We welcome opinions about the role of Broca’s area in higher-order cognition. Nevertheless, it was with somewhat of a surprise that we read the recent contribution by Grodzinsky and Santi [1] on this topic. Although they write that ‘Broca’s region might well be multifunctional’ [1], Grodzinsky and Santi nevertheless conclude that the main role of Broca’s region (more specifically Brodmann’s are...

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 ...

Controlled semantic retrieval to words elicits co-activation of inferior frontal (IFG) and left posterior temporal cortex (pMTG), but research has not yet established (i) the distinct contributions of these regions or (ii) whether the same processes are recruited for non-verbal stimuli. Words have relatively flexible meanings - as a consequence, identifying the context that links two specific w...

This review scrutinizes several findings on human hierarchical processing within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in diverse cognitive domains. Converging evidence from previous studies has shown that the PFC, specifically, BA44, may function as the essential region for hierarchical processing across the domains. In language fMRI studies, BA 44 was significantly activated for the hierarchical proces...