Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...

For decades, scientists have known that subtle changes in speech can signal changes in the brain. Using so-called “filler words” such as “um” and “you know” or long pauses are sometimes a quirk of ...

According to researchers with Project CETI, a US non-profit working to understand sperm whales, the clicks known as "codas" ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A speech rate of less than 137 words per minute was tied to higher risk for overt hepatic encephalopathy. Speech ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool aims to detect signs of dementia, Alzheimer’s and other memory disorders by analyzing a person’s speech and language patterns. The system is called ...

Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables Neurons in the 'hand knob' area of the motor cortex become active during speech and could hold the key to restoring speech to people who have ...

Somewhere in the deep waters off Dominica, a female sperm whale fires a rapid burst of clicks toward her companions. The ...

The jackass penguin makes a noise like its namesake, but the way it uses sounds to convey messages is somewhat like the laws of human speech, says a new study published in February 2020 in the journal ...

Those of us who have cared for someone with Alzheimer's disease know all too well the pain of trying to communicate with someone who is losing their language abilities. People with the disease tend to ...