The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

Rhythms are a fundamental and defining feature of neuronal activity in animals including
humans. This rhythmic brain activity interacts in complex ways with rhythms in the internal …

Speech production is a complex human function requiring continuous feedforward
commands together with reafferent feedback processing. These processes are carried out …

In behavior, action and perception are inherently interdependent. However, the actual
mechanistic contributions of the motor system to sensory processing are unknown. We …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

For over a century neuroscientists have debated the dynamics by which human cortical
language networks allow words to be spoken. Although it is widely accepted that Broca's …

Sensory regions of the brain integrate environmental cues with copies of motor-related
signals important for imminent and ongoing movements. In mammals, signals propagating …

Many theories of perception are anchored in the central notion that the brain continuously
updates an internal model of the world to infer the probable causes of sensory events. In this …

How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is
unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary …

Sounds can arise from the environment and also predictably from many of our own
movements, such as vocalizing, walking, or playing music. The capacity to anticipate these …