auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 26, 2020Schizophrenia: When the thalamus misleads the earA new study reports hyper-connectivity between substructures of the thalamus, and the cerebral cortex may be responsible for auditory hallucinations associated with schizophrenia. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 12, 2020How the brain responds to the sudden sound of silent dangerStudy provides insight into the neural mechanisms of how prey animals use the sounds or actions of others to infer danger and respond defensively. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·April 20, 2020Origins of human language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years oldStudying auditory regions and brain pathways in humans, apes, and monkeys, researchers have identified a language pathway that interconnects the auditory cortex with frontal lobe regions. The language pathway in other primates suggests an evolutionary basis in auditory cognition and vocal communication. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·February 27, 2020Using a cappella to explain speech and music specializationUsing Cappella recordings, researchers discover humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articlesvisual neuroscience·February 10, 2020Sensory perception is not superficial brain workWhen exposed to auditory stimulation, visual areas of the brain decreased in activity. Findings suggest sound can strongly draw attention away from what we are looking at. Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience·January 8, 2020Abnormal neuron activity manifests as parental neglectAbnormal activation of parvalbumin neurons in the young mouse auditory cortex manifests as a result of maternal neglect. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeurosciencevisual neuroscience·January 2, 2020Hearing through lip-readingLip reading causes brain activity to synchronize with sound waves, even when there is no audible sound. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 12, 2019New pathways in brain’s amygdala discoveredStudy provides evidence of the existence of a long-rage inhibitory pathway from the auditory cortex to the amygdala in the brains of mice. Read More
artificial intelligencedeep learningFeaturedNeuroscienceneurotechOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 7, 2019Enjoyment of pop music classics linked to combination of uncertainty and surpriseCombining neuroimaging data with machine learning, researchers report musical pleasure depends on a dynamic interplay between prospective and retrospective states of expectation. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·October 21, 2019How the brain dials up the volume to hear someone in a crowdWhen a person listens to another person talking, their brain waves alter to select specific features of the speaker's voice and tune out other voices. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·October 2, 2019The propensity to hear ‘voices’ in Schizophrenia may be established by infancyPeople with schizophrenia who experience auditory hallucinations have greater activation in specific areas of the auditory cortex in response to sound frequencies. The mapping of sound frequency in the auditory cortex is scrambled in those with schizophrenia, suggesting a disruption in the normal processes for organized sound representation in the brain. As the tonotopic map is established during infancy and remains stable throughout life, the findings suggest vulnerability for auditory hallucinations is linked to defects in the organization of the auditory system during infantile development. This precedes speech development and the onset of psychiatric symptoms. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeurosciencevisual neuroscience·September 23, 2019How the brain repurposes unused regionsThere is an underlying organization that dictates how the visual cortex is repurposed in blind people, which is not random. Read More
