In the last two decades there has been an increase on task and resting-state functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies that explore the brain's functional changes in …

In social interactions, humans can express how they feel in what (verbal) they say and how
(non‐verbal) they say it. Although decoding of vocal emotion expressions occurs rapidly …

Speech perception consists of a set of computations that take continuously varying acoustic
waveforms as input and generate discrete representations that make contact with the lexical …

Cortical analysis of speech has long been considered the domain of left-hemisphere
auditory areas. A recent hypothesis poses that cortical processing of acoustic signals …

Recent MRI studies have indicated that regions of the temporal lobe including the superior
temporal gyrus (STG) and the temporal stem (TS) appear to be abnormal in autism. In this …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

The human brain has a preference for processing of emotionally salient stimuli. In the
auditory modality, emotional prosody can induce such involuntary biasing of processing …

A fundamental goal of the human auditory system is to map complex acoustic signals onto
stable internal representations of the basic sound patterns of speech. Phonemes and the …

Speech processing in auditory cortex and beyond is a remarkable yet poorly understood
faculty of the listening brain. Here we show that stop consonants, as the most transient …

This investigation provides an analysis of structural asymmetries in 5 anatomically defined
regions (Heschl's gyrus, HG; Heschl's sulcus, HS; planum temporale, PT; planum polare, PP; …