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 …

Our vocal tone—the prosody—contributes a lot to the meaning of speech beyond the actual
words. Indeed, the hesitant tone of a" yes" may be more telling than its affirmative lexical …

It is not unusual to find it stated as a fact that the left hemisphere is specialized for the
processing of rapid, or temporal aspects of sound, and that the dominance of the left …

Speech perception is believed to recruit the left motor cortex. However, the exact role of the
laryngeal subregion and its right counterpart in speech perception, as well as their temporal …

According to a traditional view, speech perception and production are processed largely
separately in sensory and motor brain areas. Recent psycholinguistic and neuroimaging …

Recent evidence suggests that the motor system may have a facilitatory role in speech
perception during noisy listening conditions. Studies clearly show an association between …

The basis for different neural activations in response to male and female voices as well as
the question, whether men and women perceive male and female voices differently, has not …

Whether auditory processing of speech relies on reference to the articulatory motor
information of speaker remains elusive. Here, we addressed this issue under a two-brain …

Background: The ability to communicate using speech is a remarkable skill, which requires
precise coordination of articulatory movements and decoding of complex acoustic signals …

Speakers unconsciously tend to mimic their interlocutor's speech during communicative
interaction. This study aims at examining the neural correlates of phonetic convergence and …