There is lots of interesting stuff coming out of this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I hope to attend the meeting in person next year. This year’s meeting is over but I hope to bring you a few brain-related highlights in the next few days.
Since episode 30 I have been on the look out for linguistics related news, which is why the following item in ScienceDaily.com caught my eye: Linguistics professor Jackson T. Gandour presented information from several of his pitch processing studies entitled “Brain Basis of Speech.”
“Everyone has a brainstem, but it’s tuned differently depending on what sounds are behaviorally relevant to a person, for example, the sounds of his or her mother tongue,” Gandour said.
Jackson T. Gandour is researcher in neurophonetics at Purdue University. The complete article, “Linguist Tunes In To Pitch Processing In Brain” is available at the Science Daily website.
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