A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex

EM Gordon, RJ Chauvin, AN Van, A Rajesh, A Nielsen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Motor cortex (M1) has been thought to form a continuous somatotopic homunculus
extending down the precentral gyrus from foot to face representations,, despite evidence for …

The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules

RD Kent - Infant Behavior and Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Stage models have been influential in characterizing infant vocalizations in the first year of
life. These models are basically descriptive and do not explain why certain types of vocal …

The importance of deep speech phenotyping for neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders: A conceptual review

KV Chenausky, H Tager-Flusberg - Journal of Neurodevelopmental …, 2022 - Springer
Background Speech is the most common modality through which language is
communicated, and delayed, disordered, or absent speech production is a hallmark of many …

Premotor cortex is hypoactive during sustained vowel production in individuals with Parkinson's disease and hypophonia

JL Manes, AS Kurani, E Herschel… - Frontiers in human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Hypophonia is a common feature of Parkinson's disease (PD); however, the
contribution of motor cortical activity to reduced phonatory scaling in PD is still not clear …

Decoding imagined speech from EEG using transfer learning

JT Panachakel, RA Ganesan - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a transfer learning-based approach for decoding imagined speech from
electroencephalogram (EEG). Features are extracted simultaneously from multiple EEG …

Neural basis of speech and grammar symptoms in non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum

DL Lorca-Puls, A Gajardo-Vidal, ML Mandelli… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) is a
neurodegenerative syndrome primarily defined by the presence of apraxia of speech (AoS) …

A dual larynx motor networks hypothesis

M Belyk, N Eichert… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans are vocal modulators par excellence. This ability is supported in part by the dual
representation of the laryngeal muscles in the motor cortex. Movement, however, is not the …

Restoring Speech Using Brain–Computer Interfaces

SD Stavisky - Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 2025 - annualreviews.org
People who have lost the ability to speak due to neurological injuries would greatly benefit
from assistive technology that provides a fast, intuitive, and naturalistic means of …

The effect of focal damage to the right medial posterior cerebellum on word and sentence comprehension and production

S Geva, LM Schneider, S Roberts… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Functional imaging studies of neurologically intact adults have demonstrated that the right
posterior cerebellum is activated during verb generation, semantic processing, sentence …

Region‐specific preservation of Purkinje cell morphology and motor behavior in the ATXN1 [82Q] mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia 1

JJ White, LWJ Bosman, FGC Blot, C Osório… - Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purkinje cells are the primary processing units of the cerebellar cortex and display molecular
heterogeneity that aligns with differences in physiological properties, projection patterns …