Results of a study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain’s hearing circuits. …read more Source:: Science
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Synthetic speech generated from brain recordings
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•A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract — an anatomically detailed computer simulation including the …read more Source:: Science
Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech
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•In a scientific first, neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech. This breakthrough, which harnesses the power of speech synthesizers and artificial intelligence, could lead …read more Source:: Science
Study challenges evolution of FOXP2 as human-specific language gene
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•FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a new paper, researchers challenge …read more Source:: Science
Neuroscientists discover a brain signal that indicates whether speech has been understood
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•The presence or absence of a unique brain signal after a listener has heard some speech indicates whether or not that listener has understood what has been said. The discovery …read more Source:: Science