Learning With Music Can Change Brain Structure
Listening to music while learning a new physical skill can help increase connectivity in the white matter tract linking auditory and motor regions of the brain, a new study reports.... Read More...
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Controlling a Single Brain Chemical May Help Expand Window for Learning Language and Music
Using mouse models, researchers restricted a key chemical messenger to extend efficient auditory learning until much later in life. Disrupting adenosine signaling in the auditory thalamus allowed researchers to extend the window for auditory learning well into adulthood and far beyond the current critical period. ... Read More...
How Hearing a Warning Sound Turns Into Fearing It Over Time: Mouse Study
Researchers identify a new mechanism that contributes to learning an association between a warning noise and a fearful event.... Read More...
What’s Coming Next? How the Brain Predicts Speech
A new study sheds light on how the brain predicts what comes next when someone is talking.... Read More...
Hearing Tests Miss Common Form of Hearing Loss
Researchers report many hearing tests fail to pick up a common form of inner ear damage that leads to hearing loss.... Read More...
The Way The Brain Processes Speech Could Serve as a Predictor of Early Dementia
Noticeable communication problems may be an early sign of mild cognitive impairment, a new study reports.... Read More...
If You Get the Chills From Music, You May Have a Unique Brain
Researchers report on why some people experience more intense emotions while listening to music.... Read More...
Second Cause of Hidden Hearing Loss Identified
Researchers reveal an unexpected cause for hidden hearing loss.... Read More...
Dyslexia Linked to Shorter Memory Trace of Previous Stimuli
A new study provides insight into the underlying brain mechanisms that may be a root cause of dyslexia.... Read More...
How the Brain Helps Us Understand Spoken Words in Noisy Settings
Researchers have discovered a mechanism the brain uses to help compensate when noise obscures speech sounds.... Read More...
Not Feeling the Music? Lack of Joy From Music Linked to Brain Disconnection
People with musical anhedonia have reduced connectivity between brain areas associated with reward and sound processing, a new study reports.... Read More...
How the Brain Helps Us Understand Spoken Words in Noisy Settings
A new study identifies a neural mechanism that allows the brain to compensate for speech sounds when they are obscured by noise.... Read More...