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. 2001 Mar 7;268(1466):451-7.
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0393.

Dispersed activation in the left temporal cortex for speech-reading in congenitally deaf people

M MacSweeney  1 , R Campbell, G A Calvert, P K McGuire, A S David, J Suckling, C Andrew, B Woll, M J Brammer
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Dispersed activation in the left temporal cortex for speech-reading in congenitally deaf people

M MacSweeney et al. Proc Biol Sci. .

Abstract

Does the lateral temporal cortex require acoustic exposure in order to become specialized for speech processing? Six hearing participants and six congenitally deaf participants, all with spoken English as their first langugage, were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a simple speech-reading task. Focal activation of the left lateral temporal cortex was significantly reduced in the deaf group compared with the hearing group. Activation within this region was present in individual deaf participants, but varied in location from person to person. Early acoustic experience may be required for regions within the left temporal cortex in order to develop into a coherent network with subareas devoted to specific speech analysis functions.

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