Rhythmic ability also corresponds to how precisely a child's
brain processes speech syllables, she adds.
«The way
the brain processes speech could serve as a predictor of early dementia.»
Not exact matches
So too empirical evidence about the
brain is more complex than the simple distinction about left and right processing (Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch, Left Brain, Right Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemisp
brain is more complex than the simple distinction about left and right
processing (Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch, Left
Brain, Right Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemisp
Brain, Right
Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of speech dominance in the left hemisp
Brain [W. H. Freeman, 1981]-RRB- Take, as a prime example, the location of
speech dominance in the left hemisphere.
When adults communicated face - to - face using infant - directed
speech, babies experience enhanced activity in
brain regions associated with
processing auditory messages.
For example, she studied
brain activity and
speech in a group of teenagers before, and three years after they entered high - school, and found music training in school significantly improved the auditory
processing of phenomes (
speech sounds) and had lasting effects on language skills.
U.S. Sen. John McCain returned to the Capitol to deliver a fiery
speech on the health care debate days after it was revealed he has
brain cancer — bailing out a president who derided him in the
process.
Brain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information oc
Brain drain One set of images focused on gray matter at the
brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where processing of speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information oc
brain's wrinkled surface, or cortex, where
processing of
speech, memory, motor control, emotion, sensory and other information occurs.
GOOD DOGS To see how dogs
process speech, these pooches were trained to undergo MRI
brain scans.
While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the
brain to
process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs»
brains process different aspects of human
speech in different hemispheres.
The
brain activity within the brainstem of these older adults demonstrated abnormally large
speech sound
processing within seven to 10 milliseconds of the signal hitting the ear, which could be a sign of greater communication problems in the future.
Within older adults who scored below the normal benchmark on a dementia screening test, but have no noticeable communication problems, scientists have discovered a new potential predictor of early dementia through abnormal functionality in regions of the
brain that
process speech (the brainstem and auditory cortex).
To understand
speech, as for other cognitive or sensory
processes, the
brain breaks down the information it receives to integrate it and give it a coherent meaning.
To precisely identify the neurobiological
processes at work when
speech is heard by a human
brain, Anne - Lise Giraud's team and colleagues at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) built a computerized model of neuronal microcircuits which replicates cerebral waves.
Sounds entering the right ear are
processed by the left side of the
brain, which controls
speech, language development, and portions of memory.
«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the
brain's
processing of
speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.
While the
brain hemispheres dogs use to
process meaning and intonation don't match what's seen in most humans, as was originally suggested, lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs»
brains process different aspects of human
speech in different hemispheres.
Research into how the
brain processes time, sound and movement has implications for understanding how humans listen to music and
speech, as well as for treating diseases like Parkinson's.
University of Illinois
speech and hearing science professor Fatima Husain, who led the study, said previous studies showed that tinnitus is associated with increased stress, anxiety, irritability and depression, all of which are affiliated with the
brain's emotional
processing systems.
Between this language formulation and execution is a
process called motor
speech programming — what the
brain does to select, organize, and package the instructions to the muscles of
speech, he said.
The present blood flow study adds significantly to the findings from that prior study and furthermore suggests that disturbances in the
speech processing areas of the
brain are likely of central importance as a cause of stuttering.
The researchers point out that this neurobiological similarity between sign and
speech, then, goes beyond basic similarities and into more intricate
processes — the same parts of the
brain are used at the same time for the specific computation of combining words or signs into more complex expressions.
«The
process of learning
speech requires the
brain to compare feedback of current vocal behavior to a memory of target vocal sounds,» Achiro said.
Those with impaired hearing also had significantly more shrinkage in particular regions, including the superior, middle and inferior temporal gyri,
brain structures responsible for
processing sound and
speech.
All participants completed a series of tests at the outset of the study to measure short - term memory,
brain processing speed, and the ability to hear and understand
speech in a noisy environment.
It may seem implausible that fetuses can listen to
speech within the womb, but the sound -
processing parts of their
brain become active in the last trimester of pregnancy, and sound carries fairly well through the mother's abdomen.
Heart of Smartness When you hold information like a phone number in your head, you are using short - term memory, a key tool that the
brain uses in
processing speech.
«You can fit people with hearing aids that amplify the sounds, but they still have trouble with
speech recognition because of
processes in the
brain.»
Now a team of researchers has identified the first gene directly involved in
speech, a discovery that may provide insights into how the
brain processes language, and how and when language arose.
Scientists began building neural networks in the 1970s in hopes of mimicking the
brain's ability to
process visual information, recognize
speech, and understand language.
and «And what eyes they were», it was used to build the first map of how the
brain processes the building blocks of
speech — distinct units of sound known as phonemes.
A map of the
brain regions that conduct the
process shows how each is carefully controlled — and how mistakes can slip into our
speech.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased
brain cortical activation in specific language
processing areas when listening to infant - directed
speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural
processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.
University of Illinois
speech and hearing science professor Fatima Husain and her colleagues found that tinnitus, a condition in which a person hears a ringing sound despite the lack of an actual sound, is associated with emotional
processing in a different part of the
brain than in those without the condition.
The user wears an electrode cap to detect
brain waves that are then translated into outputs such as word -
processing,
speech, e-mail, environmental control, or movements of robotic devices.
On the other hand, dysfunctional
speech - related neural
processing in the autistic
brain might also denote a deficiency of oscillation coordination, based on temporal integration deficits, that reaches beyond the auditory modality.
In the big picture, the findings «have broadened our understanding of how infants learn
speech sounds and shed some light on how the
brain may
process music and
speech sounds similarly,» she said.
Since the left hemisphere of the
brain controls learning and
processing information, a person with decreased left -
brain activity may have difficulty with reading and writing,
processing speech and language sounds, coordinating motor movements, and grasping simple math calculations.
This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between
brain processing of
speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading disorders, language disorders) who are in grades K - 3.
The definition continues: «Traumatic
brain injury applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem - solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psycho - social behavior; physical functions; information
processing; and
speech.
Brain scans have found that dogs use different parts of their
brains to
process speech, and can tell what words mean if we use the right tone
Cultural evolution is a
process of accumulating adaptive behavior in individual
brains and laboriously passing it on to each new generation by
speech (remember, durable information storage only became available in the last 5ky).
There are a variety of medications that can help
brain tumor patients using targeted destruction of presence of the tumor, such as motor skills,
speech, muscle strength and cognitive
processes.
Apple has been hiring a string of people well trained in
speech recognition, and is in the
process of constructing artificial neural networks to
process information in ways similar to the ways our
brains do, according to an article yesterday from Wired.