Neural specializations for speech and pitch: moving beyond the dichotomies
Robert J. Zatorre, Jackson T. Gandour · 2009
Abstract The idea that speech processing relies on unique, encapsulated, domain-specific mechanisms has been around for some time. Another well-known idea, often espoused as being in opposition to the first proposal, is that processing of speech sounds entails general-purpose neural mechanisms sensitive to the acoustic features that are present in speech. Here, we suggest that these dichotomous views need not be mutually exclusive.