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New Developments in Understanding the Complexity of Human Speech Production

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Speech is one of the most unique features of human communication. Our ability to articulate our thoughts by means of speech production depends critically on the integrity of the motor cortex. Long thought to be a low-order brain region, exciting work in the past years is overturning this notion. Here, we highlight some of major experimental advances in speech motor control research and discuss the emerging findings about the complexity of speech motocortical organization and its large-scale networks. This review summarizes the talks presented at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience; it does not represent a comprehensive review of contemporary literature in the broader field of speech motor control.

Source: Journal of Neuroscience

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2424-16.2016

Authors: Kristina Simonyan, Hermann Ackermann, Edward F. Chang, Jeremy D. Greenlee

Institutions: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, University of California, San Francisco, University of Iowa

Language: English

Topic: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke