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·February 5, 2014·3 min read

A Short Stay in Darkness May Heal Hearing Woes

Researchers find simulated blindness in adult mice sharpens the animal's hearing.

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·September 18, 2019·4 min read

Brain imaging shows how nonverbal children with autism have slower response to sounds

Nonverbal children on the autism spectrum have a slower response to auditory stimulation. The longer response times were associated with poor communication skills. Brain imaging of the auditory cortex could serve as a biomarker for measuring the likelihood of language impairment in those with ASD.

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·September 6, 2019·5 min read

How our brain filters sounds

The brain adjusts the attention it gives to identical sounds the moment they are perceived in the brainstem.

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·February 26, 2014·3 min read

In One Ear and Out the Other

Researchers report when it comes to memory, we don't remember things we hear as well as things we see.

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·June 21, 2021·2 min read

Listening to Mix of Sounds and Silence Preserves Temporal Sound Processing in Mice

Temporal sound processing can be maintained in mouse models of congenital hearing loss with exposure to broadband sounds embedded with pauses, a new study reports.

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·October 1, 2019·3 min read

Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound

The brain activity response to sound in older children with hearing loss was lower than their peers with normal hearing.

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·December 17, 2015·5 min read

Music in the Brain

Researchers have identified a neural population in the auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds categorized as music.

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·November 14, 2017·6 min read

Music Training Changes Children’s Brain Structure and Boosts Decision Making Network

In as little as two years of learning, music can change the structure of the brain's white matter and boost networks implicated in decision making in children, USC researchers report.