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      Language repetition and short-term memory: an integrative framework

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      Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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      language, repetition, short-term memory, working memory, serial order, attention

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          Short-term maintenance of verbal information is a core factor of language repetition, especially when reproducing multiple or unfamiliar stimuli. Many models of language processing locate the verbal short-term maintenance function in the left posterior superior temporo-parietal area and its connections with the inferior frontal gyrus. However, research in the field of short-term memory has implicated bilateral fronto-parietal networks, involved in attention and serial order processing, as being critical for the maintenance and reproduction of verbal sequences. We present here an integrative framework aimed at bridging research in the language processing and short-term memory fields. This framework considers verbal short-term maintenance as an emergent function resulting from synchronized and integrated activation in dorsal and ventral language processing networks as well as fronto-parietal attention and serial order processing networks. To-be-maintained item representations are temporarily activated in the dorsal and ventral language processing networks, novel phoneme and word serial order information is proposed to be maintained via a right fronto-parietal serial order processing network, and activation in these different networks is proposed to be coordinated and maintained via a left fronto-parietal attention processing network. This framework provides new perspectives for our understanding of information maintenance at the non-word-, word- and sentence-level as well as of verbal maintenance deficits in case of brain injury.

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              Computational neuroanatomy of speech production.

              Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions, psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the resulting chasm between these approaches seems to reflect a level of analysis difference: whereas motor control is concerned with lower-level articulatory control, psycholinguistics focuses on higher-level linguistic processing. However, closer examination of both approaches reveals a substantial convergence of ideas. The goal of this article is to integrate psycholinguistic and motor control approaches to speech production. The result of this synthesis is a neuroanatomically grounded, hierarchical state feedback control model of speech production.
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                Journal
                Front Hum Neurosci
                Front Hum Neurosci
                Front. Hum. Neurosci.
                Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1662-5161
                03 June 2013
                12 July 2013
                2013
                : 7
                : 357
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Psychology - Cognition and Behavior, Université de Liège Liège, Belgium
                [2] 2Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS Brussels, Belgium
                Author notes

                Edited by: Marcelo L. Berthier, University of Malaga, Spain

                Reviewed by: Paul Hoffman, University of Manchester, UK; Beth Jefferies, University of York, UK

                *Correspondence: Steve Majerus, Department of Psychology - Cognition and Behavior, Université de Liège, Boulevard du Rectorat, B33, 4000 Liège, Belgium e-mail: smajerus@ 123456ulg.ac.be
                Article
                10.3389/fnhum.2013.00357
                3709421
                23874280
                bb68fb4a-17c5-454d-9fdb-ef56dcde09a3
                Copyright © 2013 Majerus.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.

                History
                : 26 April 2013
                : 21 June 2013
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 160, Pages: 16, Words: 15240
                Categories
                Neuroscience
                Review Article

                Neurosciences
                language,repetition,short-term memory,working memory,serial order,attention
                Neurosciences
                language, repetition, short-term memory, working memory, serial order, attention

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