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Researchers produce 'neural fingerprint' of speech recognition
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Scientists from Maastricht University (Netherlands) have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques ...
Where the brain makes sense of speech
Dec 19, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified regions of the brain where speech sounds are perceived as having abstract meaning, rather than as just a stream of sensory input. They said their identification of the regions demonstrates that ...
Our faces, not just our ears 'hear' speech: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A McGill-led study has found that the perception of speech sounds is modified by stretching facial skin in different directions. Different patterns of skin stretch affect how subjects perceive different words.
Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...
Unraveling the roots of dyslexia
Mar 12, 2009 |
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By peering into the brains of people with dyslexia compared to normal readers, a study published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has shed new light on the roots of the learning disability, which ...
Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception (Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2009 |
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When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats ...
Christmas Carol Talk
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Even without the lyrics, the tunes of some Christmas carols -- such as "Jingle Bells" or "Deck the Halls" -- sound uplifting. But the melodies of other songs like "We Three Kings" have a different, somber sound.
Tactile input affects what we hear: study
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Nov 30, 2009 |
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Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.
When do babies develop a love of speech?
Feb 20, 2006 |
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Is the newborn preference for speech innate, developed in utero or acquired during the early days post-partum? McGill University psychologist Dr Athena Vouloumanos says she's broken the uterine sound barrier ...
Disappearing vowels 'caught' on tape in US midwest
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically.
Brain section multitasks, handling phonetics and decision-making
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Jun 30, 2009 |
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A front portion of the brain that handles tasks like decision-making also helps decipher different phonetic sounds, according to new Brown University research.
Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...
Woman aquires new accent after stroke
Jul 03, 2008 |
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A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Jo ...
Study Captures Brain's Activity Processing Speech
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Rad, Lad. You might be able to hear the difference, but to many children and adults, these words sound exactly the same. The problem isn’t that they can’t hear the sounds. The problem is that they can’t ...
Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments. The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...
