Understanding the interplay between speech rate and perception is fundamental to unraveling how listeners decode continuous spoken language. Variations in speech tempo not only influence the ...

Speech perception is a multifaceted process in which the auditory system integrates acoustic signals with contextual influences to reliably extract linguistic content. This overview highlights the ...

New research challenges the assumption that difficulty hearing in noisy places is always linked to hearing loss.

Making music is good for your brain. There was already plenty of evidence for the effect of music on memory, but now a new study found another way in which musicians are at an advantage. They showed ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of ...

In 1882, Mr. L, a teacher and journalist, suffered a stroke, his second. His first attack, five years earlier, had been mild, causing some language problems involving paraphasias, difficulty selecting ...

RIT audio engineering professor awarded NIH funding to improve auditory decoding technologies and how the brain helps censor ...