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Zhaowei Liu¹, Su Shu¹, Lingxi Lu²

¹Beijing City Key Lab for Medical Physics and Engineering, Institution of Heavy Ion Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China; Center for MRI Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China; McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.

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Predictive brain mechanisms enable efficient speech processing. This study reveals the causal dynamics of violated expectations in the frontotemporal network, highlighting the ventral pathway

Keywords:

Chinese Connectivity Expectation Magnetoencephalography Speech

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Background:

Speech processing relies on predictive mechanisms and involves a frontotemporal network.
The precise causal dynamics of predictive sound-to-meaning mapping remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the spatiotemporal causal dynamics of predictive brain mechanisms during speech processing.
To map the neural network involved in processing violated expectations in Mandarin Chinese speech.

Main Methods:

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to record brain activity.
A semantic anomaly paradigm with expected, unexpected, and time-reversed speech was employed.
Source localization identified brain regions and causal dynamics.

Main Results:

Violated expectations were localized in frontotemporal regions, sensorimotor cortex, and supramarginal gyrus starting at 250 ms.
Causal cortical dynamics were described within the dual stream model framework.
Key pathways included the ventral pathway, left inferior frontal gyrus modulation, and cross-stream integration.

Conclusions:

The study elucidates the causal network underlying predictive speech processing and violated expectations.
Ventral pathway connections, top-down modulation, and cross-stream integration are crucial for processing unexpected speech.
These findings advance our understanding of the neural basis of real-time language comprehension.