Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology for Speech and Hearing Sciences

Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology for Speech and Hearing Sciences

By J. Anthony Seikel

The study of the brain and its functions is at the heart of communication sciences and its disorders. There are many neurological conditions that immediately come to mind when we think of maladies affecting the brain, and the nervous system is intrinsically involved in most of the activities of our field, from the cognitive and motoric aspects of phonology or the impact of myelination on normal language development to (central) auditory processing disorder. All human actions arise from processes of the nervous system, and we can trace many of the deficits treated in our professions to some type of failure affecting this nervous system.

It is with this understanding that we sought to create this textbook and study materials. Neuroscience is the study of what is arguably the most complex phenomenon in the known universe, the nervous system. We, as humans, have brains that are uniquely complex in structure and, most important, in function. The human brain has evolved to work in complex networks that entrain multiple areas of the brain, giving it a capacity for problem-solving that outstrips our nearest evolutionary neighbors.

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