Researchers discover that Heschl’s gyrus plays a major role in interpreting speech qualities like pitch, tone, and emphasis.

The folding brain creates a stress landscape, causing axons – the long, slender projections of neurons that transmit ...

The multidisciplinary study published in Nature Communications found a brain region known as Heschl's gyrus doesn't just process sounds—it transforms subtle changes in pitch, known as prosody, into ...

When we speak, emphasizing a word or raising our voice on a syllable can radically change the meaning of a sentence. For ...

Traditionally, scientists have believed that prosody – a term describing pitch changes that convey meaning in speech – was primarily handled by the superior temporal gyrus, a brain region involved in ...