News tagged with human speech
Researchers rewrite textbook on location of brain's speech processing center
Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received -- a place famously known as Wernicke's area ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New research to enhance speech recognition technology
New research is hoping to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 17, 2012 |
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'Look at that!' -- ravens use gestures, too
Pointing and holding up objects in order to attract attention has so far only been observed in humans and our closest living relatives, the great apes. Simone Pika from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Thomas ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Chimpanzee studies suggest speech perception not a uniquely human trait
We all know that experience is a powerful teaching tool: practice remodels neural connections and leads to mastery. Now scientists suggest that it is early experience with language—and not special innate cognitive ability—that ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Chatty robots go viral on YouTube
(PhysOrg.com) -- An online chat between two robots set up by Cornell students is entertaining the nation.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Babies are specially attuned to our voices and emotions
Young babies' brains are already specially attuned to the sounds of human voices and emotions, according to a report published online on June 30 in Current Biology.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Researchers identify components of speech recognition pathway in humans
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain needs to identify sounds such as speech — and discovered that they ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Wired for sound: A small fish's brain illustrates how people and other vertebrates produce sounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have identified regions of a fish brain that reveal the basic circuitry for how all vertebrates, including humans, generate sound used for social communication.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Encrypted VoIP not as secure as it sounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics researchers working with computer scientists at the University of North Carolina have shown that voice conversations over the Internet, even if they are encrypted, are not as secure ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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'Emotionsense' determines emotions by phone
A system which enables psychologists to track people’s emotional behavior through their mobile phones has been successfully road-tested by researchers.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Monkeys keep their words short, just like us
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that Formosan macaque monkeys prefer to keep their "words" short, using long vocalizations only occasionally.
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Duke scientists map brain pathway for vocal learning
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified neurons in the songbird brain that convey the auditory feedback needed to learn a song.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Why can we talk? 'Humanized' mice speak volumes
Mice carrying a "humanized version" of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Research calls for a new formula for trade mark protection
Trade mark protection serves the needs of trade mark owners well -- but to the detriment of the consuming public and other traders and rivals, says a new study from the University of Leicester.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 18, 2009 |
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It's like software understands, um, language
(PhysOrg.com) -- EU researchers have taken speech recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can understand spontaneous language. It will, like, make human-machine interaction, um, work a lot ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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