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ARTICLE, Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive

Hierarchical Processing in Spoken Language Comprehension

Matthew H. Davis and Ingrid S. Johnsrude
Journal of Neuroscience 15 April 2003, 23 (8) 3423-3431; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-08-03423.2003
Matthew H. Davis
1Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom CB2 2EF
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-08-03423.2003
PubMed 
12716950
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History 
  • Received September 5, 2002
  • Revision received January 7, 2003
  • Accepted January 7, 2003
  • First published April 15, 2003.
  • Version of record published April 15, 2003.
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  1. Matthew H. Davis and
  2. Ingrid S. Johnsrude
  1. 1Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom CB2 2EF
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    • Received September 5, 2002.
    • Revision received January 7, 2003.
    • Accepted January 7, 2003.
  • This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (UK). We thank Paul Boersma and Chris Darwin for assistance with Praat scripts, Philip Dilks and Iain Turnbull for their help with the pilot study, the staff of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, for their help with data acquisition, Matthew Brett and Ian Nimmo-Smith for advice on image processing and statistical analysis, and Brian Cox for his assistance with figures. We are also grateful to Daniel Bor, John Duncan, Stefan Kohler, William Marslen-Wilson, Dennis Norris, Sophie Scott, and anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions. Example sounds can be found on the Internet at: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/∼matt.davis/jneurosci/.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to Matt Davis, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, UK CB2 2EF. E-mail: matt.davis{at}mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.

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Matthew H. Davis, Ingrid S. Johnsrude
Journal of Neuroscience 15 April 2003, 23 (8) 3423-3431; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-08-03423.2003

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  • speech
  • language
  • auditory cortex
  • hierarchical processing
  • primate
  • human
  • inferior frontal gyrus
  • temporal lobe
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