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 …

An unresolved issue in comparative approaches to speech evolution is the apparent
absence of an intermediate vocal communication system between human speech and the …

Humans and great apes are highly social species, and encounter conspecifics throughout
their daily lives. During social interactions, they exchange information about their emotional …

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The emergence of biometric technology provides enhanced security compared to the
traditional identification and authentication techniques that were less efficient and secure …

It has become widely accepted that humans use contextual information to infer the meaning
of ambiguous acoustic signals. In speech, for example, high-level semantic, syntactic, or …

The current study represents a first attempt at examining the neural basis of dramatic acting.
While all people play multiple roles in daily life—for example,'spouse'or 'employee'—these …

Human speech perception is a paradigm example of the complexity of human linguistic
processing; however, it is also the dominant way of expressing vocal identity and is critically …

The contribution of insular cortex to speech production remains unclear and controversial
given diverse findings from functional neuroimaging and lesional data. To create a precise …

Human creative cognition is commonly described as a twofold cyclic process that involves
an idea generation phase and an idea evaluation phase. Although the evaluation phase …