The inquisitiveness about what happens in the brain has been there since the beginning of
humankind. Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a prominent tool which helps in the …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Исследование вопроса о происхождении человеческого языка, или глоттогенеза,
похоже на детектив: слишком много версий и улики-доказательства приходится …

Do the gestures that speakers produce while talking significantly benefit listeners'
comprehension of the message? This question has been the topic of many research studies …

One reason for the apparent gulf between animal and human communication systems is that
the focus has been on the presence or the absence of language as a complex expressive …

Does “the motor system” play “a role” in speech perception? If so, where, how, and when?
We conducted a systematic review that addresses these questions using both qualitative …

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to
communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in …

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other
species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique …

In this paper it is proposed that the prefrontal lobe participates in two closely related but
different executive function abilities:(1)“metacognitive executive functions”: problem solving …

Recent research in psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that co-speech
gestures are semantically integrated with speech during language comprehension and …