Voice screening app delivers rapid results for Parkinson's and severe COVID
A new screening test app could help advance the early detection of Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19, improving the management of these illnesses.
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A new screening test app could help advance the early detection of Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19, improving the management of these illnesses.
Oct 5, 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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Researchers working at the Department of Public Health, McCann Healthcare Worldwide Japan Inc., has created three algorithms that can be used to detect Alzheimer's in patients as they engage in phone conversations. The group ...
Face masks are essential for health professionals and others to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, however, mask-wearing has a significant impact on communication.
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When people move their hands and arms while using their voices, listeners are able to hear it. Even without seeing the messenger, we can pick up each other's body language. Wim Pouw of the Donders Institute of Radboud University ...
May 13, 2020
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Teenagers are less likely to cooperate and put effort into their mother's requests when they are said in a controlling tone of voice, researchers have found.
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Familiar voices are easier to understand and this advantage holds even if when we aren't able to identify who those familiar voices belong to, according to research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for ...
Oct 1, 2018
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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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"You're rubbish. You're rubbish. You're a waste of space." The computer avatar pulls no punches as it lays into the young woman, a schizophrenia sufferer, facing the screen.
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Scientists have discovered that a group of neurons in the brain's auditory stem help us to tune into specific conversations in a crowded room.
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