Making sense of a noisy world
Exploring speech and the brain
How do our brains make sense of the crazy medley of sound in our lives:chatter, TV, radio, background music, phone calls and so on?
The team
The research team is trying to find out how the brain makes sense of speech in a world of constant chatter. The team is led by Sophie Scott. It is based at University College and Hammersmith Hospital in London plus the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Speech
Our brains turn spoken sounds into meaning. The brain not only interprets the words but also takes into account intonation and melody. How?
One of the research techniques is to carry out brain scans on vounteers to see which parts of their brains are active when they hear speech.
Submitted by: , 14 August 2003
