Study reports a new digital polytherapeutic that delivers white noise could significantly improve symptoms for those with tinnitus.
Researchers identified a new mechanism by which auditory sensitivity is regulated. The mechanism can temporarily reduce sensitivity in the auditory system to protect itself from loud sounds that can cause hearing damage.
A song's lyrics have an effect on our ability to process musical pitch, but not necessarily due to the meaningfulness of the words.
Higher pitched voices in women influence how their faces are evaluated, researchers report. The faces of women with higher-pitched voices were perceived as being younger. However, researchers found no evidence of a link between vocal pitch or perceptions of facial attractiveness, health, or femininity.
In a study of speakers of 45 languages, researchers found similar patterns of brain activity and language selectivity.
Listening to your favorite music increases connectivity in the brain, especially for older people. Researchers said music appears to bridge the gap between the auditory system and the reward system in the brain.
A study of the cerebral cortex discovered there is a robust response to sound during sleep that largely mirrored the brain's response during wakefulness. However, differences in brain waves that help the brain understand sound and anticipate what comes next is missing during sleep.
During sleep, the brain analyzes auditory input but is unable to focus on the sound or identify the noise; therefore no conscious awareness of the stimuli occurs.
Within hours of birth, newborns begin to distinguish between sounds and become sensitive to language information.
Researchers 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.
A newly developed word-score model is capable of estimating hidden hearing loss and the effectiveness of hearing loss interventions.
Researchers identified three different MINAR2 genetic mutations that were responsible for deafness in 13 people from four different families.
