Brain 'hears' voices when reading direct speech
(Medical Xpress) -- When reading direct quotations, the brain hears the voice of the speaker, say scientists.
Jul 26, 2011
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(Medical Xpress) -- When reading direct quotations, the brain hears the voice of the speaker, say scientists.
Jul 26, 2011
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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 have found modulation ...
Dec 5, 2012
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Considered the "silent killer," high blood pressure affects approximately one billion people worldwide, including one in three adults in the United States. From May 15 – 18, 2013, members of the medical community from across ...
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Anyone who has had frequent blood pressure checks knows that blood pressure is never constant.
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Skilled readers are known to extract information not only from the word they are looking at but from the one directly following it. This phenomenon is called pre-processing. Researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Reading aloud is an activity that we associate with the cozy comfort of children's bedtime stories. Certainly, children's classics from The Gruffalo to the Alice books are produced knowing that when they come to be read, ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Better strategies are needed to help glaucoma patients cope with difficulty reading. According to a new scientific study published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, adults with glaucoma read slower when reading ...
Dec 10, 2012
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