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Functional Improvements of Speech, Feeding, and Sleep After Lingual Frenectomy Tongue-Tie Release: A Prospective Cohort Study

NewsemiaMay 29, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 29, 2020018

Clinical Pediatrics, Ahead of Print. Recent studies suggest that speech, solid feeding, and sleep difficulties may be linked to restricted tongue function. Children with tongue...

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Novel medical devices can help repair cognitive functions

NewsemiaMay 28, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 28, 202009

One of the most invalidating neuropsychological conditions is the impossibility to communicate with others. Source link...

Pediatrics

Chimpanzees help trace the evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors

NewsemiaMay 27, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 27, 202003

One of the most promising theories for the evolution of human speech has finally received support from chimpanzee communication. Source link...

Pediatrics

New genes linked to severe childhood speech disorder

NewsemiaMay 20, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 20, 202003

An international study has discovered nine new genes linked to the most severe type of childhood speech disorder, apraxia. Source link...

Neurology

Severe childhood speech disorder: Gene discovery highlights transcriptional dysregulation

NewsemiaMay 18, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 18, 202004

Objective Determining the genetic basis of speech disorders provides insight into the neurobiology of human communication. Despite intensive investigation over the past 2 decades, the...

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Facebook’s AI for Hate Speech Improves. How Much Is Unclear

NewsemiaMay 18, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 18, 202002

FACEBOOK’S ALGORITHMS FOR detecting hate speech are working harder than ever. If only we knew how good they are at their jobs. Tuesday the social network reported a...

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The dreaming brain suppresses information from the outside world

NewsemiaMay 17, 2020

by NewsemiaMay 17, 202004

Scientists from the CNRS and the ENS-PSL in France and Monash University in Australia have shown that the brain suppresses information from the outside world,...

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Scientists discover an earlier origin to human language pathway in the brain

NewsemiaApril 20, 2020

by NewsemiaApril 20, 202003

Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years....

Pediatrics

Analyzing patients shortly after stroke can help link brain regions to speech functions

NewsemiaApril 2, 2020

by NewsemiaApril 2, 202004

New research shows analyzing the brains of stroke victims just days after the stroke allows researchers to link various speech functions to different parts of...

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New technology that “videos” brain activity could one day enhance prosthetics

NewsemiaMarch 20, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 20, 2020022

Researchers have made a brain-machine interface that links the brain to a silicon chip that“films” neural electrical activity. Source link...

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Analyzing speech in both time and space: Generalized additive mixed models can uncover systematic patterns of variation in vocal tract shape in real-time MRI

NewsemiaMarch 20, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 20, 2020011

Carignan, C; Hoole, P; Kunay, E; Pouplier, M; Joseph, A; Voit, D; Frahm, J; Carignan, C; Hoole, P; Kunay, E; Pouplier, M; Joseph, A; Voit,...

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Research: How Speech Patterns Lead to Hiring Bias

NewsemiaMarch 14, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 14, 2020042

We infer people’s social class within seconds of hearing them speak. Source link...

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Developmental trajectories of control of verbal and non-verbal interference in speech comprehension in monolingual and multilingual children

NewsemiaMarch 13, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 13, 2020012

Filippi, R; Ceccolini, A; Periche-Tomas, E; Papageorgiou, A; Bright, P; (2020) Developmental trajectories of control of verbal and non-verbal interference in speech comprehension in monolingual...

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Why Trump’s coronavirus speech, designed to calm, deepened panic

NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020032

President Donald Trump’s televised address on Wednesday was clearly aimed at calming the U.S. public, as well as the stock market, about the novel coronavirus...

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Speech spoken by familiar people is more resistant to interference by linguistically similar speech

NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 12, 2020033

Holmes, E; Johnsrude, IS; (2020) Speech spoken by familiar people is more resistant to interference by linguistically similar speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory,...

Neurology

Speech production differences in English and Italian speakers with nonfluent variant PPA

NewsemiaMarch 10, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 10, 202005

Objective To understand whether the clinical phenotype of nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) could present differences depending on the patient’s native language. Methods In this...

Neurology

Study shows protective effect of bilingualism against dementia

NewsemiaMarch 4, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 4, 2020026

The conclusions of a study carried out by Víctor Costumero, as the first author, Marco Calabria and Albert Costa (died in 2018), members of the...

Biology

Asymmetric sampling in human auditory cortex reveals spectral processing hierarchy

NewsemiaMarch 3, 2020

by NewsemiaMarch 3, 202008

by Jérémy Giroud, Agnès Trébuchon, Daniele Schön, Patrick Marquis, Catherine Liegeois-Chauvel, David Poeppel, Benjamin Morillon Speech perception is mediated by both left and right auditory...

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Latest research on physics of the brain to be presented at 2020 APS March Meeting

NewsemiaFebruary 29, 2020

by NewsemiaFebruary 29, 2020030

Understanding the brain has been one of science’s greatest challenges. Each discovery only seems to raise countless other questions about the inner workings of this...

Pediatrics

Using a cappella to explain speech and music specialization

NewsemiaFebruary 28, 2020

by NewsemiaFebruary 28, 2020047

Speech and music are two fundamentally human activities that are decoded in different brain hemispheres. A new study used a unique approach to reveal why...