ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2018
Task-General and Acoustic-Invariant Neural Representation of Speech Categories in the Human Brain.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed.
- A multimodal neuroimaging dataset for investigating speech perceptual normalization.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Speaking in Tones: The role of lexical tones in Chinese-speaking Primary Progressive Aphasia.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Individual differences in working memory impact the trajectory of non-native speech category learning.PloS one · 2024Article
- Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Modulates Performance but Not Pupil Size During Nonnative Speech Category Learning.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Distribution-dependent representations in auditory category learning and generalization.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The nature of non-native speech sound representations.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Review
- The role of left angular gyrus in the representation of linguistic composition relations.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Speech Computations of the Human Superior Temporal Gyrus.Annual review of psychology · 2022Review
- Children's Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neural dynamics underlying the acquisition of distinct auditory category structures.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Neural Fingerprints Underlying Individual Language Learning Profiles.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Auditory cortex is susceptible to lexical influence as revealed by informational vs. energetic masking of speech categorization.Brain research · 2021Article
- Neural Decoding Reveals Concurrent Phonemic and Subphonemic Representations of Speech Across Tasks.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Lexical Influences on Categorical Speech Perception Are Driven by a Temporoparietal Circuit.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Data-driven machine learning models for decoding speech categorization from evoked brain responses.Journal of neural engineering · 2021Article
- Speech categorization is better described by induced rather than evoked neural activity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Human cortical encoding of pitch in tonal and non-tonal languages.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Emerging native-similar neural representations underlie non-native speech category learning success.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Intonation processing increases task-specific fronto-temporal connectivity in tonal language speakers.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- A distributed dynamic brain network mediates linguistic tone representation and categorization.NeuroImage · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
A significant neural challenge in speech perception includes extracting discrete phonetic categories from continuous and multidimensional signals despite varying task demands and surface-acoustic variability. While neural representations of speech categories have been previously identified in frontal and posterior temporal-parietal regions, the task dependency and dimensional specificity of these neural representations are still unclear. Here, we asked native Mandarin participants to listen to speech syllables carrying 4 distinct lexical tone categories across passive listening, repetition, and categorization tasks while they underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used searchlight classification and representational similarity analysis (RSA) to identify the dimensional structure underlying neural representation across tasks and surface-acoustic properties. Searchlight classification analyses revealed significant "cross-task" lexical tone decoding within the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) and left inferior parietal lobule (LIPL). RSA revealed that the LIPL and LSTG, in contrast to the RSTG, relate to 2 critical dimensions (pitch height, pitch direction) underlying tone perception. Outside this core representational network, we found greater activation in the inferior frontal and parietal regions for stimuli that are more perceptually similar during tone categorization. Our findings reveal the specific characteristics of fronto-tempo-parietal regions that support speech representation and categorization processing.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.