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·June 30, 2019·4 min read

Screams contain a ‘calling card’ for the vocalizer’s identity

Listeners can correctly identify whether pairs of screams originate from the same person or two different people. Findings suggest human screams convey a level of individual identity and shed new light on their evolutionary origin.

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·June 28, 2019·2 min read

Music helps develop spoken language for the hearing impaired

Music may help children with hearing impairments to develop spoken language skills.

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·June 20, 2019·4 min read

Upbeat music can sweeten tough exercise

Listening to upbeat music while embarking on high-intensity exercise boost feelings of pleasure and motivation, even in those who are adverse to exercise.

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·June 18, 2019·3 min read

Reducing brain inflammation could treat tinnitus and other hearing loss-related disorders

Rodent study reveals noise-induced hearing loss is associated with elevated expression of proinflammatory cytokines and microglia activation in the primary auditory cortex. Pharmacologically depleting microglia helps prevent tinnitus in mice with noise-induced hearing loss.

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·June 10, 2019·4 min read

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Study of macaque monkeys reveals speech and music may have shaped the human brain's auditory networks. Researchers found specific areas of the human brain have a stronger preference for pitch than that of primates, raising the possibility certain sounds, which are embedded in music and speech, may have shaped the organization of our brains.

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·June 3, 2019·5 min read

Hearing through your fingers: Device that converts speech

A newly developed audio-to-tactile sensory substitution device provides immediate and robust improvements in speech recognition without prior training for those with hearing impairments.

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·May 15, 2019·5 min read

Coherent? Voice disorders significantly affect listeners, too

Researchers investigate new strategies to help listeners better understand those with voice disorders.

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·May 15, 2019·5 min read

Experimental brain-controlled hearing aid decodes, identifies who you want to hear

A new auditory attention decoding device allows people to selectively hear specific people in crowded environments.

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·May 15, 2019·2 min read

Scientists suss out the secrets of human screams

While screams contain certain shared acoustic factors, such as pitch and roughness, they differ in terms of emotional context.

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·May 6, 2019·5 min read

AI can detect depression in a child’s speech

An auditory-based machine learning algorithm was able to identify children diagnosed with depression and anxiety with 80% accuracy after analyzing recordings of their speech. The algorithm identified eight audio features that signify a higher risk of depression. Of these, a lower pitch of voice, repeatable speech inflections and a higher pitch response to surprise stimuli, were more indicative of depression. Researchers hope to develop a smartphone app that records and analyzes speech immediately, helping to better detect children at risk of internalizing disorders.

This shows the networks implicated in facial recognition in the brain

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·May 4, 2019·3 min read

Widespread brain connections enable face recognition

The connectivity between the face processing network and other networks associated with the processing of visual, social and auditory cues help predict how well we remember a familiar face.