New research reveals how the brain separates speech into words
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Scientists discovered that brain waves called high-gamma drop sharply 100 milliseconds after word boundaries, revealing how the brain separates continuous speech into individual words. This neural signal only appears when people listen to familiar languages, with bilingual speakers showing the pattern in both languages and language learners displaying stronger responses as their proficiency improves.
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