During speech processing, human listeners can separately analyze lexical and intonational
cues to arrive at a unified representation of communicative content. The evolution of this …

Does brain asymmetry for speech and music emerge from acoustical cues or from domain-
specific neural networks? We selectively filtered temporal or spectral modulations in sung …

How does intention to speak become the action of speaking? It involves the generation of a
preverbal message that is tailored to the requirements of a particular language, and through …

How does the bilingual brain distinguish and control which language is in use? Previous
functional imaging experiments have not been able to answer this question because …

Human infants begin to acquire their native language in the first months of life. To determine
which brain regions support language processing at this young age, we measured with …

Although language, and therefore spoken language or speech, is often considered unique
to humans, the past several decades have seen a surge in nonhuman animal studies that …

During speech acquisition, children form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of
a new word after only a single exposure—a process dubbed “fast mapping.” Here we …

In normal conversation, speakers translate thoughts into words at high speed. To enable this
speed, the retrieval of distinct types of linguistic knowledge has to be orchestrated with …

Although the sentences that we hear or read have meaning, this does not necessarily mean
that they are also true. Relatively little is known about the critical brain structures for, and the …

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 …