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Author Spotlight: Advancements in the Fabrication of Synthetic Vocal Fold Models for Phonetic and Robotic Applications
Published on: January 5, 2024
New Developments in Understanding the Complexity of Human Speech Production
Kristina Simonyan1, Hermann Ackermann2, Edward F Chang3
1Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, kristina.simonyan@mssm.edu.
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.
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