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·January 12, 2016·3 min read

Singing In the Brain: Songbirds’ Vocal Muscles Work Like Humans When Singing

A new study reports the vocal muscles of Bengalese finches change function to help produce different parameters of sounds, much like an opera singer.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·December 29, 2015·4 min read

Humans Not Alone in How We Perceive Melodic Pitch

Marmosets share a number of the same auditory features as humans, suggesting human components of pitch perception evolved much earlier than previously thought, a new study reports.

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Featured Neuroscience

·November 10, 2015·5 min read

It’s All In The Tone

A new study reports on neural communication pathways for prosody.

This is an illustration of a cochlear implant.

Featured Neurology

·October 9, 2013·4 min read

New Strategy Lets Cochlear Implant Users Hear Music

Researchers have developed a new way of processing signals in cochlear implants to help users hear music better.

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Singing In the Brain: Songbirds’ Vocal Muscles Work Like Humans When Singing

Humans Not Alone in How We Perceive Melodic Pitch

It’s All In The Tone

New Strategy Lets Cochlear Implant Users Hear Music

How Brain Cells Lock In Short-Term Memories

Microglia Rescue Vulnerable Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson’s

Statins Linked to Reduced Glaucoma Risk and Slower Progression

A Single Neural Circuit Unifies Multidimensional Prediction

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