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 ...

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

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 ...

A new imaging study that examined the brains of a group of Brazilian mediums while they were in a dissociative, or trance, state may shed light on "disastrous psychiatric conditions" such as ...

Background Lateral ankle sprains (LAS) are the most common ankle injuries in sports and have the highest recurrence rates. Almost half of these patients develop chronic ankle instability (CAI).