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·December 9, 2015·4 min read

Focusing on Visual Tasks Makes Us Deaf to Our Surroundings

A new study reports concentrating on visual tasks can render you momentarily 'deaf' to normal level sounds around you.

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·November 17, 2015·4 min read

Recognizing the Basic Structure of Language is Not Unique to Human Brain

A new study sheds light on the evolutionary roots of language in the human brain.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·October 26, 2015·4 min read

Neurological Notes: How We Process Music

Researchers have identified how brain rhythms are used to process music.

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·October 12, 2015·3 min read

Hold the Teethers: Babies Need Free Tongue Movement to Decipher Speech Sounds

A new study finds a surprising link between an infant's oral motor movements and auditory speech perception.

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·October 2, 2015·4 min read

Memory Sharpening Cancer Drug Could Help Alzheimer’s Patients

A drug currently used to treat cancer appears to sharpen memory. Researchers believe the drug could help people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders.

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·September 12, 2015·5 min read

Neural Circuit in the Cricket Brain Detects the Rhythm of the Right Mating Call

Researchers have identifies a brain circuit that allows female crickets to automatically identify the chirps of males through rhythmic pulses in their mating calls.

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·August 20, 2015·4 min read

Temporary Postnatal Blindness Triggers Lasting Reorganization in the Infant Brain

Researchers report temporary postnatal visual deprivation induces permanent auditory responses in the visual area of the infant's brain.

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·July 14, 2015·5 min read

A New Way To Assess Future Literacy Challenges in Children

According to a new study, the brain's ability to process consonants in a noisy environment could give clues to a child's literacy potential.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·June 24, 2015·4 min read

Ability to Sort Complex Auditory Signals Aided by Norepinephrine

According to a new study, norepinephrine has a direct and unexpected role in auditory processing of complex sounds.

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·June 24, 2015·6 min read

Pretty Polly! Why Parrots are Great at Vocal Imitation

Researchers have identified structural differences in parrot brains which could explain why they are able to imitate sounds and human speech so well.

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·April 27, 2015·3 min read

Mustached Bats Use Both Sides of Brain to Process Sounds

A new study reports mustached bats use both sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.

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·February 19, 2015·2 min read

New Insights into Underlying Cellular Mechanisms of Information Processing in the Brain

A new study identifies a key factor in regulating information transmission during the early stages of auditory processing.

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