Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

During conversation, people take turns speaking by rapidly responding to their partners
while simultaneously avoiding interruption,. Such interactions display a remarkable degree …

Two analytic traditions characterize fMRI language research. One relies on averaging
activations across individuals. This approach has limitations: because of inter-individual …

Although language, and therefore spoken language or speech, is often considered unique
to humans, the past several decades have seen a surge in nonhuman animal studies that …

This review paper summarizes the various brain modules that are involved in speech and
language communication in addition to a left-dominant “core” language network that, for the …

Humans are capable of generating extraordinarily diverse articulatory movement
combinations to produce meaningful speech. This ability to orchestrate specific phonetic …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Lesion studies are an important tool for cognitive neuroscientists and neurologists. However,
while brain lesion studies have traditionally aimed to localize neurological symptoms to …

What determines the functional organization of cortex? One hypothesis is that innate
connectivity patterns, either structural or functional connectivity, set up a scaffold upon which …