The main focus of the Speech Communication group is the neural basis of human speech processing. We are particularly interested in how this relates to subsystems in human auditory cortex, analogies with communication by non-human primates, and the role of sensorimotor interfaces in speech perception.
See and hear an example of some of our stimuli here.
The group is working on the role of the right temporal lobe in speech perception, whether is it preferentially interested in sequences with more prosodic/ intonational cues, or speaker identity cues, or both. We also work on non-speech communication sounds such as sounds made by different effectors and emotional vocalisations. We are currently also working on visual and auditory aspects of speech.
- Dr Phil Beaman, Unversity of Reading
- Dr Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
- Professor Martin Cook, University of the Basque Country
- Professor Clair Elwell, UCL
- Dr Frank Eisner, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
- Dr Narly Golestani, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Dr Sonia Kotz, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
- Dr Rob Leech, Imperial College London
- Dr Alex Leff, UCL
- Dr Jonas Obleser, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
- Professor Stuart Rosen, UCL Department of Phonetics
- Dr Disa Sauter, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
- Dr David Sharp, Imperial College London
- Dr Jane Warren, Imperial College London
- Professor Richard Wise, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre
Recent Announcements
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Wernicke's area: are we still looking for it? Was it ever lost Where is speech perception in the brain? In 1881 Karl Wernicke described patients with lesions in the left temporal lobe and a problem in understanding spoken language. Since this discovery ...
Posted 23 Feb 2012 08:23 by SCL Laboratory
