Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages, according to a new study by Hungarian researchers at the Department of Ethology, ...

Understanding the functional anatomy of speech perception has been a topic of intense investigation for more than 130 years, and interest in the basis of speech and language dates back to the earliest ...

A mother sings a lullaby to her baby. When she talks to her child she modifies the pitch of her voice. What the baby “understands” is the melody and the emotions that this expresses. Daniela Sammler, ...

Following a stroke, some people experience a language disorder that hinders their ability to process speech sounds. How do ...

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower ...

Despite not being able to talk, dogs process speech in the same way as humans do, according to a new study. Both dogs and human brains separately process the intonation – how a voice rises and falls – ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --For thousands of years, humans have been talking to dogs. Through the years, dozens of studies have confirmed what many dog owners already knew, that dogs are capable of understanding ...

Our brains process foreign-accented speech with better real-time accuracy if we can identify the accent we hear, according to a team of neurolinguists. Our brains process foreign-accented speech with ...