Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 27, 2020·3 min readHearing aids may delay cognitive decline93% of study participants showed improvement in cognitive and executive function after using a hearing aid.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·February 27, 2020·3 min readUsing a cappella to explain speech and music specializationUsing Cappella recordings, researchers discover humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·February 17, 2020·1 min readBinaural beats synchronize brain activity, don’t affect moodBinaural beats, a form of auditory illusion, caused far apart brain regions to synchronize with each other at a different frequency than the beat. The auditory illusion did not, however, alter mood.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·February 10, 2020·3 min readSensory perception is not superficial brain workWhen exposed to auditory stimulation, visual areas of the brain decreased in activity. Findings suggest sound can strongly draw attention away from what we are looking at.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 28, 2020·3 min readMouse brain region processes sound and motion at the same timeMovement and sound are processed simultaneously in the inferior colliculus, a new mouse study reveals.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·January 19, 2020·4 min readThe eyes can measure hearingEye-tracking and pupil dilation may be a new way to measure a person's hearing ability.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 2, 2020·3 min readHearing develops in tandem with form and functionFindings may provide clues that may help researchers develop new techniques to regenerate hair cells in the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·January 2, 2020·2 min readHearing through lip-readingLip reading causes brain activity to synchronize with sound waves, even when there is no audible sound.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·December 13, 2019·4 min readReconstructing spoken words as processed in nonhuman primate brainsUsing artificial intelligence and brain-computer interface technology, researchers reconstructed English words from neural signals recorded from the brains of non-human primates.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·November 26, 2019·3 min readThe human brain is prepared to follow the rhythm of a song or of a danceRegardless of musical training, a person's brain synchronizes with the rhythm of music, but musicians' brain responses are much stronger and more resistant to distraction.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceAutismFeaturedNeuroscience·October 23, 2019·5 min readDrug combination reverses hypersensitivity to noiseSummary: Treating mouse models of autism with modafinil and EBIO reduced hypersensitivity to noise. Source: MIT People with autism often...Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscience·October 21, 2019·5 min readHow the brain dials up the volume to hear someone in a crowdWhen a person listens to another person talking, their brain waves alter to select specific features of the speaker's voice and tune out other voices.Read More