Speech rate and word-finding difficulties, including pausing and use of fillers such as “um” and “uh,” were associated with changes in executive function across the adult lifespan in a new study. Jed ...

Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...

If you’re like most people, you probably rely on filler words like “um” and “uh” when speaking, whether you’re presenting at work or talking to old friends over coffee. Use of filler words can be very ...

At the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, researchers presented a study involving cognitively normal individuals that examined speech behavior in connected speech tasks to measure the ...

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 ...

Everyday speech habits—including saying "um"—may offer clues about how efficiently the brain is functioning. Tiny speech habits—pausing to find a word, saying "uh" or "um," or losing your train of ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes. One important part of this is speech motor learning, the brain's ability ...

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 ...

The research, which was led by experts from the Baycrest Corporate Centre for Geriatric Care, the University of Toronto, and York University, found that certain speech patterns can be indicative of ...