ABSTRACT
The relative ease with which most human beings comprehend and produce speech belies the complexity of the psychological and neuronal systems that underlie its processing. The past few years have seen notable advances in our understanding of the neural substrate for speech and language processing, particularly thanks to the development of functional brain imaging techniques. In this chapter I will review some work relevant to these questions from our laboratory and provide a sketch of some of the major theoretical conclusions that can be drawn from this work to date.
