A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody.

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

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

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

A new study from Northwestern University’s School of Communication, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified an unexpected role for a brain region long ...

A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) suggests that poor sleep may contribute to brain shrinkage and ...

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

Tyron Molteni – stock.adobe.com) In healthy females, brain aging was most apparent in the right precentral gyrus, postcentral gyri, precunei, superior parietal lobules, and paracentral lobules. Males, ...

Poor sleep could have an impact on brain health, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) ...