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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

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