Latest

noise

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·May 7, 2025·5 min read

Why Noisy Rooms Are Harder for Some Brains to Handle

New research reveals that the insula, a key brain region, shows altered connectivity in people who struggle to understand speech in noisy environments. Using resting-state MRI, scientists found that the left insula works harder even when the brain is not actively processing sound, suggesting a permanent rewiring linked to hearing difficulties.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 11, 2024·4 min read

New Materials Reduce Noise in Pacemakers, Enhancing Patient Comfort

Researchers developed innovative materials to improve the performance of brain and heart pacemakers by reducing signal interference. These devices often face challenges from external electromagnetic forces, causing discomfort like headaches for patients.

This shows electrical activity in the brain

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 1, 2022·4 min read

Finding Structure in the Brain’s Static

Wave patterns provide a deeper insight into sleep, consciousness, and attention.

This shows a woman sleeping and an alarm clock

Featured Neuroscience

·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.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·May 25, 2021·4 min read

Feeling Lonely? Turn up the Volume!

Lonely and socially isolated people prefer higher volume sounds, such as loud music or background noise, compared to those who feel socially accepted, a new study reports.

Auditory Neuroscience Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 20, 2020·5 min read

How the Brain Distinguishes Speech From Noise

Study reports a pervasive neuromodulation system strongly influences sound processing in a key auditory region of the brain. Findings suggest acetylcholine may assist in the brain's ability to distinguish speech from other noise.

This shows people eating at a restaurant

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·September 29, 2020·3 min read

Noise Can Put You off Your Food

Relaxing music can help enhance enjoyment while dining, a new study reports. However, normal background noise in restaurants can have a negative impact on the dining experience.

$This shows arrows$

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 10, 2020·5 min read

Math Shows How Brain Stays Stable Amid Internal Noise and a Widely Varying World

Neural networks involved in the same computation will repeatedly converge toward the same firing rates, even if they are perturbed by the natural noisiness of individual neurons or sensory environmental stimuli.

This shows a head surrounded by lots of speech bubbles

Featured Neuroscience

·September 14, 2019·6 min read

How do brains tune in to one neural signal out of billions?

Two activities support the brain's ability to establish reliable connections in the presence of significant biological background noise.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 8, 2019·2 min read

How noise and age affect brain’s sound processing

Noise-induced hearing loss and hearing loss due to aging have different effects on sound processing in the brain. Researchers suggest each type of hearing loss should have its own specific treatment.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·December 20, 2016·6 min read

Pop-Outs: How the Brain Extracts Meaning From Noise

Auditory cortex neurons are able to pick out aspects of sounds associated with language, even in a 'noisy environment'.

Image shows blurry people crossing a busy street.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 26, 2016·3 min read

How Neurons Have Meta Adapted to Cope With Our Rowdy World

A new study reports as auditory neurons become more familiar with a sound environment, they speed up their adaption to the noisiness of that environment.