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·February 23, 2022·3 min read

Disliking Music: What’s the Point?

A new study explores music aversion, finding musical dislike may facilitate identity expression and help demarcate social groups.

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·February 22, 2022·6 min read

Singing in the Brain

Researchers have identified a population of neurons in the auditory cortex that responds to singing, but not any other type of music.

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·February 15, 2022·4 min read

How the Brain Filters Out Sounds

A new study sheds light on auditory perception in bats.

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·February 15, 2022·4 min read

Dogs Can Recognize Their Owner by Voice Alone

Differences in sound properties, including pitch and timbre, help dogs to recognize the voice of their owners over that of a stranger.

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·January 28, 2022·2 min read

Babies Are Sensitive to Rhyme, Rhythm and Phrases in Children’s Songs

Babies are sensitive to language patterns in the soothing rhymes their parents sing them.

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·January 17, 2022·2 min read

The Brain Pays Attention to Unfamiliar Voices During Sleep

During deep sleep, the presence of an unfamiliar voice elicits more K-complexes, a type of brain wave linked to sensory perturbances during sleep, compared to the sound of a familiar voice.

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·December 20, 2021·5 min read

Perfecting Pitch Perception

Natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of sounds we encounter most often.

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·December 17, 2021·5 min read

Revealing How the Brain Understands One Voice in a Noisy Crowd

Study reveals how the brain is able to focus its attention on a single speaker in a crowded, noisy environment.

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·December 2, 2021·3 min read

Wind Farm and Traffic Noise Found to Stimulate the Brain During Sleep

The noise of traffic and wind farms has an impact on sleep, researchers report. The study revealed the effects of the noise were brief, and most study participants' brain waves returned to baseline sleep activity within thirty seconds of the noises being introduced.

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·November 20, 2021·5 min read

Monkeys, Guinea Pigs and Native English Speakers Have Very Similar Brain Responses to Speech Sounds

The sound of speech elicits similar neural responses and stimulates the same brain regions in humans, guinea pigs, and macaque monkeys.

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·October 27, 2021·3 min read

To Baby Brains, Language Is Language, Whether Signed or Spoken

Early exposure to language, whether it's vocalized or sign language, assists with normal brain development in children, researchers report.

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·October 26, 2021·3 min read

To Better Understand Speech, Focus On Who Is Talking

Matching the location of a face to the speech sounds a person is producing significantly increases our ability to understand them, especially in noisy environments.

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auditory neuroscience

Disliking Music: What’s the Point?

Singing in the Brain

How the Brain Filters Out Sounds

Dogs Can Recognize Their Owner by Voice Alone

Babies Are Sensitive to Rhyme, Rhythm and Phrases in Children’s Songs

The Brain Pays Attention to Unfamiliar Voices During Sleep

Perfecting Pitch Perception

Revealing How the Brain Understands One Voice in a Noisy Crowd

Wind Farm and Traffic Noise Found to Stimulate the Brain During Sleep

Monkeys, Guinea Pigs and Native English Speakers Have Very Similar Brain Responses to Speech Sounds

To Baby Brains, Language Is Language, Whether Signed or Spoken

To Better Understand Speech, Focus On Who Is Talking

Why We Are Misjudging How Childhood Trauma Changes the Body

Everyday Habit Changes Lowers Dementia Risk

Legalized Cannabis Does Not Increase Consumption

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