Neuroscience
To appreciate music, the human brain listens and learns to predict
Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery.
Feb 19, 2024
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News tagged with human speech
Neuroscience
Neural activity study shows the brain processes direct speech and its echo separately
Echoes can make speech harder to understand, and tuning out echoes in an audio recording is a notoriously difficulty engineering problem. The human brain, however, appears to solve the problem successfully by separating the ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The sound of emotional prosody: A research review
People talk to share ideas, facts, and feelings. When we listen to someone speaking, it's not just about the words they say. The way they sound can also tell us a lot—for example, about the age, size, or even mood of the ...
Jan 18, 2024
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Neuroscience
Study unveils similarities between the auditory pathway and deep learning models for processing speech
The human auditory pathway is a highly sophisticated biological system that includes both physical structures and brain regions specialized in the perception and processing of sounds. The sounds that humans pick up through ...
Neuroscience
Researchers reconstruct speech from brain activity, illuminating complex neural processes
Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied. Separating out the complex web of neural regions controlling precise muscle movement in the mouth, jaw and tongue with ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Health informatics
Can AI help hospitals spot patients in need of extra non-medical assistance?
In the rush to harness artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to make care more efficient at hospitals nationwide, a new study points to another possible use: identifying patients with non-medical needs that could ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Neuroscience
The role of the bilateral motor cortices in speech perception
Understanding how the motor cortex is involved in active inference of speech perception and decisions is important to understanding human language intelligence, which may inspire the next generation of AI. However, three ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Biomedical technology
Can computers speak for us?
In India, there's a popular saying among locals: "Kos-kos par badle paani, chaar kos par baani." The language spoken in India changes every few kilometers, just like the taste of the water.
Feb 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Using deep learning to detect depression from speech
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have achieved promising results on numerous tasks and could soon assist professionals in various settings. In recent years, computer scientists have been exploring the potential of these ...
Neuroscience
Our brains 'time-stamp' sounds to process the words we hear
Our brains "time-stamp" the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear, shows a new study by a team of psychology and linguistics researchers. Its findings, which appear in the journal ...
Nov 7, 2022
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