Processing of an Audiobook in the Human Brain Is Shaped by Cultural Family Background.

ABSTRACT: Perception of the same narrative can vary between individuals depending on a listener's previous experiences. We studied whether and how cultural family background may shape the processing of an audiobook in the human brain. During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 48 healthy volunteers from two different cultural family backgrounds listened to an audiobook depicting the intercultural social life of young adults with the respective cultural backgrounds. Shared cultural family background increased inter-subject correlation of hemodynamic activity in the left-hemispheric Heschl's gyrus, insula, superior temporal gyrus, lingual gyrus and middle temporal gyrus, in the right-hemispheric lateral occipital and posterior cingulate cortices as well as in the bilateral middle temporal gy

SUBMITTER: Hakonen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9139798 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature