going to say, a team of neuroscientists has found. The study, which appears in the Journal of Neuroscience, provides fresh evidence on the brain’s role in communication.
The research is in Journal of Neuroscience. (full open access)
Research: “On the Same Wavelength: Predictable Language Enhances Speaker–Listener Brain-to-Brain Synchrony in Posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus” by Suzanne Dikker, Lauren J. Silbert, Uri Hasson, and Jason D. Zevin in Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3796-13.2014
Image: When listeners can predict what a speaker is going to say, the authors suggest, their brains take advantage of this by sending a signal to their auditory cortex that it can expect sound patterns corresponding to predicted words (e.g., “green” while hearing “grass is…”). The image shows a coronal section of a human brain. BA41(red) and BA42(green) are primary auditory cortex. BA22(yellow) is Brodmann area 22, HF(blue) is hippocampal formation and pSTG is posterior part of superior temporal gyrus. This image is for illustrative purposes and is not connected to the research. Credit Talbot et al./PLOS ONE.
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