Researchers track auditory perception across brain regions
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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Nervous System: News and Research on Temporal Lobe
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It's not just what you say—it's also how you say it: How the brain decodes changes in the pitch of speech
You've probably heard the phrase, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it," and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern University's School of Communication, the University of Pittsburgh ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Visualization technique depicts brain-wide activity change as geometric patterns
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes, such as the ever-changing neuronal ...
Feb 19, 2025
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Stressed mice process noise differently in the brain, altering how they perceive the world
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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Study sheds light on how the brain differentiates new stimuli from old ones
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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Why do we prefer curves over straight edges? Researchers probe brain for clues
For over 100 years, psychologists have known that most people prefer curviness over angularity in practically everything—from lines and shapes to faces, paintings and interior spaces. Moreover, the phenomenon has been observed ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Mixed signals: Mouse moms study explores how brain merges smell and sound cues
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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Scanning, scrolling and swiping: Research uncovers why our brains are effective at quickly processing messages
A team of New York University linguistics and psychology researchers has discovered that when a brief sentence is flashed, our brains detect its basic linguistic structure extremely quickly—in roughly 150 milliseconds, or ...
Oct 23, 2024
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Adding vagus nerve stimulation to training sessions may boost how well sounds are perceived
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 ...
Oct 9, 2024
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Lip reading activates brain regions similar to real speech, researchers show
Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain's auditory regions similarly to heard speech, according to a new University of Michigan report that looked at how vision supports verbal perception.
Aug 16, 2024
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