The current review constitutes the first comprehensive look at the possibility that the
mismatch negativity (MMN, the deflection of the auditory ERP/ERF elicited by stimulus …

Speech produced by different people varies acoustically because of individual differences in
vocal tract physiology. This acoustic variation in the “same” words of language presents a …

The processing of spoken language has been attributed to areas in the superior temporal
lobe, where speech stimuli elicit the greatest activation. However, neurobiological and …

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the
nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one …

Can we decipher speech content (“what” is being said) and speaker identity (“who” is saying
it) from observations of brain activity of a listener? Here, we combine functional magnetic …

Magnetoencephalography (MEG), with its direct view to the cortex through the magnetically
transparent skull, has developed from its conception in physics laboratories to a powerful …

Highlights•The anatomic organization for language is less lateralized than
assumed.•Speech and language processing are mediated by segregated concurrent …

Which aspects of language and cognitive processing take place irrespective of whether
subjects focus their attention on incoming stimuli and are, in this sense, automatic? The …

Phonological variation of any sort (determined by speech styles, phrasing, or
morphophonological rules) affecting the shapes of words and morphemes are a matter of …

It is an old-standing debate in the field of speech communication to determine whether
speech perception involves auditory or multisensory representations and processing …