http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. What goes on inside our heads is similar to an orchestra. For Peter Hagoort, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, this image is a very apt one for explaining how speech arises in the human brain. "There are different orchestra members and different instruments, all playing in time with each other, and sounding perfect together." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-great-orchestral-speech.html Neuroscience Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:20:01 EST news281087528 Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Sheila Blumstein, the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University, will describe how she has been translating decades of brain science research into a potential therapy for improving speech production in these patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-speech-networks-aphasia.html Neuroscience Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:06:40 EST news280242373 (Medical Xpress)—Stroke victims affected with loss of speech caused by Broca's aphasia have been shown to speak fluidly through the use of a process called "speech entrainment" developed by researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-technique-victims.html Neuroscience Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:02:13 EST news277552885 The cortical mechanisms governing speech are not well understood because it is extremely challenging to measure the activity of the brain in action, that is, during speech production. Researchers in Japan have found modulation of mu-rhythms in the cortex related to speech production. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mu-rhythm-brain-neural-mechanism-speech.html Neuroscience Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:51:20 EST news273912667 People can lip-read themselves better than they can lip-read others, according to a new study by Nancy Tye-Murray and colleagues from Washington University. Their work, which explores the link between speech perception and speech production, is published online in Springer's Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-lipsit-easier-theyre.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:30:25 EST news271600213 A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, this region is believed to be critical for speech production and some aspects of language comprehension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-neuroscientists-broca-area-subunits-function.html Neuroscience Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:40:53 EST news269592007 When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22 in Current Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-toddlers-dont-voice-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:13 EST news243777504