Summary: A new speech prosthetic offers hope for those with speech-impairing neurological disorders. By converting brain signals into speech using high-density sensors and machine learning, the technology represents a significant advancement over current slower communication aids. Though still in early stages, the device has achieved a 40% accuracy in decoding spoken data during limited trials...
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New understanding of how the brain processes and stores words we hear
by Georgetown University Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say the brain’s auditory lexicon, a catalog of verbal language, is actually located in the front of the primary auditory cortex, not in back of it—a finding that upends a century-long understanding of this area of the brain. The new understanding matters...
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Watch Your Words (To Ease Pain)
The right words from a doctor or nurse can reduce a patient’s pain, promote healing and calmness, and even encourage a patient to take medications properly. The prototype wristwatch here, called CommSense, offers meaningful, real-time ways to improve how doctors and nurses talk with their patients. Illustration by Sanjay Suchak, University of Virginia Communications But clinicians’...
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Sounds and words are processed separately and simultaneously in the brain
by Cell Press Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that auditory and speech processing occur in parallel, contradicting a long-held theory that the brain processed acoustic information then transformed it...