{"id":37865,"date":"2011-08-07T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/people-with-dyslexia-have-difficulty-not-just-reading-words-but-recognizing-voices-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:45:48","slug":"people-with-dyslexia-have-difficulty-not-just-reading-words-but-recognizing-voices-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/people-with-dyslexia-have-difficulty-not-just-reading-words-but-recognizing-voices-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"People With Dyslexia Have Difficulty Not Just Reading Words, But Recognizing Voices | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&rsquo;s the News:<\/strong> While most people think of dyslexia as primarily a problem with reading, people with dyslexia seem to have trouble processing the spoken language, as well. A new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/333\/6042\/595.abstract?sid=84584946-ef36-4f9d-885a-b0b5148c90d1\">study<\/a> published last week <em>Science <\/em>found that people with dyslexia have a harder time recognizing voices than other people do.<\/p><p><strong>How the Heck:<\/strong><\/p><p> Participants in the study&ndash;half of whom were dyslexic&ndash;watched and listened to cartoon characters on a computer. Each character had a distinct voice, and spoke either English, the participants&rsquo; native language, or Mandarin Chinese.<br>The participants were then played a clip of each voice and asked to match it to the correct character.<br>People without reading difficulties were <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/health\/research\/02dyslexia.html\">better at recognizing voices speaking their native language<\/a>. They could correctly pick out which character went with a voice about two-thirds of the time if the voice was speaking English, and only about half the time if it was speaking Mandarin.<br>Dyslexics, on the other hand, showed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/Boston\/whitecoatnotes\/2011\/07\/people-with-dyslexia-have-hard-time-recognizing-voices\/ZyL52rgE1OF27YH5vpsaSL\/index.html\">no native language boost<\/a>. It didn&rsquo;t matter if a voice was speaking English or Mandarin: they correctly matched it with a character around half the time either way. <\/p><p><strong>What&rsquo;s the Context:<\/strong><\/p><p> Researchers are increasingly finding that reading problems, while the most well known feature of dyslexia, are ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wI5rwSomlaGJa2sefJSiAn9HnWM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/11fbd_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wI5rwSomlaGJa2sefJSiAn9HnWM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/11fbd_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/11fbd_4La__zvVAvQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/11fbd_4DGO7cUEQF0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s the News: While most people think of dyslexia as primarily a problem with reading, people with dyslexia seem to have trouble processing the spoken language, as well. A new study published last week Science found that people with dyslexia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/people-with-dyslexia-have-difficulty-not-just-reading-words-but-recognizing-voices-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}