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Cortical thickness of planum temporale and pars opercularis in native language tone processing

Schremm, Andrea LU ; Novén, Mikael LU ; Horne, Merle LU orcid ; Söderström, Pelle LU ; van Westen, Danielle LU orcid and Roll, Mikael LU (2018) In Brain and Language 176. p.42-47
Abstract
The present study investigated the relationship between linguistic tone processing and cortical thickness of bilateral planum temporale (PT) and pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFGpo). Swedish tones on word stems function as cues to upcoming endings. Correlating structural brain imaging data with participants’ response time patterns for suffixes, we found that thicker cortex in the left PT was associated with greater reliance on tones to anticipate upcoming inflections on real words. On inflected pseudoword stems, however, the cortical thickness of left IFGpo was associated with tone-suffix processing. Thus cortical thickness of the left PT might play a role in processing tones as part of stored representations for familiar... (More)
The present study investigated the relationship between linguistic tone processing and cortical thickness of bilateral planum temporale (PT) and pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFGpo). Swedish tones on word stems function as cues to upcoming endings. Correlating structural brain imaging data with participants’ response time patterns for suffixes, we found that thicker cortex in the left PT was associated with greater reliance on tones to anticipate upcoming inflections on real words. On inflected pseudoword stems, however, the cortical thickness of left IFGpo was associated with tone-suffix processing. Thus cortical thickness of the left PT might play a role in processing tones as part of stored representations for familiar speech segments, most likely when inflected forms are accessed as whole words. In the absence of stored representations, listeners might need to rely on morphosyntactic rules specifying tone-suffix associations, potentially facilitated by greater cortical thickness of left IFGpo. (Less)
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Brain and Language
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42 - 47
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Elsevier
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1090-2155
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10.1016/j.bandl.2017.12.001
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Tone-Grammar Interaction in the Human Brain: Mechanisms and Applications
The language melody game (LMG): Learning Swedish word accents using IT and digital media
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