Yury Shtyrov

TL;DR: Sound-related somatotopic activation in precentral gyrus shows that, during speech perception, specific motor circuits are recruited that reflect phonetic distinctive features of the speech sounds encountered, thus providing direct neuroimaging support for specific links between the phonological mechanisms for speech perception and production.

TL;DR: Results show that meaning access in action word recognition is an early automatic process reflected by spatiotemporal signatures of word-evoked activity, which predicts fast spreading of neuronal activity from language areas to specific sensorimotor areas when action words semantically related to different parts of the body are being perceived.

TL;DR: Analysis of spatio-temporal patterns of generator activations underlying the MMN to speech may be an important tool for investigating the brain dynamics of spoken language processing and the activated distributed cortical circuits acting at long-term memory traces.

TL;DR: These results provide the first demonstration of the presence of memory traces for individual spoken words in the human brain, using whole-head magnetoencephalography.

TL;DR: A mechanistic model grounded in cortical nerve cell circuits that builds upon neuroanatomical and neurophysiological knowledge and explains both near-simultaneous activations and fine-grained delays is offered.