The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for
the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known …

Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions,
psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the …

For over a century neuroscientists have debated the dynamics by which human cortical
language networks allow words to be spoken. Although it is widely accepted that Broca's …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

I apply a recently emerging perspective on the complexity of action selection, the rate–
distortion theory of control, to provide a computational-level model of errors and difficulties in …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is
the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive meta-analysis of the relevant imaging
literature on word production (82 experiments). In addition to the spatial overlap of activated …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …