Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

In addition to its widely recognized effects on gait, posture, balance, and upper limb coordination, Parkinson's disease (PD) can have a profound effect on speech and voice, within a cluster of speech ...

Myasthenia gravis patients show higher rates of dysarthria, dysphonia, dysphagia, and aspiration pneumonia compared to non-affected individuals. Despite high disorder rates, most myasthenia gravis ...

The goal of this study is to collect perceptual observations of speech in dysarthria to analyze how phrasal prominence and boundary are perceived. We are conducting this study online and are ...

Listening to people with Parkinson's disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30-percent more accurate, according to a new study. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest ...

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