Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Converging language streams in the human temporal lobe.

Galina Spitsyna1, Jane E Warren, Sophie K Scott

  • 1University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London NW3 2PF, United Kingdom.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
|July 14, 2006
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

The neural basis of laughter.

Trends in neurosciences·2026
Same author

Peripheral inflammation is associated with reduced influx of TSPO PET tracers into the brain: insights from a non-invasive mapping methodology.

Brain, behavior, and immunity·2026
Same author

Network-based disease fingerprinting with neuroinflammation PET imaging.

Journal of neuroinflammation·2026
Same author

Normative modeling of choroid plexus volume across the adult lifespan: validation in multiple sclerosis and depression.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference·2025
Same author

Advancing Generalisable Neural Network-Based PET Quantification: A Multicenter [<sup>11</sup>C]PBR28 study.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference·2025
Same author

Immune alterations in schizophrenia and the effects of a therapeutic antibody: a neuroimaging study.

Brain : a journal of neurology·2025
Same journal

Does stimulus preceding negativity reflect predictions in a somatosensory roving paradigm?

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Temporal Dynamics of EEG Reflect Continuous Error Correction During Force Control.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Frontoparietal Hub Connectivity Integrates Information from Multiple Sources.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Mapping the Heart-Brain Continuum beyond Heart Failure: Why Neurology Matters.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Emergence of behavioral tinnitus in gerbils is associated with reduced spontaneous rates in single auditory nerve fibers.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Decoding the neural stages from action and object recognition to mentalizing.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
See all related articles

Spoken and written language processing converge in the brain. This study found common activation in left anterior temporal and temporo-occipito-parietal regions for both language comprehension pathways.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Language processing pathways for spoken and written words are understood to converge for meaning.
  • Conflicting evidence exists regarding the specific brain regions involved in this language comprehension convergence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reconcile conflicting findings on the cortical localization of verbal comprehension.
  • To identify common brain regions activated during both spoken and written language comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • Functional neuroimaging in healthy subjects.
  • Presentation of spoken and written narratives.
  • Utilized multiple baselines to isolate language comprehension networks.

Main Results:

Related Experiment Videos

  • Common brain activation observed in inferior and lateral left anterior temporal cortex.
  • Shared activation also found at the junction of temporal, occipital, and parietal cortex.
  • Demonstrated convergence in both anterior and posterior heteromodal regions of the left temporal lobe.

Conclusions:

  • Verbal comprehension involves unimodal processing streams that converge in distinct left temporal lobe regions.
  • Findings support a distributed network model for language comprehension, integrating anterior and posterior cortical areas.