Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates the mechanisms through which humans can pick out and focus on single sounds in noisy environments.
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How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem) have ...
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Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the speech perception process ...
Jun 4, 2025
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What happens in the brain when our senses don't match our expectations—for example, when we take a step, but there's no sound or the sound is delayed or distorted? A new study led by FMI neuroscientists sheds light on how ...
May 7, 2025
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By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University researchers are shedding light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn.
Mar 19, 2025
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Sounds you consciously perceive affect your brain differently than sounds you don't, a recent Yale study found.
Mar 12, 2025
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After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a study published February 11 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology led by Ghattas Bisharat, ...
Feb 11, 2025
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The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage and decision-making.
Feb 10, 2025
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Imagine you're at a dinner party, but you can't smell the food cooking or hear the dinner bell. Sounds like a dream, right? What if it wasn't? "When we experience the world and interact with people, we use all our senses," ...
Jan 6, 2025
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Just as a musician can train to more sharply distinguish subtle differences in pitch, mammals can improve their ability to interpret hearing, vision, and other senses with practice. This process, which is called perceptual ...
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