The present study provides direct evidence suggesting that the mechanisms to extract words and structural dependencies from continuous speech are functionally segregated.
All normal people are capable of speech, which is functionally associated with certain gross and microscopic features of Broca's speech area in the left frontal lobe (see Keller et al., 2009 for review).
A word search of the past fifty State of the Union addresses — including the speeches that new Presidents give to a joint session of Congress (not technically a State of the Union address but functionally similar) — turns up very few mentions of "poverty" or the "poor" after Johnson left office.
It also provided information concerning a patient's prosthetic knowledge, prosthesis kind, causes of tooth loss, factors affecting the choice of treatments, their prosthetic needs, source of information, their views regarding prosthetic rehabilitation and their overall satisfaction with their current prosthesis or situation esthetically, functionally and speech efficiency.
Both bands are functionally distinct in speech processing.
One hemisphere, usually the left, is functionally dominant, controlling language and speech.
This program has primarily used H215O PET imaging of different speaking tasks by right-handed adult male and female persistent stutterers, recovered stutterers and controls in order to isolate the neural regions that are functionally associated with stuttered speech.
Inferior frontal gyrus : On parasagittal sections the inferior frontal gyrus presents with an M-shaped configuration comprising the partes orbitalis, triangularis and opercularis, the latter being functionally associated with Broca's motor speech area.
This result suggests that words and rules may be tracked in parallel, by engaging functionally different mechanisms that could be applied to the speech signal simultaneously.
Functionally, the caudate nucleus is overactive during speech production (Watkins, Gadian, & Vargha-Khadem, 1999), whereas the left inferior frontal gyrus and posterior language cortex are underactive (Liégeois et al., 2003).
