Humans are highly social, typically without this ability requiring noticeable efforts. Yet, such
social fluency poses challenges both for the human brain to compute and for scientists to …

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the developed world and the primary cause of
adult disability. The most common site of stroke is the middle cerebral artery (MCA), an …

Verbal interaction and imitation are essential for language learning and development in
young children. However, it is unclear how mother–child dyads synchronize oscillatory …

Phonetic convergence describes the automatic and unconscious speech adaptation of two
interlocutors in a conversation. This paper proposes a Siamese recurrent neural network …

This introductory article for the Special Issue on Forms, Factors and Functions of Phonetic
Convergence offers a comprehensive overview of the dominant theoretical paradigms …

This study focuses on inter-individual convergence effects in the perception and
categorization of speech sounds. We ask to what extent two listeners can come to establish …

The human brain tracks available speech acoustics and extrapolates missing information
such as the speaker's articulatory patterns. However, the extent to which articulatory …

Research on language use has become increasingly interested in the multimodal and
interactional aspects of language–theoretical models of dialogue, such as the …

Hyperscanning is an emerging technique that allows for the study of brain similarities
between interacting individuals. This methodology has powerful implications for …

Accurate localization of brain regions responsible for language and cognitive functions in
epilepsy patients is important. Electrocorticography (ECoG)-based real-time functional …