Speech Expectations May Shape Speech Patterns
The study reports the results of two experiments testing how participants’ pronunciations of certain words changed after hearing somebody with a strong southern US accent.
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Brain Areas Work Together During Language Tasks
It was already known that the inferior parietal lobe (IPL) is one of these regions in the human brain. Nevertheless, it was unclear how this area is able to process such very different functions.
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Back to Basics: Hearing Aids and the 3 PM Crash
Since the beginning of my audiology career I have heard many of my hard-of-hearing patients comment that at around 3 PM they hit the wall and need a nap.
National Science Foundation Funds Study of Vision in Deaf Children
The NSF funded RIT/NTID with a $450K grant for a longitudinal study of vision in deaf children. The scientists will study how hearing levels and early-language experience influence deaf children’s visual skills.
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Music Training Hones Hearing, Language Skills in Teens
High school music education was shown to heighten a teen’s sensitivity to sound details and increase the ability to learn other skills.
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Bird Study Uncovers Origins of Human Language
A new bird study of the chestnut-crowned babbler shows that stringing together meaningless sounds to create signals and structure phonemes is not unique to humans, as previously thought.
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Bilingual Brains May Be Better at Processing Language and Cognitive Information
Being bilingual or speaking multiple languages routinely exercises the brain, making it better at processing auditory stimuli and cognitive information. The study suggests that a bilingual brain is constantly activating both languages and choosing which language to use and which to ignore.
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Vanderbilt Researchers Find Associations Between Grammar and Musical Rhythm
Vanderbilt University researchers have found that a child’s capacity for understanding musical rhythm is related to the capacity for understanding grammar.
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Finding Thoughts in Speech
For the first time, neuroscientists have discovered how different thoughts are reflected in neuronal activity during natural conversations.
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Gestures Research Suggests Language Instinct in Young Children
Young children instinctively use a “language-like” structure to communicate through gestures, according to psychologists.
Read MoreWired for Listening: Language Universals Found at Birth
Are infants born with knowledge about what human words sound like? Are infants biased to consider certain sound sequences as more word-like than others? A new study suggests that, indeed, this is the case.
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Why Auditory Pitch and Spatial Elevation Get High Together: Did Shape of Ear Evolved to Match Natural Acoustics?
Researchers uncover why there is a mapping between pitch and elevation.
Read MoreIndustry People
A look at some of the people making headlines in the hearing industry.
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