Speech
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How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.When he talks about where his fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology have taken a wrong turn, David Poeppel of New York University doesn’t mince words. “There’s an orgy of data but very little understanding,” he said to a packed room at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in […] -
44 Years of Debating the First Words Ever Spoken on the Moon
Perhaps no recorded phrase has been so heavily analyzed, so dredged for missing information, as Neil Armstrong’s words when he took his first step on the Moon. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last 40-odd years, they were (drumroll), “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”Or at least, […]