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The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain

Neuroscience NewsJuly 13, 2019

The speed of spoken word recognition is affected by how the speaker talks. Study finds sound waves from the voice effectively transmit information beyond the lexical meaning of words.... Read More...

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Researchers write ABCs of language disorder

Neuroscience NewsJuly 12, 2019

Researchers publish a paper aimed at children to explain developmental language disorder (DLD). Those with DLD struggle to learn and comprehend oral and written communication, despite being of normal or above normal intellectual ability.... Read More...

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How does playing with other children affect toddlers’ language learning?

Neuroscience NewsJuly 10, 2019

Toddlers who had more exposure to other children were better at associating new words to objects than those who had more exposure to adults alone.... Read More...

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

Neuroscience NewsJune 30, 2019

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.... Read More...

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Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity

Neuroscience NewsJune 29, 2019

By eleven months, infants hold language dependent expectations of a speaker's ethnicity. The study suggests babies make connections between languages based on the individuals they encounter in their environments. ... Read More...

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Music helps develop spoken language for the hearing impaired

Neuroscience NewsJune 28, 2019

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

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Eyes hold clues for treating severe autism more effectively

Neuroscience NewsJune 19, 2019

Tracking eye movement and pupil dilation in those with level 3 Autism helped assess true language abilities.... Read More...

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The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds ‘sound’ words predict psychosis

Neuroscience NewsJune 13, 2019

A new deep learning algorithm can predict those at risk of psychosis with 93% accuracy by examining the latent semantic content of an individual's speech.... Read More...

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Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Neuroscience NewsJune 10, 2019

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.... Read More...

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Fussy, hungry, or even in pain? Scientists create an AI tool to tell babies’ cries apart

Neuroscience NewsJune 6, 2019

A new deep learning algorithm, based on automatic speech recognition, is able to accurately identify features in an infant's cry and differentiate between normal versus abnormal cry signals. ... Read More...

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Infants with autism risk may be less likely to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns

Neuroscience NewsMay 25, 2019

Children at higher risk of ASD are less able to distinguish between differences in speech patterns. The findings suggest the biological mechanism of language development is less acquisitive in high-risk infants who are diagnosed with autism during toddlerhood.... Read More...

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Research rules out mental flexibility, attention as advantages for some bilingual children

Neuroscience NewsMay 21, 2019

While learning a second language has positive benefits for children, there is little evidence that bilingual children have more advanced executive function or improved attention over those who are monolingual.... Read More...

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The voice is key to making sense of the words in our brain

Researchers write ABCs of language disorder

How does playing with other children affect toddlers’ language learning?

Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity

Music helps develop spoken language for the hearing impaired

Eyes hold clues for treating severe autism more effectively

The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds ‘sound’ words predict psychosis

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Fussy, hungry, or even in pain? Scientists create an AI tool to tell babies’ cries apart

Infants with autism risk may be less likely to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns

Research rules out mental flexibility, attention as advantages for some bilingual children