Speech and music recruit frequency-specific distributed and overlapping cortical networks.

ABSTRACT: To what extent does speech and music processing rely on domain-specific and domain-general neural networks? Using whole-brain intracranial EEG recordings in 18 epilepsy patients listening to natural, continuous speech or music, we investigated the presence of frequency-specific and network-level brain activity. We combined it with a statistical approach in which a clear operational distinction is made between shared, preferred, and domain-selective neural responses. We show that the majority of focal and network-level neural activity is shared between speech and music processing. Our data also reveal an absence of anatomical regional selectivity. Instead, domain-selective neural responses are restricted to distributed and frequency-specific coherent oscillations, typic

SUBMITTER: Te Rietmolen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11262799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature