Despite intensive work on language–brain relations, and a fairly impressive accumulation of
knowledge over the last several decades, there has been little progress in developing large …

We examine the evidence that speech and musical sounds exploit different acoustic cues:
speech is highly dependent on rapidly changing broadband sounds, whereas tonal patterns …

We used positron emission tomography to examine the response of human auditory cortex
to spectral and temporal variation. Volunteers listened to sequences derived from a standard …

The functional neuroanatomy of speech perception has been difficult to characterize. Part of
the difficulty, we suggest, stems from the fact that the neural systems supporting 'speech …

The neural correlates of music perception were studied by measuring cerebral blood flow
(CBF) changes with positron emission tomography (PET). Twelve volunteers were scanned …

The present study used positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the cerebral activity
pattern associated with auditory imagery for familiar tunes. Subjects either imagined the …

This chapter reviews theoretical models and empirical evidence on the effects of emotion on
vocalization, in particular on human speech. Of all expressive manifestations of emotional …

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 …

The gyral morphology of the region of the primary auditory cortex (PAC) in the human brain
is highly variable, and possible asymmetries between the hemispheres have been noted …

This study examined the neural areas involved in the recognition of both emotional prosody
and phonemic components of words expressed in spoken language using echo-planar …