The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

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 and Voice Science, Fourth Edition is the only textbook to provide comprehensive
and detailed information on both voice source and vocal tract contributions to speech …

Sentence structure, or syntax, is potentially a uniquely creative aspect of the human mind.
Neuropsychological experiments in the 1970s suggested parallel syntactic production and …

Objective. Directly decoding imagined speech from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals
has attracted much interest in brain–computer interface applications, because it provides a …

The gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis is proposed as an alternative interpretation to
the auditory timing mechanisms discussed in Ackermann et al.'s article. This hypothesis …

Listening speech sounds activates motor and premotor areas in addition to temporal and
parietal brain regions. These activations are somatotopically localized according to the …

The speech signal is rife with variations in phonetic ambiguity. For instance, when talkers
speak in a conversational register, they demonstrate less articulatory precision, leading to …

This study examines the effect of real-time subtitles generated by automatic speech
recognition (ASR) technology on interpreting accuracy and interpreters' cognitive load …

The activation of listener's motor system during speech processing was first demonstrated by
the enhancement of electromyographic tongue potentials as evoked by single-pulse …