Rethinking the Voice: New Study Reveals Sensory Brain Regions—Not Motor Centers—Drive Speech Learning
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July 1, 2026
For decades, the prevailing doctrine in neuroscience held that human speech was a feat of motor control. Scientists operated under the assumption that the brain’s frontal motor areas—the command centers governing the lips, tongue, and vocal tract—were…
