Advanced brain recording techniques provide a detailed map of how people think about what words they want to say and then speak them aloud, researchers report. Photo by Mitrey/Pixabay Advanced brain ...

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Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

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Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

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Advanced brain recording techniques have revealed how neurons in the human brain work together to produce speech. The recordings provide a detailed map of how people think about what words they want ...