FeaturedNeuroscience·April 17, 2023·5 min readHow Music Can Prevent Cognitive DeclineListening to or practicing music had positive implications on cognitive decline in older adults by stimulating the production of gray matter in key brain areas, a new study reveals.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·December 24, 2022·5 min readWhen Elders Can’t Hear Words at a Noisy Holiday Gathering, Too Many Brain Cells May Be Firing at OnceOlder mice were less capable than younger mice at "turning off" certain actively firing neurons when exposed to ambient noise. The result causes a fuzzy soundscape that makes it difficult for the brain to focus on one type of sound and filter out other surrounding sounds.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 7, 2022·4 min readOur Brains ‘Time-Stamp’ Sounds to Process the Words We HearThe brain processes speech by using a buffer, maintaining a "time stamp" of the past three speech sounds. Findings also reveal the brain processes multiple sounds at the same time without mixing up the identity of each sound by passing information between neurons in the auditory cortex.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 24, 2022·5 min read“That Just Sounds Wrong”: How Our Brains Tell Us When a Sound Is OffResearchers reveal how the auditory cortex reacts to "wrong" sounds and shed light on auditory memory recall.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·October 11, 2022·5 min readWhy Are Sounds Not Perceived Under Anesthesia?Under anesthesia, neuron assemblies that respond to sound become indistinguishable from spontaneously active neurons. Findings suggest the state of unconsciousness produced by anesthesia forces the cerebral cortex to mask sensory input with spontaneous neural activity.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 7, 2022·3 min readSomatostatin Neurons Cooperate in the Cerebral CortexIn the cerebral cortex, when somatostatin neurons become active, other nearby somatostatin neurons became active as well. The distance over which somatostatin neurons shared activity expanded in the posterior parietal cortex.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 17, 2022·5 min readMisophonia Is More Than Just Hating the Sound of ChewingA new study contradicts previous findings that suggest misophonia is caused by a supersensitive connection between the auditory cortex and orofacial motor control areas of the brain.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeurosciencePain·July 7, 2022·4 min readHow Sound Reduces Pain in MiceResearchers have identified a network between the auditory cortex and thalamus that appears to blunt pain when an animal is exposed to specific sounds or noises.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·June 2, 2022·3 min readShedding New Light on Human Brain OrganizationA new map of the human brain reveals cells, receptors, and gene activity change along the same boundaries.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·March 28, 2022·2 min readStimulating the Auditory Cortex Improves Speech PerceptionStimulating a part of the auditory cortex called the planum temporale improved speech perception, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 24, 2022·5 min readNew Information About the Effects of Sleep on the Human BrainStudy sheds light on how various types of pulsations in the brain change while a person sleeps.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 22, 2022·6 min readSinging in the BrainResearchers have identified a population of neurons in the auditory cortex that responds to singing, but not any other type of music.Read More
