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·January 2, 2020·2 min read

Hearing through lip-reading

Lip reading causes brain activity to synchronize with sound waves, even when there is no audible sound.

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·November 12, 2019·3 min read

New pathways in brain’s amygdala discovered

Study provides evidence of the existence of a long-rage inhibitory pathway from the auditory cortex to the amygdala in the brains of mice.

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·November 7, 2019·4 min read

Enjoyment of pop music classics linked to combination of uncertainty and surprise

Combining neuroimaging data with machine learning, researchers report musical pleasure depends on a dynamic interplay between prospective and retrospective states of expectation.

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·October 21, 2019·5 min read

How the brain dials up the volume to hear someone in a crowd

When 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.

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·October 2, 2019·4 min read

The propensity to hear ‘voices’ in Schizophrenia may be established by infancy

People 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.

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·September 23, 2019·2 min read

How the brain repurposes unused regions

There is an underlying organization that dictates how the visual cortex is repurposed in blind people, which is not random.

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·September 18, 2019·4 min read

Brain imaging shows how nonverbal children with autism have slower response to sounds

Nonverbal children on the autism spectrum have a slower response to auditory stimulation. The longer response times were associated with poor communication skills. Brain imaging of the auditory cortex could serve as a biomarker for measuring the likelihood of language impairment in those with ASD.

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·August 28, 2019·3 min read

New findings on human speech recognition

Increased activity of the ventromedial geniculate body indicates the processing of auditory information begins before the auditory pathways reach the cerebral cortex.

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·July 12, 2019·5 min read

Brain-computer interfacing technology uses music to make people happy

A new brain-machine interface technology can enhance emotional interaction with music.

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·June 18, 2019·3 min read

Reducing brain inflammation could treat tinnitus and other hearing loss-related disorders

Rodent study reveals noise-induced hearing loss is associated with elevated expression of proinflammatory cytokines and microglia activation in the primary auditory cortex. Pharmacologically depleting microglia helps prevent tinnitus in mice with noise-induced hearing loss.

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·June 10, 2019·4 min read

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Study of macaque monkeys reveals speech and music may have shaped the human brain's auditory networks. Researchers found specific areas of the human brain have a stronger preference for pitch than that of primates, raising the possibility certain sounds, which are embedded in music and speech, may have shaped the organization of our brains.