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Speech Insights Sound Off in the Brain
Brain-wave recordings indicate that word duration and other intonational cues are immediately noted by listeners and provide crucial insights into sentence meaning.
References:
Steinhauer, K., K. Alter, and A.D. Friederici. 1999. Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience 2(February):191.
Van Petten, C., and P. Bloom. 1999. Speech boundaries, syntax and the brain. Nature Neuroscience 2(February):103.
Sources:
Paul Bloom
University of Arizona
Department of Psychology
Tucson, AZ 85721
Karsten Steinhauer
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Neuropsychology
P.O. Box 500-355
D-04303 Leipzig
Germany
Cyma Van Petten
University of Arizona
Department of Psychology
Tucson, AZ 85721
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 5, January 30, 1999, p. 68. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
