Coupled neural systems underlie the production and comprehension of naturalistic narrative speech.

ABSTRACT: Neuroimaging studies of language have typically focused on either production or comprehension of single speech utterances such as syllables, words, or sentences. In this study we used a new approach to functional MRI acquisition and analysis to characterize the neural responses during production and comprehension of complex real-life speech. First, using a time-warp based intrasubject correlation method, we identified all areas that are reliably activated in the brains of speakers telling a 15-min-long narrative. Next, we identified areas that are reliably activated in the brains of listeners as they comprehended that same narrative. This allowed us to identify networks of brain regions specific to production and comprehension, as well as those that are shared between the two processes. Th

SUBMITTER: Silbert LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4217461 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature