Rapid and automatic speech-specific learning mechanism in human neocortex

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 118; pp. 282 - 291
• Main Authors: Kimppa, Lilli, Kujala, Teija, Leminen, Alina, Vainio, Martti, Shtyrov, Yury
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2015; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Attention - physiology; Brain; Communication; Electroencephalography; Event-related potentials; Female; Frontal Lobe - physiology; Humans; Language learning; Learning - physiology; Listening; Male; Memory; Mental Recall - physiology; Neocortex - physiology; Plasticity; Recall; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Speech; Speech Perception - physiology; Studies; Temporal Lobe - physiology; Young Adult; Event-related potentials; Speech; Electroencephalography; Language learning; Plasticity

A unique feature of human communication system is our ability to rapidly acquire new words and build large vocabularies. However, its neurobiological foundations remain largely unknown. In an electrophysiological study optimally designed to probe this rapid formation of new word memory circuits, we...