Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci.
Mar 28, 2022
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In an analysis of data from national Swedish registries for extremely preterm babies (born before 24 weeks) from 2007–2018, most had neurodevelopmental disorders and/or other diagnoses during childhood and were referred ...
Mar 23, 2022
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For the 17% of American adults—or 36 million people—who live with hearing loss, navigating daily life can be an exhausting gauntlet of lost conversations. Older adults with hearing loss in particular often find noisy ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Mark Brodie was sitting behind his laptop in his home office, grading student papers for a mobile applications class he taught at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
Mar 11, 2022
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A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an essential role in how people use the sound of their voices to control how they want the words to sound, a new study ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Children and adolescents who stammer report elevated symptoms of anxiety compared with non-stammering peers, according to a new review of evidence led by UCL researchers.
Feb 3, 2022
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Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant than the acoustic attenuation caused by the masks.
Feb 1, 2022
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What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University ...
Jan 12, 2022
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The vocal sounds of humans—laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies—have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish. Researchers at UC San Francisco have ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Motherese is a form of simplified, exaggerated melodic speech that parents use to communicate with newborns and young toddlers. A horse becomes horsie; a dog becomes doggie; parents become mama and dada. The tendency to speak ...
Jan 3, 2022
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