title: Silent lipreading and covert speech production suppress processing of non-linguistic sounds in auditory cortex.
abstract: Previous studies have suggested that speech motor system mediates suppression by silent lipreading of electromagnetic auditory cortex responses to pure tones at about 100 ms from sound onset. We used sparse sampling functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 3 Tesla to map auditory-cortex foci of suppressant effects during silent lipreading and covert self-production. Streams of video clips were presented simultaneously with 1/3 octave noise bursts centered at 250 Hz (low frequency, LF) or 2000 Hz (mid-frequency, MF), or during no auditory stimulation. In different conditions, the subjects were a) to press a button whenever they lipread the face articulate the same consecutive Finnish vowels /a/, /i/, /o/, and /y/, b) covertly selfproducing vowels while viewing still face image, or c) to press a button whenever a circle pictured on top of the lips expanded into oval shape of the same orientation twice in a row. The regions of interest (ROIs) within the superior temporal lobes of each hemisphere were defined by contrasting MF and LF stimulation against silence. Contrasting the nonlinguistic (i.e., expanding circle)vs.linguistic (i.e., lipreading and covert self-production) conditions within these ROIs showed significant suppression of hemodynamic activity to MF sounds in the linguistic condition in left hemisphere first transverse sulcus (FTS) and right hemisphere superior temporal gyrus (STG) lateral to Heschl's sulcus (HS). These findings suggest that the speech motor system mediates suppression of auditory-cortex processing of non-linguistic sounds during silent lipreading and covert self-production in left hemisphere FST and right hemisphere STG lateral to HS.
authors: Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science (BECS), Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland ; Department of Radiology, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors: Marja H
authors: MH
authors: Balk
authors: Heini
authors: H
authors: Kari
authors: Jaakko
authors: J
authors: Kauramäki
authors: Jyrki
authors: J
authors: Ahveninen
authors: Mikko
authors: M
authors: Sams
authors: Taina
authors: T
authors: Autti
authors: Iiro P
authors: IP
authors: Jääskeläinen
keywords: auditory cortex; covert speech production; functional magnetic resonance imaging; lipreading; speech motor theory; tonotopy
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