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The last Neanderthals may have gone extinct in their last stronghold in Gibraltar 24,000 years ago, but we still can hear their voice. At least, a computer made a variant of it, in an attempt of a team led by Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, as signaled by New Scientist... |
17 April 2008
05:19 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of the most important traits that differentiate us from animals. It relies on our large brains, however it is not a question of size but of brain wiring, as showed by a new research published in "Nature Neuroscience." Since the 19th century, the Broca nucleus in the frontal cortex and ... |
27 March 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Until a machine will read your thoughts, a first step has been made: New Scientists signals the development of a neckband that decodes your nerve signals into speech. For the first time, you could make a phone call without opening your mouth.A trained individual can transmit motor messages to its vocal cords without ... |
19 March 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelmi... |
14 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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The human brain has a nucleus that differentiates human speech from background sounds. A new research published in "Nature Neuroscience" shows that monkeys too have such a nucleus that reacts selectively to the voices of other monkeys. This is a step further on understanding the neural basis of voice recognition and ... |
13 February 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Speech is perhaps what makes us different from apes. They can have some degree of logics, but this is boosted to astronomic values in humans by speech. Speech is made of two sets of symbols: words and grammar, rules through which words are combined in phrases expressing precise links between objects and events. "John... |
12 January 2008
07:53 GMT |
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The complex human speech is perhaps the main trait that puts us apart from apes. For example, chimps have the same mental addition ability like humans, while speech allows humans counting and advanced calculations.Human speech have been linked to two brain nuclei controlling the language (articulating control, data s... |
20 December 2007
05:35 GMT |
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The left cortical hemisphere realizes this through an acoustical technique named "simultaneous masking", which enables the brain to distinguish one sound even when it comes together with competing sounds and noises. Also named frequency masking, the process often takes place when two or more sounds with a similar fre... |
19 November 2007
04:05 GMT |
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In movies, machines and people can read your mind. Till we achieve that, a first step could be done, which would be quite a breakthrough: translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into speech in a pioneering experiment. Jonathan Brumberg from Boston University revealed the results of his team at the meeting of the... |
16 November 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain and yesterday Barack Obama are the four most important candidates that have given speeches at Google. All with good chances, all crowd pleasers and charismatic figures (they must be, or else they wouldn't have been running for president), all with something to prove, al... |
15 November 2007
04:52 GMT |
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The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it's been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not b... |
15 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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1.The speech skill is a wonder. To produce a phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate. Each muscle is a bundle made of hundreds or thousands of fibers. For the coordination of these muscles much more neurons than necessary are required for contracting the muscles from an ath... |
9 November 2007
14:56 GMT |
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When you call someone "a Neanderthal", you refer to that person as extremely rude and wild. But the more we investigate our extinct cousin, the more we find out about his complexity. A new genetic research even says they could have spoken in the same manner modern humans do. Since the first discovery of a Neanderthal... |
19 October 2007
03:11 GMT |
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Those bat species that emit ultrasounds to spot prey and avoid obstacles present a high variation in the FOXP2 gene, pointing that mutations in the gene boosted the evolution of the bat sonar. The protein encoded by FOXP2 appears to control coordination between mouth muscles and speech. In 2001, it was connected to s... |
26 September 2007
02:48 GMT |
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The first human slang could have been a rudimentary system of visual, tactile and auditive calls, resembling animal communication. But when we acquired the ability of representing objects through symbols and communicate to another individual our own mental creations, we turned ourselves different from the rest of the... |
4 August 2007
06:48 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of our traits that definitely separates us not only from other animals, but also perhaps from our extinct relatives. It is believed that Homo sapiens appeared about 150,000 years ago, but a sudden boost in its evolution was given by the emergence of the language some 50,000 years ago. ... |
3 August 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Ever tried convincing your wife/girlfriend that you're still at the office, when you're out for a drink with your buddies? I'm sure you did, so I'll go on. Ever wondered what gives you away? Definitely you talking very loud. Here's what I suggest you should buy before your next guys-night-out... |
9 May 2007
11:31 GMT |
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