These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in humans, though in a different region ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

Although people use their voices to express themselves politely in society, many use bad manners, such as screaming and ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make. While we can’t guarantee the exact meaning of every vocalization, these are the perceived interpretations based on ...

A team of researchers led by Rockefeller University has pinpointed a particular protein variant – found only in modern humans – that alters vocalization. When introduced into mice, this version of a ...

Eliminating sub-vocalization, taking "snapshots" of book pages - there are a lot of techniques out there meant to enable you to read at much higher rates than normal. Additionally, many apps have ...

A man with Parkinson’s disease sitting in a crowded restaurant has to use the rest room, but he cannot get there. His feet are frozen; he cannot move. The more he tries, the more stressed he becomes.

Social interactions involve multi-modal signaling. Here, we study interacting rats to investigate audio-haptic coordination and multisensory integration in the auditory cortex. We find that facial ...