Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

Voice atypicalities have been a characteristic feature of schizophrenia since its first
definitions. They are often associated with core negative symptoms such as flat affect and …

In speech, the highly flexible modulation of vocal pitch creates intonation patterns that
speakers use to convey linguistic meaning. This human ability is unique among primates …

In response to uncovering brain mechanisms underlying vocal communication and
searching for biomarkers for mental illnesses, speech prosody has been increasingly …

Classical neural architecture models of speech production propose a single system centred
on Broca's area coordinating all the vocal articulators from lips to larynx. Modern evidence …

Individual recognition is critical in social animal communication, but it has not been
demonstrated for a complete vocal repertoire. Deciphering the nature of individual …

The evolution of vocal communication in humans required the emergence of not only
voluntary control of the vocal apparatus and a flexible vocal repertoire, but the capacity for …

Dysarthria is an early symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) which has been proposed for
detection and monitoring of the disease with potential for telehealth. However, with inherent …

Until recently, human nonverbal vocalisations such as cries, laughs, screams, moans, and
groans have received relatively little attention in the human behavioural sciences. Yet these …

It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several
modalities, eg acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable …