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 …

Speech production demands a number of integrated processing stages. The system must
encode the speech motor programs that command movement trajectories of the articulators …

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 …

Synergy discusses a general problem in biology: The lack of an adequate language for
formulating biologically specific problems. Written for an inquisitive reader who is not …

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 …

We present a new computational model of speech motor control: the Feedback-Aware
Control of Tasks in Speech or FACTS model. FACTS employs a hierarchical state feedback …

Several studies have shown that motor-skill training over extended time periods results in
reorganization of neural networks and changes in brain morphology. Yet, little is known …

The functional sensorimotor nature of speech production has been demonstrated in studies
examining speech adaptation to auditory and/or somatosensory feedback manipulations …

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 limitation in performance of current speech synthesis and speech recognition systems
may result from the fact that these systems are not designed with respect to the human …