Abstract
Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of speech processing and language comprehension functions. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG), we investigated the frequency-specific directed interactions between whole-brain regions while the participants processed Chinese sentences using different modality stimuli (i.e., auditory, visual, and audio-visual). The results indicate that low-frequency responses correspond to the process of information flow aggregation in primary sensory cortices in different modalities. Information flow dominated by high-frequency responses exhibited characteristics of bottom-up flow from left posterior temporal to left frontal regions. The network pattern of top-down information flowing out of the left frontal lobe was presented by the joint dominance of low- and high-frequency rhythms. Overall, our results suggest that the brain may be modality-independent when processing higher-order language information.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Article number | 137409 |
Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
Volume | 812 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 24 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Neuroscience
Keywords
- Audio-visual integration
- Brain network
- EEG
- Granger causality
- Neural oscillations