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A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody.

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Researchers discover that Heschl’s gyrus plays a major role in interpreting speech qualities like pitch, tone, and emphasis.

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Abstract: Prosody plays a fundamental role in human speech and communication, facilitating intelligibility and conveying emotional and cognitive states. Extracting accurate prosodic information from ...

Although speculative, Klin and her colleagues conclude that both of the textisms they examined were understood by readers as a pause, perhaps mimicking the vocal prosody of a dramatic pause.