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A newborn lies in the maternity ward of the Lens hospital, northern France. A study of crying mice could help explain some building blocks of human infant cries and adult speech.

What crying baby mice could teach us about human speech

Jan 07, 2022
Scientists have found a cluster of rhythmic brain cells in newborn mice that may explain why spoken languages around the world share a common tempo.
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Illustration showing placement of the eCOG electrode on the participant's speech motor cortex and the head stages used to connect the electrode to the computer.

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

Jul 14, 2021
A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.
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Your brain uses the left side to make sense of lyrics and the right side for a song's melody.

How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music

Feb 27, 2020
Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information.
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Decoded Brain Signals Could Give Voiceless People A Way To Talk

Apr 24, 2019
Scientists have found a way to transform electrical signals in the brain into intelligible speech. The advance may help people paralyzed by a stroke or disease, but the technology is experimental.
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How do we make sense of all that chatter?

How People Learned To Recognize Monkey Calls Reveals How We All Make Sense Of Sound

Apr 18, 2018
A brain imaging study of grown-ups hints at how children learn that "dog" and "fog" have different meanings, even though they sound so much alike.
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A female orca named Wikie swims with a calf in 2011 at Marineland in Antibes, France. Wikie was the central animal in a study, published Wednesday, about orcas' ability to imitate human speech.

Whale Hello: Orcas Can Imitate Human Speech, Researchers Find

Jan 31, 2018
A killer whale attempting to say "hello" or "Amy" did not sound as clear as, say, a parrot. But scientists found that the whales could repeat human vocalizations with some success.
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