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·July 30, 2019·8 min read

Team IDs Spoken Words and Phrases in Real Time from Brain’s Speech Signals

Using ECoG and machine learning, researchers decoded spoken words and phrases in real-time from brain signals that control speech. The technology could eventually be used to help those who have lost vocal control to regain their voice.

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·July 26, 2019·5 min read

The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do

Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.

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·July 13, 2019·4 min read

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

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.

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·July 12, 2019·3 min read

Researchers write ABCs of language disorder

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.

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·July 10, 2019·2 min read

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

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.

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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 29, 2019·3 min read

Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity

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.

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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 19, 2019·5 min read

Eyes hold clues for treating severe autism more effectively

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

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·June 13, 2019·5 min read

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

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.

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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 6, 2019·3 min read

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

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.