Spoken language exists because of a remarkable neural process. Inside a speaker's brain,
an intended message gives rise to neural signals activating the muscles of the vocal tract …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

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 …

The idea that humans learn and maintain accurate speech by carefully monitoring auditory
feedback is widely held. But this view neglects the fact that auditory feedback is highly …

Studies of speech motor control are described that support a theoretical framework in which
fundamental control variables for phonemic movements are multi-dimensional regions in …

Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that affects the processing of musical pitch in
speakers of non-tonal languages like English and French. We assessed whether this …

Somatosensory feedback plays a critical role in the coordination of articulator movements for
speech production. In response to unexpected resistance to lip or jaw movements during …

The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center situated mid-way along both the
ascending and descending auditory pathways of the brain stem. Although it is fundamentally …

The fluency and the reliability of speech production suggest a mechanism that links motor
commands and sensory feedback. Here, we examined the neural organization supporting …

Somatosensation plays an important role in the motor control of vocal functions, yet its
neural correlate and relation to vocal learning is not well understood. We used fMRI in 17 …