Speech Archives - Knowing Neurons

Language Did You Know?Sensation and Perception

Kayleen Schreiber March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 Brain, Broca's area, Cortex, ECoG, electrocorticography, Fact, Hebbian learning, Karl Wernicke, language, Neuroscience, Pāṇini, Paul Broca, Speech, Wernicke's area

Language: Your Connection to Others

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]magine what it would be like if you couldn’t communicate with others. Language is a critical aspect of our lives, and it may be one of the oldest academic pursuits… Read More

Brain Development Learning and Memory

Jacob Umans August 30, 2017August 29, 2017 Christiane Schreiweis, declaritive learning, Dopamine, dorsolateral striatum, dorsomedial striatum, FoxP2, language, Learning, long-term depression (LTD), Mice, procedural learning, Protein Kinase C, Speech, Striatum, transcription factor, Urlich Bornschein, vocalization

How Humans Speak and Mice Learn: The Widespread Effects of FOXP2

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom bird songs to frog ribbits, animals engage in countless forms of vocalization. However, no other species in the animal kingdom matches humans in complexity of language. The versatility of… Read More

Neuro News Did You Know?Sensation and Perception

Kate Fehlhaber October 12, 2016June 30, 2017 auditory, Brain, Fingerprint, Mother, Pattern, Reward, Soothe, Speech, Study, Voice

How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a fetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of… Read More

Songbird, Zebra Finch, Knowing Neurons, Michael Condro, Sing, Learn, Memory, Neuroscience, Brain,

Brain Development Did You Know?Learning and Memory

knowingneurons August 7, 2013March 5, 2017 Animal, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Babble, Cntnap2, FoxP2, Genes and vocal learning, Learning and Memory, Model, Neurogenetics, Sing, Song Nuclei, Songbird, Speak, Speech, Vocal Learning, Zebra Finch

What Can Songbirds Teach Us About Ourselves?

In my last post, “Vocal Practice is for the Birds” examined one similarity between human and songbird procedural learning: the necessity for practice before performance. Zebra finches sing a series… Read More