When you're suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to be re-tuning to recognize speech that was previously incomprehensible.
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Changing the tune of hospital medical devices could improve public health, according to researchers at McMaster University and Vanderbilt University.
Feb 15, 2023
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,Many parents will feel a twinge of concern if their five-year-old can't sleep without his dummy or their teenager refuses to throw out the tattered blanket she's had since she was a baby. The topic of comfort objects is ...
Feb 15, 2018
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A study in patients with epilepsy is helping researchers understand how the brain manages the task of learning a new language while retaining our mother tongue. The study, by neuroscientists at UC San Francisco, sheds light ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers with the University of British Columbia have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' ...
Oct 12, 2015
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The more baby talk words that infants are exposed to the quicker they grasp language, a study suggests.
Aug 1, 2018
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Non-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to Canadian researchers.
Apr 2, 2013
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An automated speech analysis program correctly differentiated between at-risk young people who developed psychosis over a two-and-a-half year period and those who did not. In a proof-of-principle study, researchers at Columbia ...
Aug 26, 2015
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Temperatures above or below a feel-good window of 12–21 degrees Celsius (54–70 °F) are linked to a marked rise in aggressive online behavior across the U.S., a new study finds. Analyzing billions of tweets posted on ...
Sep 7, 2022
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(Medical Xpress) -- New research developed by The University of Queensland is set to change the future treatment of speech problems associated with stroke and Parkinson's disease.
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