Laryngeal motor cortex and control of speech in humans

Neuroscientist

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-208

  Simonyan, Kristina ^a   Horwitz, Barry ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

human; motor control; nonhuman primate; speech; voice

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING MUSCLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLAUSTRUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LARYNGEAL MOTOR CORTEX; LARYNX; LOCUS CERULEUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRINCIPAL SENSORY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH; SUBCORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; LARYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 79953846112     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858410386727     Document Type: Article

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