A new study published in Nature this week caught individual human brain cells in the act of building sentences, in real time, during live conversation.

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The research offers hope for those who have lost the ability ...

About 2 million Americans live with aphasia. The challenge is harder for bilingual people. A Boston University researcher thinks AI can help clinicians make smarter decisions on where to start.

Aphasia is a neurological disorder ...

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Researchers at Northwestern, the University of Pittsburgh, and UW-Madison found that Heschl's gyrus, long considered a basic relay station, encodes the rise and fall of pitch as significant linguistic information. That's why ...

Your brain does something remarkable when you talk: it uses your voice as a live GPS, constantly adjusting your tongue’s movements to make speech smooth and accurate.

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Researchers have kinematic evidence that ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge solved a vexing problem: how to help stroke survivors communicate fluently without implanting brain electrodes. Their solution? A wearable choker called Revoice that reads throat vibrations and turns silently ...