Do People Hear Sounds Differently?
There is lots of interesting stuff coming out of this year's
annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. I hope to attend the meeting in person next year. This year's meeting is ove,r but I hope to bring you a few brain-related highlights in the next few days.
Since Episode 30, I have been on the lookout for linguistics related news, which is why the following item in ScienceDaily.com caught my eye: Linguistics professor, Jackson T. Gandour, presented information from several of his pitch processing studies entitled "Brain Basis of Speech."
Jackson T. Gandour is a researcher in neurophonetics at Purdue University. The complete article, "Linguist Tunes In To Pitch Processing In Brain" is available at the Science Daily website.
Since Episode 30, I have been on the lookout for linguistics related news, which is why the following item in ScienceDaily.com caught my eye: Linguistics professor, Jackson T. Gandour, presented information from several of his pitch processing studies entitled "Brain Basis of Speech."
"Everyone has a brainstem, but it's tuned differently depending on what sounds are behaviorally relevant to a person; for example, the sounds of his or her mother tongue," Gandour said.
Jackson T. Gandour is a researcher in neurophonetics at Purdue University. The complete article, "Linguist Tunes In To Pitch Processing In Brain" is available at the Science Daily website.