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Helen Mengxuan Wu¹, Anthony Gianni Vaccaro¹, Jonas T Kaplan¹

¹Brain and Creativity Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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Angular gyrus Auditory story listening Default mode network Event segmentation Hidden Markov models Narrative processing Naturalistic fMRI

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Neuroimaging
Psychology

Background:

Event segmentation theory explains how humans process continuous information into discrete events.
Narratives serve as valuable models for understanding event perception and sense-making.
Research on audiovisual narrative segmentation is common, but auditory-only narrative parsing remains understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how the brain parses auditory-only narratives.
To compare neural event structures with behavioral event structures derived from audio-only and visual-only modalities.
To identify brain regions involved in processing continuous auditory narratives.

Main Methods:

fMRI scans were used while participants listened to two audio-only stories.
Behavioral participants segmented the same stories via transcript (visual-only) or audio-only recording.
Neural activity and behavioral annotations were analyzed to compare event structures.

Main Results:

The angular gyrus showed neural event structures that significantly matched behavioral structures across both modalities and stories.
Activity in the angular gyrus correlated with parsing continuous narratives, especially those with ambiguous transitions.
No significant match was found in other regions of interest (posterior cingulate cortex, early auditory cortex, early visual cortex).

Conclusions:

The angular gyrus plays a crucial role in the neural processing of continuous narrative segmentation.
This region's activity is linked to understanding narrative structure rather than sensory input changes.
Findings highlight the angular gyrus's importance in making sense of auditory-only narratives.