Computational neuroanatomy of speech production

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2012 Jan 5;13(2):135-45. doi: 10.1038/nrn3158.

Abstract

Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions, psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the resulting chasm between these approaches seems to reflect a level of analysis difference: whereas motor control is concerned with lower-level articulatory control, psycholinguistics focuses on higher-level linguistic processing. However, closer examination of both approaches reveals a substantial convergence of ideas. The goal of this article is to integrate psycholinguistic and motor control approaches to speech production. The result of this synthesis is a neuroanatomically grounded, hierarchical state feedback control model of speech production.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cerebral Cortex / anatomy & histology
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
  • Feedback
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Neuroanatomy*
  • Psycholinguistics*
  • Speech / physiology*