Song birds can be trained to understand non-language aspects of human speech, such as pitch, volume and duration of syllables. This is according to a study that shows zebra finches are even more ...

Variation in pitch, amplitude and rhythm adds crucial paralinguistic information to human speech. Such prosodic cues can reveal information about the meaning or emphasis of a sentence or the emotional ...

Human everyday communication is spoken rather than written, but the overwhelming majority of psycholinguistic research underlying models of sentence processing is still based on reading rather than ...

A new study from Northwestern University’s School of Communication, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified an unexpected role for a brain region long ...