Different ways of looking at structural asymmetry show parallel effects on processing of speech sounds related to dyslexia. Researchers led by Mark Eckert at the…
Findings Could Help Treat Speech Problems A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an…
Stuttering starts at speech initiation, not due to impaired motor skills. Theory suggests anomalies in the brain’s initiation circuit cause stuttering. About one in 20…
Voices of reason? Study links acoustic correlations, gender to vocal appeal. What makes a voice attractive? The question is the subject of broad interest, with…
Researchers provide the first physiological evidence that a foundational center of the brain influences how sound is processed, identify a previously unknown neural circuit. For…
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF…
The study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between us and a speechless species. Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower,…
Roughly, one in a hundred adults has problems with speaking fluently. Not much is known about the causes of persistent developmental stuttering, which is the…
New genomics research from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders. Think that sparrow whistling…
When a beluga’s caretakers heard noises that sounded like garbled phrases emanating from its enclosure, they realized that the whale might be imitating the voices…
The sounds that animals make are determined by their genes, but a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour shows that pygmy goats (Capra…
