What is Involved and What is Necessary for Complex Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Auditory Processing: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Lesion Data

It is found that language and environmental sounds recruit highly overlapping cortical regions, with cross-domain differences being graded rather than absolute, and within language-based regions of interest, in the left hemisphere, language andEnvironmental sound stimuli evoked very similar volumes of activation, whereas in the right hemisphere, there was greater activation for environmental sound stimuli.