporal regions in speech and language remains largely unexplained, although a concept of vocal gestures may be helpful.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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