Brainiacs Episode 15: What We Say and What We Hear

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Where Do Nextdoor Communities Exist-And What Do These Communities Talk About?

^{To address our limited understanding of the hyperlocal social media network and the populations that use the platform, a team of NYU and University of Michigan researchers generated a demographic portrait of communities in where Nextdoor neighborhoods exist. They also tracked the presence of public agencies in those communities, and charted which topics are most often discussed.}

Is It a Sound of Music…or of Speech? Scientists Uncover How Our Brains Try to Tell the Difference

An international team of researchers mapped out how we identify the difference between music and speech using a series of experiments-yielding insights that offer a potential means to optimize therapeutic programs that use music to regain the ability to speak in addressing aphasia. This language disorder afflicts more than 1 in 300 Americans each year, including Wendy Williams and Bruce Willis.

NYU Researchers Develop Neural Decoding That Can Give Back Lost Speech

In a recent study published in Nature Machine Intelligence, a team of NYU researchers led by Yao Wang presented a significant advancement in the decoding of speech using neural architectures-turning signals recorded from the brain and transforming them into audible speech. Building upon previous research, their work introduces modifications that enhance decoding accuracy across a broader range of voices.