Understanding the interplay between speech rate and perception is fundamental to unraveling how listeners decode continuous spoken language. Variations in speech tempo not only influence the ...

Speech-language-hearing professionals often have to assess the speech perception and comprehension of bilinguals who suffer from a hearing or processing impairment. How they do so is an interesting ...

Making music is good for your brain. There was already plenty of evidence for the effect of music on memory, but now a new study found another way in which musicians are at an advantage. They showed ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

What happens when you listen to speech at a different speed? Neuroscientists thought that your brain may turn up its processing speed as well. But it turns out that at least the auditory part of the ...