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This model predicts a relationship between auditory short-term memory capacity and performance on spoken comprehension tasks that require multiple lexical representations to be active.

Functional and structural imaging studies show that this region is involved in performing sentence-level spoken comprehension tasks, acting in concert with other important brain regions (Crinion et al., 2003; Capek et al., 2004; Spitsyna et al., 2006; Amici et al., 2007; Friederici et al., 2009).

It is therefore not surprising that our long-range synchronies fall into the fast frequencies, consistent with the view that gamma oscillations are an important part of the functional network that subserves normal spoken comprehension (Hald et al. 2006).

Regarding the neural basis of language comprehension, a linguistically based model of spoken language comprehension discriminates between segmental and suprasegmental information of speech (Friederici and Alter 2004).

To capture syntax level deficits, the spoken sentence comprehension task from the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) (Swinburn et al., 2005) was administered.

The importance of the right anterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus in language comprehension subsequent to left posterior temporal lesions has been demonstrated in previous studies of spoken language comprehension and has been related to the degree of recovery from comprehension impairment (Crinion and Price, 2005; Warren et al., 2009).

To clarify the left articulatory motor cortex's role in single word comprehension, we here used the standard psycholinguistic test of spoken language comprehension, the word-to-picture-matching task.

Analysis 3 included the same regressors as Analysis 2, with the addition of two comprehension scores; spoken single word comprehension and written sentence comprehension.

The right panel of Fig. 4 illustrates the significant correlation between the structural integrity of this region and spoken sentence comprehension score, r(199) = 0.22, P = 0.002 (right panel Fig. 4), but not single word comprehension, r(199) = -0.03, P = 0.66 or written sentences, r(199) = 0.05, P = 0.45.

The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit.

The localisation of spoken language comprehension is debated extensively: is processing located anterior or posterior on the left temporal lobe, and is it left- or bilaterally organised?