Scientists from Freiburg Find Brain Signals That Tell Who
Someone Is Talking To
Human speech comes in countless varieties: When people talk
to close friends or partners, they talk differently than when they address a
physician. These differences in speech are quite subtle and hard to pinpoint.
In a recent special issue of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
Johanna Derix, Dr. Tonio Ball, and their colleagues from the Bernstein Center
and the University Medical Center in Freiburg report that they were able to
tell from brain signals who a person was talking to. This discovery could
contribute to the further development of speech synthesizers for patients with
severe paralysis.