Remarkable new insights into the pathology of Usher syndrome
Usher syndrome 1G protein SANS regulates the splicing of genes, particularly those linked to Usher syndromeCredit: ill./©: Uwe Wolfrum Human ...
Tag: Hearing/Speech
Personalized soundscape could help people with dementia with time, place recognition
Acoustical environments can prevent, reduce behavioral and psychological symptomsCredit: Arezoo Talebzadeh, Ghent University MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9, 2021 -- Designing ...
Balancing speech intelligibility, face covering effectiveness in classrooms
Though masks are necessary for curbing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, their impacts on teachers' speech intelligibility may affect ...
Mouse pups’ cries give clues about autism spectrum disorder
Machine learning is being applied to gauge which vocalizations are predictive of ASDCredit: The University of Texas Health Science Center ...
Superoxide produced in the cochlea of inner ears causes acquired hearing loss
-Breakthrough discovery will pave the way for the development of the world's first pharmacological interventions against hearing loss-Credit: Takehiko Ueyama ...
No lasting benefit to tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2021 - There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young ...
Composing thoughts: Mental handwriting produces brain activity turned into text
NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded project could help people with paralysis to communicateCredit: Image courtesy of Shenoy lab & Erika Woodrum (artist) ...
Research results challenge a decades-old mechanism of how we hear sounds
Credit: Sanna Hedin Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair ...
Cognitive neuroscience could pave the way for emotionally intelligent robots
Researchers propose a novel auditory perception based feature for extracting emotions from human speech using neural networksCredit: Masashi Unoki Ishikawa, ...
Better hearing with optical cochlear implants
Credit: Daniel Keppeler, UMG Understanding spoken words, developing normal speech - cochlear implants enable people with profound hearing impairment to ...
Sounds familiar: A speaker identity-controllable framework for machine speech translation
Researchers propose a deep learning-based model for mimicking and continuously modifying speaker voice identity during speech translationCredit: Masato Akagi Ishikawa, ...
Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds?
Decoding the spectral and temporal fine structure of soundCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been ...
Biomedical sciences researcher gets $2.3 million grant to study inflammation in infectious diseases
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Jian-Dong Li, professor and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, ...
Scientists from Russia and Germany measured how the brain learn new words
Credit: Urfu / Nadezhda Pavlova. Researchers from University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia) have developed ...