4 Speech Patterns Could Show How Well Your Brain And Body Is Ageing

Summary

We know that adults tend to change their speech as they age – the older we are, the more likely we may be to pause as we struggle to remember a word, for instance. And language shifts don’t necessarily mean you’re ageing any faster, or with any greater dementia risk, than usual. In fact, we’ve written about normal vs potentially dementia-related speech changes before here at HuffPost UK. More recently, however, a paper published in Science Advances looked more closely at a so-called “speech clock”, which took into account hundreds of factors like speed, pitch, and the emotional properties of…

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