Posted on 07/29/2011 8:00:51 PM PDT by decimon
People with dyslexia struggle to recognise familiar voices, scientists suggest.
The finding is the first tentative evidence that small sounds in the human voice that vary between people are difficult for dyslexics to hear.
Writing in the journal Science, the scientists say that many people could have some degree of "voice blindness".
And by studying it, scientists hope to better understand how the human brain has evolved to recognise speech.
Humans rely on small sounds called phonemes to tell one person from another.
As we first try to form the word dog, for example, phonemes are the "duh"-"og"-"guh" sounds that our parents prompt us to make.
But as we master the ability to read, we become less reliant on recognising these sounds to read, and eventually stop noticing them.
Despite ignoring them, however, phonemes remain important for voice recognition.
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Ping
wh-wh-a-wha-what?
Beats me, they didn't mention stammering.
I once had a GF that would say the opposite of what she meant and it really ticked me off sometimes.
Dyslexics of the world-UNTIE!
It isn’t that we can’t discern them.
It is because we are ignoring them.
"Females is fickle." - Popeye
The voice in your head or the ones coming from the catchup bottle?
Interesting. I don’t think it’s just dyslexia though. I’m getting increasingly good at tuning quite a few voices out all together. Kind of wish I had this disorder back when I was still in school.
?thguoht evah dluow ohW
The latter is Carly Simon.
I think I might have dyslexia before it ever had a name. I would associate “3” with “E” and “4” with “h” “i” with “1” and so on, until I think it was just repetition through route memorizing it got straightened out. I still think about it when I type or write those numerals/letters.
I’m a dyslexit agnostic. I just don’t know if there’s a dog.
Maybe it's not as bad for me because I am from a musical family, have played several instruments and sound has always been important in my family.
I've also been a radio fanatic and have worked professionally in radio since the mid 80's. That too may have helped me overcome the problem. However there ARE times when I can't discern voices, especially if several people are talking at once.
The one thing I have been noticing more and more is that I REALLY have a hard time understanding young - up to the mid 30's - female voices.
I can hear them but I can't hear the words. It's many times just a garbled noise.
Could that as I age my male hearing is losing the ability to hear certain frequencies, especially in the higher range.
Mrs p6 claims it's nature's way of keeping old guys from hitting on younger women...sigh.
This actually makes a lot of sense to me. I pulled my son out of school in 3rd grade and began homeschooling him because he was struggling so much with math and spelling. My husband was dyslexic but didn’t realize it until college so he recognized the signs in our son.
The biggest problem that my son had to overcome was that he couldn’t hear all the sounds so he couldn’t figure out what a word meant or how to spell it. I would give him the word ATTENTION and he would say A-t-t-i-o-n.....he just couldn’t hear all of the syllables.
He started playing piano and I would have classical music playing n the background when he was doing his spelling lessons - it made a bid difference but I firmly believe that there is a part of the brain in dyslexics that has trouble picking out certain sounds.
YES! That is it! You hear the word but not all the syllables!
BTW you don't want to know how long it took me to proof read my other post, LOL! And I probably missed a lot anyway!
dyslexic agnostic insomniacs stay up all night wondering if there is a dog:)
I have been told this evening told by usually reliable sources that the unforgotten and unforgettable artiste Terry Jacks was dislexic.
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