How does the brain prepare to hear before birth? Johns Hopkins researchers discovered an internal neural "shortcut" that ...
Older adults struggling to follow conversations in noisy rooms may be showing the earliest signs of cognitive decline, not ...
The human auditory cortex transforms acoustic input into coherent percepts through a hierarchical network spanning primary, belt and parabelt regions. Early stages in primary auditory cortex are ...
Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This behavior, termed whisking, has been ...
Researchers have found that the brain’s ability to hear and evaluate its own speech may matter more for learning new vocal ...
Sounds you consciously perceive affect your brain differently than sounds you don't, a recent Yale study found. For the study, researchers played participants a series of tones—ranging in intensity ...