Selective tuning of cortical sound‐feature processing by language experience
Publication date
2006-05-16
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Organisational unit
Universität Leipzig, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie
Publisher
Blackwell
Series or journal
European Journal of Neuroscience
ISSN
Periodical volume
23
Periodical issue
9
First page
2538
Last page
2541
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
English
Keyword
Auditory cognition
Automatic processing
Human
Abstract
In 'quantity‐languages', such as Japanese or Finnish, sound duration is linguistically relevant. We showed that quantity‐language speakers were superior to speakers of a non‐quantity language in discriminating the duration of even non‐speech sounds. In contrast, there was no group difference in the discrimination of sound frequency. This result, obtained both by behavioural and neural indices at attentive and automatic levels of processing, indicates precise feature‐specific tuning of the auditory‐cortex functions by the mother tongue.
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