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.... Read More...
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Mandarin Chinese Could Help Us Understand How Infants Learn English
A new study considers how lexical tones can affect an infant's ability to associated words with objects.... Read More...
‘Music of Speech’ Linked to Brain Area Unique to Humans
Researchers reveal the area of the brain that controls our voice box, allowing us to alter the pitch of our speech. The insight could pave the way for advancing neuroprosthetics to allow people who can't speak, to express themselves in a naturalistic way.... Read More...
Pitch Imperfect? How the Brain Decodes Pitch May Improve Cochlear Implants
A new study provides further evidence of the place code theory of pitch perception and may help with the development of better cochlear implants.... Read More...
How the Human Brain Detects the ‘Music’ of Speech
Researchers at UCSF discover neurons in the superior temporal gyrus change activity depending on where emphasis falls in a sentence.... Read More...
Singing Can Provide Understanding of Relationship Between Perceiving and Doing
Researchers embark on new research in order to better understand the relationship between sensorimotor action and perception.... Read More...
Are There Differences in How Speakers of Other Languages Hear Music?
Researchers investigate whether speaking a different native language has an effect on how we hear music.... Read More...
Singing In the Brain: Songbirds’ Vocal Muscles Work Like Humans When Singing
A new study reports the vocal muscles of Bengalese finches change function to help produce different parameters of sounds, much like an opera singer.... Read More...
Humans Not Alone in How We Perceive Melodic Pitch
Marmosets share a number of the same auditory features as humans, suggesting human components of pitch perception evolved much earlier than previously thought, a new study reports.... Read More...
It’s All In The Tone
A new study reports on neural communication pathways for prosody.... Read More...
New Strategy Lets Cochlear Implant Users Hear Music
Researchers have developed a new way of processing signals in cochlear implants to help users hear music better.... Read More...