Speech production, like other sensorimotor behaviors, relies on multiple sensory inputs—audition, proprioceptive inputs from muscle spindles and cutaneous inputs from mechanoreceptors in the skin and ...

From working on vocabulary words during meals to listening to music in the car, these expert-backed tips can help parents get ...

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed.

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes. One important part of this is speech motor learning, the brain's ability ...

Speech learning boost: Infants learned multi-syllable speech sequences faster when caregivers responded to their complex vocalizations. Birds mirror humans: Zebra finches showed similar gains from ...

When we speak, although we may not be aware of it, we use our auditory and somatosensory systems to monitor the results of the movements of our tongue or lips. This sensory information plays a ...

Growing up in China, I started playing piano when I was nine years old and learning English when I was 12. Later, when I was a college student, it struck me how similar language and music are to each ...

When we speak, we use our auditory and somatosensory systems to monitor the results of the movements of our tongue or lips. Since we cannot typically see our own faces and tongues while we speak, ...