Hearing through your fingers: Device that converts speech
A novel study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience provides the first evidence that a...
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Do you hear what I hear? Infants with autism risk may be less able to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns, study suggests
A new study by Columbia University researchers found that infants at high risk for autism...
Chatterbox parents may boost tots’ intelligence: Young children who are exposed to large amounts of adult speech tend to have better cognitive skills
Researchers have found that young children who are exposed to large amounts of adult speech...
Sacrificing accuracy to see the big picture: Our ability to detect patterns might stem, in part, from brain’s desire to represent things in simplest way possible
During their first year of life, infants can recognize patterned sound sequences. As we grow,...
Mother’s behavioral corrections tune infant’s brain to angry tone: Maternal interactions may help shape the same brain region adults use for vocal emotion processing
The same brain network that adults use when they hear angry vocalizations is at work...
Study explores infant body position and learning
A developmental psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, has completed a study that is...
Discovery of first genetic variants associated with meaning in life
For the first time, locations on the human genome have been identified that can explain...
Unlocking the secret of how the brain encodes speech: Progress toward decoding speech to help completely paralyzed people like Stephen Hawking talk again
People like the late Stephen Hawking can think about what they want to say, but...
A little labeling goes a long way: Infants can use a few labeled examples to spark the acquisition of object categories
Even before infants begin to speak, hearing language promotes object categorization. Hearing the same label,...
Novel strategy shows promise for earlier detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Finding an effective way to identify people with mild cognitive impairment who are most likely...