Health informatics
Virtual reality to help patients speak up
Immersive virtual reality (VR) technology could help speech pathologists treat communication disorders, according to University of Queensland research.
Apr 1, 2021
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HIV & AIDS
New study shows how tests of hearing can reveal HIV's effects on the brain
Even with effective anti-retroviral therapy, patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sustain central nervous system damage. Whether these problems can be mainly attributed to the disease, its treatments, ...
Jun 30, 2020
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Neuroscience
Can you hear what I say? New findings on human speech recognition
Neuroscientists at TU Dresden were able to prove that speech recognition in humans begins in the sensory pathways from the ear to the cerebral cortex and not, as previously assumed, exclusively in the cerebral cortex itself.
Aug 28, 2019
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Neuroscience
Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering
Researchers believe that stuttering—a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder—stems from problems with the circuits in the brain that control speech, but precisely how and where these problems occur is unknown. ...
Aug 19, 2019
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Pediatrics
Infants' advances in speech processing play role in language-cognition link
A new Northwestern University study provides the first evidence that infants' increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language sets constraints on the range of human languages they will link to ...
Mar 13, 2019
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Neuroscience
Study of singing mice suggests how mammalian brain achieves conversation
By studying the songs of mice from the cloud forests of Costa Rica, researchers have discovered a brain circuit that may enable the high-speed back and forth of conversation.
Feb 28, 2019
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Neuroscience
Primate study offers clues to evolution of speech
New research examining the brains and vocal repertoires of primates offers important insight into the evolution of human speech.
Aug 9, 2018
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Neuroscience
Researchers pinpoint when our brains convert speech sounds into meaning
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have identified the precise moment our brains convert speech sounds into meaning. They have, for the first time, shown that fine-grained speech processing details can be extracted from ...
Sep 25, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
From sounds to the meaning
Without understanding the "referential function" of language (words as "verbal labels," symbolizing other things), it is impossible to learn a language. Is this implicit knowledge already present early in infants? A study ...
Sep 2, 2015
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Neuroscience
Team glimpses how the brain transforms sound
When people hear the sound of footsteps or the drilling of a woodpecker, the rhythmic structure of the sounds is striking, says Michael Wehr, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.
Apr 23, 2015
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