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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to investigate the neural basis of the comprehension of speech in unmodulated noise ("energetic" masking, dominated by effects at the auditory periphery), and when presented with another speaker ("informational" masking, dominated by more central effects). Each type of signal was presented at four different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) (+3, 0, -3, -6 dB for the speech-in-speech, +6, +3, 0, -3 dB for the speech-in-noise), with listeners instructed to listen for meaning to the target speaker. Consistent with behavioral studies, there was SNR-dependent activation associated with the comprehension of speech in noise, with no SNR-dependent activity for the comprehension of speech-in-speech (at low or negative SNRs). There was, in addition, activation in bilateral superior temporal gyri which was associated with the informational masking condition. The extent to which this activation of classical "speech" areas of the temporal lobes might delineate the neural basis of the informational masking is considered, as is the relationship of these findings to the interfering effects of unattended speech and sound on more explicit working memory tasks. This study is a novel demonstration of candidate neural systems involved in the perception of speech in noisy environments, and of the processing of multiple speakers in the dorso-lateral temporal lobes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0001-4966
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
115
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
813-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-12-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Acoustic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Loudness Perception, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Memory, Short-Term, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Nerve Net, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Parietal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Perceptual Masking, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Pitch Discrimination, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Temporal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:15000192-Tomography, Emission-Computed
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
A positron emission tomography study of the neural basis of informational and energetic masking effects in speech perception.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, Untited Kingdom. sophie.scott@ucl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't