Psychology & Psychiatry
Humans have a poor memory for sound
Remember that sound bite you heard on the radio this morning? The grocery items your spouse asked you to pick up? Chances are, you won't.
Feb 26, 2014
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Neuroscience
Tinnitus study signals new advance in understanding link between exposure to loud sounds and hearing loss
(Medical Xpress)—A research team investigating tinnitus, from the University of Leicester, has revealed new insights into the link between the exposure to loud sounds and hearing loss.
Feb 14, 2014
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Neuroscience
Could action video games help people with dyslexia learn to read?
In addition to their trouble with reading, people with dyslexia also have greater difficulty than typical readers do when it comes to managing competing sensory cues, according to a study reported February 13 in Current Biology. ...
Feb 13, 2014
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Neuroscience
These blind mice hear like Stevie Wonder
Want to hear as well as Stevie Wonder or the late Ray Charles? A blindfold not only might help, it could rewire your brain in the process, a new study suggests.
Feb 11, 2014
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Medical research
Design prototype chip makes possible a fully implantable cochlear implant
Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a prototype system-on-chip (SoC) that could make possible a fully implanted cochlear implant. ...
Feb 10, 2014
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Neuroscience
Does a looser mind lead to faster learning?
You wouldn't think that dissolving part of the brain, particularly one that helps hold the organ together, would help a gerbil rethink a problem. But that's exactly what a team of German scientists has done.
Feb 5, 2014
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Neuroscience
A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes
Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long known that very young brains are malleable enough to re-wire some circuits that process ...
Feb 5, 2014
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Neuroscience
How vision captures sound now somewhat uncertain
(Medical Xpress)—When listening to someone speak, we also rely on lip-reading and gestures to help us understand what the person is saying.
Jan 16, 2014
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Neuroscience
Listening to the inner voice
(Medical Xpress)—Perhaps the most controversial book ever written in the field of psychology, was Julian Janes' mid-seventies classic, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." In it, Jaynes ...
Medical research
Computer models of neuronal sound processing in the brain lead to cochlear implant improvements
Children learning to speak depend on functional hearing. So-called cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear again by stimulating the auditory nerve directly. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are ...
Dec 2, 2013
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