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Pars Opercularis Underlies Efferent Predictions and Successful Auditory Feedback Processing in Speech: Evidence From Left-Hemisphere Stroke.
Beach, Sara D; Tang, Ding-Lan; Kiran, Swathi; Niziolek, Caroline A.
Affiliation
  • Beach SD; Waisman Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Tang DL; Waisman Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Kiran S; Academic Unit of Human Communication, Development, and Information Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China.
  • Niziolek CA; Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University.
Neurobiol Lang (Camb) ; 5(2): 454-483, 2024.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38911464
ABSTRACT
Hearing one's own speech allows for acoustic self-monitoring in real time. Left-hemisphere motor planning regions are thought to give rise to efferent predictions that can be compared to true feedback in sensory cortices, resulting in neural suppression commensurate with the degree of overlap between predicted and actual sensations. Sensory prediction errors thus serve as a possible mechanism of detection of deviant speech sounds, which can then feed back into corrective action, allowing for online control of speech acoustics. The goal of this study was to assess the integrity of this detection-correction circuit in persons with aphasia (PWA) whose left-hemisphere lesions may limit their ability to control variability in speech output. We recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) while 15 PWA and age-matched controls spoke monosyllabic words and listened to playback of their utterances. From this, we measured speaking-induced suppression of the M100 neural response and related it to lesion profiles and speech behavior. Both speaking-induced suppression and cortical sensitivity to deviance were preserved at the group level in PWA. PWA with more spared tissue in pars opercularis had greater left-hemisphere neural suppression and greater behavioral correction of acoustically deviant pronunciations, whereas sparing of superior temporal gyrus was not related to neural suppression or acoustic behavior. In turn, PWA who made greater corrections had fewer overt speech errors in the MEG task. Thus, the motor planning regions that generate the efferent prediction are integral to performing corrections when that prediction is violated.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Neurobiol Lang (Camb) Year: 2024 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Neurobiol Lang (Camb) Year: 2024 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States