It is increasingly recognized that the human planum temporale is not a dedicated language
processor, but is in fact engaged in the analysis of many types of complex sound. We …

A striking property of speech perception is its resilience in the face of acoustic variability
(among speech sounds produced by different speakers at different times, for example). The …

Two categories of objects in the environment—animals and man-made manipulable objects
(tools)—are easily recognized by either their auditory or visual features. Although these …

Although auditory distance perception is a critical component of spatial hearing, it has
received substantially less scientific attention than the directional aspects of auditory …

In the present review, we summarize the most recent findings and current views about the
structural and functional basis of human brain lateralization in the auditory modality. Main …

There has been substantial progress over the last several years in understanding aspects of
the functional neuroanatomy of language. Some of these advances are summarized in this …

The anatomical connectivity of ventrolateral frontal areas 44 and 45, which in the human
brain constitute Broca's region, has been revisited on the basis of experimental anatomical …

The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia is characterized by early deficits in
language production and phonological short-term memory, attributed to left-lateralized …

Understanding the functional organization of the human primary auditory cortex (PAC) is an
essential step in elucidating the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of sound …

Functional neuroimaging methods have reached maturity. It is now possible to start to build
the foundations of a physiology of language. The remarkable number of neuroimaging …