The perception of our own voice depends on sound transmission through air (air-conducted) as well as through the skull bone (bone-conducted or BC). The transmission properties of BC speech are, ...

A 25-year-old chimpanzee named "Panzee" has just demonstrated that speech perception is not a uniquely human trait. Well-educated Panzee understands more than 130 English language words and even ...

Researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker's lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech. For all talkers, except perhaps the ...

No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to perceive the difference between 'd' and 't', according to a new study. No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to ...

First off: Name a person who’s always talking very quickly… OK, now name a person who’s always talking slowly… Odds are that you didn’t have to think long before you thought of (at least) two names.

image: No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to perceive the difference between 'd' and 't', according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...