Scientists have found that a portion of the brain that handles decision-making also helps decipher different sounds. A front portion of the brain that handles tasks like decision-making also helps ...

Sometimes, teenagers make irritating noises. Now we know what those noises are called. Over at The Week, editor (and linguist) James Harbeck has penned an excellent piece titled, quite simply, ...

Speech perception requires the rapid and effortless extraction of meaningful phonetic information from a highly variable acoustic signal. A powerful example of this phenomenon is categorical speech ...

In an era where voice messages and ephemeral videos compete for attention, writing has remained, for millennia, the fundamental support of cultural memory. It stores knowledge, tells stories, and ...