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Auditory Neuroscience news articles cover science research into hearing, processing sound, auditory cortex, understanding speech, hearing disorders, cochlear implants, language, functions of the ears, deafness, auditory hallucinations, and how brains and nervous systems in general respond to sounds.

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·August 15, 2017·5 min read

Brain Responses to Lip-Reading Can Benefit Cochlear Implant Users

Contrary to common belief, lip reading can have a beneficial effect for those with cochlear implants. Researchers found the more a person's brain responded to lip reading, the more responsive the brain became to sound delivered through the implant.

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·August 2, 2017·5 min read

Use It or Lose It

LMU researchers report neural activity in the auditory system has a direct effect on myelination. Higher levels of neural activity resulted in the formation of thicker myelin sheaths and enhanced speed of signal transmission.

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·July 18, 2017·4 min read

Hearing a Sound Can Alter Perception of Finger Size

Hearing ascending sounds causes people to estimate the length of their fingers to be longer than when they hear a descending or constant sound, report UCL researchers.

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·July 5, 2017·3 min read

Gaze Direction Affects Sound Sensitivity

A new study reports that listening to something while looking in a different direction may slow reaction times and increase the effort for auditory attention.

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·June 30, 2017·5 min read

Controlling a Single Brain Chemical May Help Expand Window for Learning Language and Music

Using mouse models, researchers restricted a key chemical messenger to extend efficient auditory learning until much later in life. Disrupting adenosine signaling in the auditory thalamus allowed researchers to extend the window for auditory learning well into adulthood and far beyond the current critical period.

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·June 29, 2017·4 min read

Social Status of Listener Alters Our Voice

According to researchers, people tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to and how dominant they feel. The study found that a person's vocal characteristics altered in response to people of different social status. When a person was believed to be more dominant, people's voices became more high pitched.

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·June 29, 2017·5 min read

Key Mechanism Behind Some Forms of Deafness Identified

Researchers have identified a new protein, CIB2, that is key to helping the auditory system to turn soundwaves into meaningful brain signals. Mutations of this gene leave people unable to convert the soundwaves into signals that the brain can interpret, and are deaf.