"Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice ...

More information: Noémie te Rietmolen et al, Moving rhythmically can facilitate naturalistic speech perception in a noisy environment, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025).

Speech rhythms and perception "We asked native Dutch participants to listen to Dutch sentences that suddenly changed in speech rates: the beginning of the sentence was either compressed or ...

Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain's auditory regions similarly to heard speech, according to a new University of Michigan report that looked at how vision supports verbal perception.

In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers explored the effect of maternal language on fetal speech perception. Maternal speech exposure during ...

The presence of amblyopia during early childhood may lead to impaired visual-auditory speech integration and alterations in speech perception, according to a study published online September 11 in ...