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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·June 26, 2020·3 min read

Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain

People with dyslexia experience difficulties when acoustic variation was added to speech sounds. In the absence of the variation, neural speech sound processing was consistent between dyslexic and typical readers. Difficulties in detecting linguistically relevant information during acoustic variation in speech may contribute to a dyslexic person's deficits in forming native language phoneme representations during infancy.

Featured Psychology

·April 9, 2018·4 min read

Spoken Language Reveals How People Develop and Mature

A new study explores how personality development and ego may be reflected in our everyday language. Researchers hope their findings will shed light on moral, social and cognitive development.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 22, 2017·5 min read

How Machine Learning May Change Jobs

Despite a lot of public worry that the AI revolution is going to impact the workforce, researchers report this is likely not to be the case. However, they note, the introduction to machine learning in the workforce could transform the economy as much as the introduction of the steam engine and other technologies did in the past.

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Featured Neuroscience

·December 2, 2017·5 min read

Why Do We See Similarities Across Languages? The Brain May Be Responsible

Researchers report we may see similarities between different languages as a result of the brain's preference for efficient information processing.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 12, 2017·5 min read

How Neural Networks Think

Researchers have developed a new technique that works as an automatic translator, shedding light on how AI and neural networks are able to process language.