The way that speech processing differs from the processing of other sounds has long been a major open question in human neuroscience. Researchers have endeavored to answer this by investigating brain ...

It turns out to depend on what is being studied, found a recent study. Researchers from four countries (Finland, Hungary, Germany, and France) measured EEG-based brain responses for non-speech and ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has upended a long-held assumption in neuroscience about how the brain organizes the sounds of speech. For over 150 years, Broca’s area—a ...

New parents are always thrilled when their offspring finally speaks its first words - usually at the age of 12 to 18 months. What parents often don't know: the regions of the brain that recognize and ...

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated ...

Bark is a universal text-to-audio model that can not only create realistic speech, it can incorporate music, background noises, and sound effects. It can even include non-speech sounds like laughter, ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (StudyFinds.org) – Can your dog understand the difference between English and Spanish? The answer is likely yes! A new study reveals a dog’s brain can detect the different speech ...