Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Reductions in prefrontal activation predict off-topic utterances during speech production

  • Paul Hoffman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08519-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The ability to speak coherently is essential for effective communication, but little is known about the neural systems that support coherence. Here, the authors show that activity in two prefrontal cortex regions, BA10 and BA45, predicts the level of coherence in the speech of healthy older adults.