A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an essential role in how people use the sound of their voices to control how they want the words ...

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them. Speaking is one of the most ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 15 (April 15, 2014), pp. 5718-5722 (5 pages) Complex motor responses are often thought to result from the ...

Auditory corollary discharge in the human starts in the bottom, or ventral, part of the motor cortex, a subregion called the precentral gyrus (red), and then move down across its folds to a ...

Image highlights the dorsal precentral gyrus (in red), crossing the folded front surface at the top of the brain. (NYU Grossman School of Medicine) Scientists have identified a region of the brain ...

You've probably heard the phrase, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it," and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern University's School of Communication, the ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...