From the team of Ziv Williams, Sydney Cash, and colleagues. Co-first authors Arjun Khanna and William Muñoz. Featured in the Harvard Gazette.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrate how neurons in the human brain work together to allow people to think about what words they want to say and then produce them aloud through speech. The findings provide a detailed map of how speech sounds such as consonants and vowels are represented in the brain well before they are even spoken and how they are strung together during language production.