By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking contrasts in how groups of neurons ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have mapped the sound-processing part of the mouse brain in a way that keeps both the proverbial forest and the trees in view. Their imaging technique allows zooming in and out on views of brain ...
Jul 31, 2014
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An international collaboration of neuroscientists has shed light on how the brain helps us to predict what is coming next in speech.
Apr 25, 2017
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In a busy coffee shop, our eardrums are inundated with sound waves—people chatting, the clatter of cups, music playing—yet our brains somehow manage to untangle relevant sounds, like a barista announcing that our coffee ...
Sep 10, 2019
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Neurobiologists from HSE University and the RAS Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology proved that the human brain unconsciously distinguishes between even very similar sound signals during passive listening. ...
Feb 9, 2022
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that there is a previously unknown neural pathway in the mouse brain that leads from the lateral amygdala to the auditory cortex. In ...
I'm 70 years old and have worn hearing aids for about a decade. Over the past several years, my hearing seems to be getting worse. Although I have tried several different kinds of hearing aids, I feel as if they are not effective ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Our brains "time-stamp" the order of incoming sounds, allowing us to correctly process the words that we hear, shows a new study by a team of psychology and linguistics researchers. Its findings, which appear in the journal ...
Nov 7, 2022
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A study led by Canadian researchers has found the first evidence that lifelong musicians experience less age-related hearing problems than non-musicians.
Sep 13, 2011
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Early dementia is typically associated with memory and thinking problems; but older adults should also be vigilant about hearing and communication problems, suggest recent findings in a joint Baycrest-University of Memphis ...
Mar 15, 2017
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