{"id":1558,"date":"2018-07-02T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:07:14","slug":"how-the-brain-tunes-in-to-the-music-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"How the Brain Tunes in to the Music of Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/664319\/scientists-identify-brains-pitch-area-essential-language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/sites\/default\/files\/brain_pitch_PIC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Probst\/UCSF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Human voices convey meaning and emphasis by changing pitch. Now, scientists at University of California, San Francisco believe they have found the brain area that makes this possible.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists increasingly believe home sapiens achieved language not only by evolving a sophisticated larynx, or voice box, but also by developing the neurological capacity to use it in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/664319\/scientists-identify-brains-pitch-area-essential-language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Identify The Brain\u2019s Pitch Area, Essential For Language<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human voices convey meaning and emphasis by changing pitch. Now, scientists at University of California, San Francisco believe they have found the brain area that makes this possible. Scientists increasingly believe home sapiens achieved language not only by evolving a sophisticated larynx, or voice box, but also by developing the neurological capacity to use it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the Brain Tunes in to the Music of Speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,121,67,312,475,3,13],"tags":[226,1540,1535,1539,1538,752,1536,1534,1501,1537],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-imaging","category-medicine","category-music","category-neuroscience-science","category-science","category-technology","tag-brain","tag-cortex","tag-dorsal-laryngeal-motor-cortex","tag-ecog","tag-electrocorticography","tag-language","tag-larynx","tag-pitch","tag-speech","tag-voice-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}