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

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.

Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scientists who have looked for patterns in convicted murderers' speech as they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human brain is a truly remarkable organ. Whereas most animals have brains that correlate to the size of their bodies, human brains are much larger than they should be given our body sizes. What's ...