TY - JOUR T1 - New Developments in Understanding the Complexity of Human Speech Production JF - The Journal of Neuroscience JO - J. Neurosci. SP - 11440 LP - 11448 DO - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2424-16.2016 VL - 36 IS - 45 AU - Kristina Simonyan AU - Hermann Ackermann AU - Edward F. Chang AU - Jeremy D. Greenlee Y1 - 2016/11/09 UR - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/45/11440.abstract N2 - Speech is one of the most unique features of human communication. Our ability to articulate our thoughts by means of speech production depends critically on the integrity of the motor cortex. Long thought to be a low-order brain region, exciting work in the past years is overturning this notion. Here, we highlight some of major experimental advances in speech motor control research and discuss the emerging findings about the complexity of speech motocortical organization and its large-scale networks. This review summarizes the talks presented at a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience; it does not represent a comprehensive review of contemporary literature in the broader field of speech motor control. ER -