Aspects of the "cocktail party effect" may emerge before cognitive decline is detected ...

A study in older adults has found that difficulty understanding speech in background noise was associated with faster ...

We use both sides of our brain for speech, a finding by researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center that alters previous conceptions about neurological activity. The results, ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that ...

Hearing impairment selectively disrupts neural tracking of speech at both short and long temporal scales during multi-speaker listening, while preserving intermediate linguistic processing.

Speech and language scientists have known for some time that age impacts speech perception. Neuroscientists have also come to understand how functional brain differences (or how the brain executes ...

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