Mu-rhythm in the brain: The neural mechanism of speech as an audio-vocal perception-action system
The cortical mechanisms governing speech are not well understood because it is extremely challenging to measure the activity of the brain in action, that is, during speech production. Researchers in Japan ...
Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2012 |
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Experts urge rapid evaluation for swallowing and voice problems after brain surgery
Johns Hopkins experts are recommending early post-surgical assessment—preferably within 24 hours—for trouble chewing and swallowing food, or speaking normally, among patients who have had benign tumors removed from the ...
Cancer
Dec 03, 2012 |
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International team discover clue to Friedreich's ataxia, devastating nervous system disease
(Medical Xpress)—A new form of iron may hold the clue that leads to treatment for a fatal inherited nervous system disease that can cause gait disturbance, speech problems, heart disease, diabetes and other ...
Medical research
Nov 23, 2012 |
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New method helps target Parkinson's disease
(Medical Xpress)—Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson's disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in early testing, has proved to be effective more than 90 percent of the ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Nov 20, 2012 |
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Cambridge software improves quality of sound for hearing aid users
A new software product developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could greatly improve sound perception for users of hearing aids.
Other
Nov 08, 2012 |
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'Read my lips'—it's easier when they're your own
People can lip-read themselves better than they can lip-read others, according to a new study by Nancy Tye-Murray and colleagues from Washington University. Their work, which explores the link between speech perception and ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2012 |
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Tone-deaf people may also have limited ability to detect emotional cues in speech, study finds
A new study has revealed that those with congenital amusia (commonly refereed to as tone-deafness) have trouble decoding emotions in speech and find it hard to pick up on emotional cues in conversation.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2012 |
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Voice prostheses can help patients regain their lost voice
Help is on the way for people who suffer from vocal cord dysfunction. Researchers are developing methods that will contribute to manufacturing voice prostheses with improved affective features. For example, for little girls ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 24, 2012 |
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Neuroscientists find Broca's area is really two subunits, each with its own function
A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, this ...
Neuroscience
Oct 16, 2012 |
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What you hear could depend on what your hands are doing
New research links motor skills and perception, specifically as it relates to a second finding—a new understanding of what the left and right brain hemispheres "hear." Georgetown University Medical Center researchers say ...
Neuroscience
Oct 14, 2012 |
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Applying information theory to linguistics suggests 'functional design' in cross-language variations
The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 10, 2012 |
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New treatments may help restore speech lost to aphasia
(HealthDay)—Most people know the frustration of having a word on the "tip of your tongue" that they simply can't remember. But that passing nuisance can be an everyday occurrence for someone with aphasia, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 28, 2012 |
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Study unveils clue to the origin of dyslexia
Because dyslexia affects so many people around the world, countless studies have attempted to pinpoint the source of the learning disorder.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 19, 2012 |
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Theory: Music underlies language acquisition
(Medical Xpress)—Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the University ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 18, 2012 |
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Scientists reverse disorder of neuronal circuits in autism
People with autism suffer from a pervasive developmental disorder of the brain that becomes evident in early childhood. Peter Scheiffele and Kaspar Vogt, Professors at the Biozentrum of the University of ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Sep 14, 2012 |
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