No one could blame Carnegie Mellon University students Akhil Padmanabha and Janavi Gupta if they were a bit anxious this past August as they traveled to the Bay Area home of Henry and Jane Evans.
Feb 27, 2024
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A new study led by Dr. Paddy Ross of the Durham University Psychology Department has shown that music can significantly influence emotion recognition in children.
Feb 6, 2023
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To recognize a famous voice, human brains use the same center that lights up when the speaker's face is presented, finds a neuroscience study where participants were asked to identify U.S. presidents.
Jan 3, 2023
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"Hey there. Allow me to introduce you to your new companion, Orbit, a robot you can play with and listen to. Not only can Orbit hear you, they can feel you too."
Sep 23, 2022
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Specific parts of the brain recognize complex cues in human vocal sounds that do not involve speech, such as crying, coughing or gasping—found researchers from the University of Pittsburgh.
Jul 28, 2022
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With an aging population, there is an increasing need for a smart home to be able to monitor health and behavior with a view to allowing people to continue to live in their homes independently. Research published in the International ...
Feb 5, 2020
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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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Amazon recently announced that its language assistant Alexa is now able to recognise voices. What is celebrated as a tech revolution is an everyday process for our brain. So far, it has been unclear as to which areas of the ...
Dec 22, 2017
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Finding a job is difficult for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and individuals with severe mental illness, who have high unemployment rates even though many want to work.
Jul 1, 2015
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Technology capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease long before its symptoms appear won a coveted honor for innovation at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.
Mar 13, 2013
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