News tagged with auditory neurons


Temporal processing in the olfactory system

The neural machinery underlying our olfactory sense continues to be an enigma for neuroscience. A recent review in Neuron seeks to expand traditional ideas about how neurons in the olfactory bulb might encode information about ...

Neuroscience created May 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers pinpoint brain mechanisms that make the auditory system sensitive to behaviorally relevant sounds

(Medical Xpress)—How do we hear? More specifically, how does the auditory center of the brain discern important sounds – such as communication from members of the same species – from relatively irrelevant background ...

Neuroscience created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Uncovering how humans hear one voice among many

Humans have an uncanny ability to zero in on a single voice, even amid the cacophony of voices found in a crowded party or other large gathering of people. Researchers have long sought to identify the precise ...

Neuroscience created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tackling hearing loss

Some 16 per cent of European adults suffer from hearing loss that is severe enough to adversely affect their daily life. Hearing loss impacts on one's ability to communicate - to hear, process sound, and ...

Other created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How the brain forms categories

Neurobiologists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the discrete ...

Neuroscience created Oct 20, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Rewired visual input to sound-processing part of the brain leads to compromised hearing

Scientists at Georgia State University have found that the ability to hear is lessened when, as a result of injury, a region of the brain responsible for processing sounds receives both visual and auditory inputs.

Neuroscience created Aug 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify brain area that determines distance from which sound originates

Researchers at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a portion of the brain responsible for determining how far away a sound originates, a process that ...

Neuroscience created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene mutation in autism found to cause hyperconnectivity in brain's hearing center

New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) might help explain how a gene mutation found in some autistic individuals leads to difficulties in processing auditory cues and paying spatial attention to sound.

Neuroscience created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Listen up: Abnormality in auditory processing underlies dyslexia

People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis ...

Neuroscience created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Unraveling the mysteries of the maternal brain: Odors influence the response to sounds

Motherhood is associated with the acquisition of a host of new behaviors that must be driven, at least in part, by alterations in brain function. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the October 20 issue of the journal ...

Neuroscience created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast