title: New Developments in Understanding the Complexity of Human Speech Production.
abstract: Speech is one of the most unique features of human communication. Our ability to articulate our thoughts by means of speech production depends critically on the integrity of the motor cortex. Long thought to be a low-order brain region, exciting work in the past years is overturning this notion. Here, we highlight some of major experimental advances in speech motor control research and discuss the emerging findings about the complexity of speech motocortical organization and its large-scale networks. This review summarizes the talks presented at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience; it does not represent a comprehensive review of contemporary literature in the broader field of speech motor control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, kristina.simonyan@mssm.edu.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7444-0437
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Simonyan
authors.affiliation: Center of Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen 72076, Germany.
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ackermann
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, and.
authors.forename: Edward F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
authors.forename: Jeremy D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Greenlee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement / Q000379:methods; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: ECoG; motor cortex; neuroimaging; speech production