From speech to thought: the neuronal basis of cognitive units in non-experimental, real-life communication investigated using ECoG.

ABSTRACT: Exchange of thoughts by means of expressive speech is fundamental to human communication. However, the neuronal basis of real-life communication in general, and of verbal exchange of ideas in particular, has rarely been studied until now. Here, our aim was to establish an approach for exploring the neuronal processes related to cognitive "idea" units (IUs) in conditions of non-experimental speech production. We investigated whether such units corresponding to single, coherent chunks of speech with syntactically-defined borders, are useful to unravel the neuronal mechanisms underlying real-world human cognition. To this aim, we employed simultaneous electrocorticography (ECoG) and video recordings obtained in pre-neurosurgical diagnostics of epilepsy patients. We transcribed non-experimenta

SUBMITTER: Derix J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4056309 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature