al mechanisms of prosodic integration : evidence from ed speech

al Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and long ch stimuli, we addressed the question of neuronal ed in prosodic integration by comparing (1) differences y when hearing connected speech stimuli with high and prosodic expression; (2) differences in brain activity in otic listening conditions (normal speech delivery to both and low-pass-filtered speech delivery to both ears, i.e., ects of high and low degrees of prosodic information in conditions. Twelve right-handed French men listened e stimuli. Each stimulus induced a specific cerebral flat one weakening activations, which were mainly bilateral STG for both listening conditions. High sodic information were found to trigger right specific wider neuronal network involved in speech integration BA21–22 and BA39–40) than low degrees of prosodic d. More precisely, the right BA44 was found to be olved in the process of F0 modulations, which are the orrelate of prosody. Not only do the results achieved in eriment using 30-s-long connected speech stimuli show t of a bilateral neuronal network but they also strongly h degrees of prosodic information elicit activations in a l network involved in speech perception than low odic information do. r Inc. All rights reserved.