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With Age Comes Hearing Loss and Greater Risk of Cognitive Decline

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 12, 2019

Researchers report hearing impairment is associated with an increased rate of cognitive decline as we age. However, the study revealed the impact of hearing loss on cognition was lessened for those who had a college level education.... Read More...

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Hearing and Deaf Infants Process Information Differently

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 6, 2019

A new study reports it takes longer for deaf infants to become familiar with new objects. Researchers say the study highlights a difference in how infants process information, even when the information is not auditory in nature.... Read More...

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Difficulties with Audiovisual Processing Contributes to Childhood Dyslexia

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 16, 2019

A new neuroimaging study reveals tasks that require audiovisual processing are extremely difficult for children with dyslexia. The findings could lead to new tests that help identify the disorder before children fall behind their peers.... Read More...

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The Sleeping Brain Remains Attentive to Its Environment

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 15, 2019

Researchers demonstrate our brains can track sounds within the environment as we sleep. The study suggests this ability could allow us to sleep in safety and wake at the correct moment. ... Read More...

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Auditory Testing at Birth Could Identify Children at Risk of ASD

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 7, 2019

Researchers report a non-invasive hearing test given shortly after birth may help doctors identify children at risk of ASD. ... Read More...

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Passive Exposure Alone Can Enhance the Learning of Foreign Speech Sounds

Neuroscience NewsDecember 17, 2018

A new study reveals passive exposure to foreign speech sounds over the course of several consecutive days helps enhance discrimination abilities and language learning. ... Read More...

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Researchers Report Findings From Havana Embassy Phenomenon

Neuroscience NewsDecember 12, 2018

Researchers present their findings about the acute neurosensory symptoms experienced by workers in the Havana embassy exposed to a unique sound and pressure phenomenon in 2016. ... Read More...

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Being Yelled At: Our Brain on Alert in a Flash

Neuroscience NewsDecember 7, 2018

Researchers report our brain is on high alert while listening to voices, finding we respond much faster to vocal aggression than normal or happy voices. The reason, researchers say, could be that our attention is more focused on threatening voices to help us recognize the location of a potential threat.... Read More...

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How Sounds Going Through Our Ears Become the Words Going Through Our Brains

Neuroscience NewsNovember 29, 2018

A new study reveals how the brain processes sound and how quickly neurons transition from processing the sound of speech to the language based words.... Read More...

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Real Time MRI Shows How Beatboxers Produce Sound

Neuroscience NewsNovember 14, 2018

A new study uses real time MRI data to observe the vocal tracts of beatboxers before they produce a sound to see if the movements are different from speech.... Read More...

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Just How Blind Are Bats?

Neuroscience NewsOctober 18, 2018

Researchers report not all bats are blind, but some have selected superior acoustic abilities over vision through evolution.... Read More...

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How Dogs Process Words

Neuroscience NewsOctober 16, 2018

A new neuroimaging study reveals how dogs process words they have been taught to associate with objects. Findings suggest dogs have a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words they have been taught.... Read More...

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With Age Comes Hearing Loss and Greater Risk of Cognitive Decline

Hearing and Deaf Infants Process Information Differently

Difficulties with Audiovisual Processing Contributes to Childhood Dyslexia

The Sleeping Brain Remains Attentive to Its Environment

Auditory Testing at Birth Could Identify Children at Risk of ASD

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Being Yelled At: Our Brain on Alert in a Flash

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