The brain treated pitch accents – the slight variations in tone that change meaning in spoken language – separately from the sounds that make up words. The study revealed that, despite the natural ...

Voice pitch carries linguistic and non-linguistic information. Previous studies have described cortical tracking of voice pitch in clean speech, with responses reflecting both pitch strength and pitch ...

When researchers tested a macaque monkey with the same audio material, its brain processed the acoustic features but couldn’t ...

When researchers tested a macaque monkey with the same audio material, its brain processed the acoustic features but couldn’t categorize pitch accents as meaningful units. This suggests our ability to ...

Researchers tracked brain activity in epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes and found that this region encodes pitch accents as meaningful linguistic signals, separate from word sounds. This ...

Shamrock Rovers have apologised over the late postponement of Sunday night’s League of Ireland Premier Division clash against Cork City at Tallaght Stadium due to a waterlogged pitch.

Once a call has been challenged, an automated replay system will determine exactly where a pitch was located when it crossed home plate, using a set of cameras placed around the ballpark. A ...