The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

In less than three decades, the concept “cerebellar neurocognition” has evolved from a mere
afterthought to an entirely new and multifaceted area of neuroscientific research. A close …

Evidence for a role of the human cerebellum in cognitive functions comes from anatomical,
clinical and neuroimaging data. Functional neuroimaging reveals cerebellar activation …

Apart from its function in speech motor control, the supplementary motor area (SMA) has
largely been neglected in models of speech and language processing in the brain. The aim …

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 …

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 …

Lesion and neuroimaging studies indicate that the insula mediates motor aspects of speech
production, specifically, articulatory control. Although it has direct connections to Broca's …

Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Speech production is one of the most complex and rapid motor behaviors, and it involves a
precise coordination of more than 100 laryngeal, orofacial, and respiratory muscles. Yet we …

Purpose Speech and other oral functions such as swallowing have been compared and
contrasted with oral behaviors variously labeled quasispeech, paraspeech, speechlike, and …