Cardiology
Forty-seven-year-old relearned to walk, talk and count after stroke
Chris Monaghan woke up one morning and tried to get out of bed. She couldn't.
May 3, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Touch influences how infants learn language
(Medical Xpress)—Tickling a baby's toes may be cute but it's also possible that those touches could help babies learn the words in their language. Research from Purdue University shows that a caregiver's touch could help ...
Apr 23, 2014
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Neuroscience
Neural prosthesis uses brain activity to decode speech
Researchers from HSE University and the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry have developed a machine learning model that can predict the word about to be uttered by a subject, based on their neural activity ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
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.
Oct 30, 2012
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Neuroscience
Novel brainstem circuit gives rise to the rhythms of vocalization
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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Neuroscience
Study explores how the sounds going into our ears become the words going through our brains
You're walking along a busy city street. All around you are the sounds of subway trains, traffic, and music coming from storefronts. Suddenly, you realize one of the sounds you're hearing is someone speaking, and that you ...
Nov 29, 2018
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Neuroscience
Singing after stroke? Why rhythm and formulaic phrases may be more important than melody
After a left-sided stroke, many individuals suffer from serious speech disorders but are often able to sing complete texts relatively fluently. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
Sep 22, 2011
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Neuroscience
'Neuroprosthesis' restores words to man with paralysis
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a "speech neuroprosthesis" that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly ...
Jul 15, 2021
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Neuroscience
Misophonia is more than just hating the sound of chewing
Researchers for the first time have identified the parts of the brain involved in a less-commonly studied trigger of misophonia, a condition associated with an extreme aversion to certain sounds.
Aug 17, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorders
AI detects autism speech patterns across different languages
A new study led by Northwestern University researchers used machine learning—a branch of artificial intelligence—to identify speech patterns in children with autism that were consistent between English and Cantonese, ...
Jun 15, 2022
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