Ever wondered if your casual "um" and "uh" could be telling a deeper story? Researchers in Toronto and York have uncovered ...

The presence of speech patterns in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), commonly called autism, is linked to problems in social communication and social interaction that define ASD. These ...

The way we speak in everyday conversation may hold important clues about brain health, according to new research from Baycrest, the University of Toronto and York University. The study found that ...

A new analysis suggests that posts in hate speech communities on the social media website Reddit share speech-pattern similarities with posts in Reddit communities for certain psychiatric disorders.

In most human languages, the most frequently used words are short. Think “the,” and, “of ” and “a.” It turns out the same thing goes for penguins too. A team of researchers based in Italy have found ...

Voice recordings helped predict which patients with mild cognitive impairment developed Alzheimer's dementia in 6 years. The study leveraged AI methods for speech recognition and processed the ...

Those of us who have cared for someone with Alzheimer's disease know all too well the pain of trying to communicate with someone who is losing their language abilities. People with the disease tend to ...

Speech composite tracks subtle language decline in FTD. AI-based recall task might detect mild cognitive impairment. Automated phone task to detect AD will be tested in 1,200 people. Scientists will ...