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Linguistic categories and speech perception

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Brain activation for category boundaries:<br />

Ganong effect<br />

• STG is sensitive to change<br />

in category boundary due<br />

to lexical status:<br />

gift-kift vs. giss-kiss<br />

• Conclusion: lexical<br />

knowledge influences<br />

basic phonetic<br />

categorization processes<br />

Lateral view of left hemisphere:<br />

differential activation for the same<br />

physical stimulus dependent on<br />

whether it is in a word or a non-word<br />

Myers & Blumstein (2007) Cerebral Cortex

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