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	Podcast:		UC Berkeley (Video)
	Episode:		How Does Your Brain Decode Garbled Speech?
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:01:50
	Publish Date:		2017-02-10 15:00:00
	Description:		When you're suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to be re-tuning to recognize speech that was previously incomprehensible. University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have now observed this re-tuning in action by recording directly from the surface of a person's brain as the words of a previously unintelligible sentence suddenly pop out after the subject is told the meaning of the garbled speech. The re-tuning takes place within a second or less, they found. The findings will aid Knight and his colleagues in their quest to develop a speech decoder: a device implanted in the brain that would interpret people's imagined speech and help speechless patients, such as those paralyzed by Lou Gehrig's disease, communicate. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Science] [Show ID: 31962]
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