Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Transcranial electric stimulation (tES), comprising transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS) and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), involves applying weak …

Successful perception of speech in everyday listening conditions requires effective listening
strategies to overcome common acoustic distortions, such as background noise. Convergent …

This chapter focuses on the nature of sensation and perception. Many classifications of
sensory systems exist, distinctions are made between five sensory modalities: vision …

Older adults often experience difficulties in understanding speech, partly because of age-
related hearing loss (HL). In young adults, activity of the left articulatory motor cortex is …

This study aimed to characterize effects of coil orientation on the size of Motor Evoked
Potentials (MEPs) from both sides of Orbicularis Oris (OO) and both First Dorsal …

When we observe someone else speaking, we tend to automatically activate the
corresponding speech motor patterns. When listening, we therefore covertly imitate the …

Comprehending speech can be particularly challenging in a noisy environment and in the
absence of semantic context. It has been proposed that the articulatory motor system would …

The past 20 years have seen a methodological revolution in spoken language research. A
diverse range of neuroscientific techniques are now available that allow researchers to …

Motor areas for speech production activate during speech perception. Such activation may
assist speech perception in challenging listening conditions. It is not known how ageing …