A person's style of speech -- not just the pitch of his or her voice -- may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a researcher who studied ...

Perception generally feels effortless. If you hear a bird chirping and look out the window, it hardly feels like your brain has done anything at all when you recognize that chirping critter on your ...

Inhibiting infants' tongue movements impedes their ability to distinguish between speech sounds, researchers have found. The study is the first to discover a direct link between infants' oral-motor ...

Certain sounds can act as cues during cooking and give us an indication of how to proceed. When preparing the tadka, the crackling sound that arises when the mustard seeds sputter in the pan of hot ...

Neurobiologists from HSE University and the RAS Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology proved that the human brain unconsciously distinguishes between even very similar sound signals ...

A research team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute at Toyohashi University of Technology has indicated that the ...

A self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh. The artist is thought to have experienced synesthesia. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Oh, to be a synesthete, those rare people with access to an extra layer of ...

Natural sounds include animal vocalizations, environmental sounds such as wind, water and fire noises, and non-vocal sounds made by animals and humans for communication. These natural sounds have ...