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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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·May 30, 2017·4 min read

Auditory Processing: Where Microseconds Matter

Researchers identify a mechanism that allows mammals to perceive minimal differences in timing of signal reception in order to localize sounds.

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·April 28, 2017·3 min read

Expert Unravels Disease That Took the Hearing of World-Famous Painter

Researchers propose Francisco Goya may have suffered from Susac's syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that robbed him of his hearing.

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·April 21, 2017·4 min read

Speech Comprehension Improves With a Slight Auditory Delay For Some

Researchers report a potential benefit in delaying the time between audio and visual signals in improving speech comprehension.

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·April 18, 2017·5 min read

Hearing Tests Miss Common Form of Hearing Loss

Researchers report many hearing tests fail to pick up a common form of inner ear damage that leads to hearing loss.

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·April 11, 2017·5 min read

Success of Sensory Cell Regeneration Raises Hope for Hearing Restoration

By manipulating two genes, researchers have been able to regenerate immature auditory hair cells.

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·April 7, 2017·2 min read

Study Aims to See How Children with Cochlear Implants Learn Words

A new study aims to discover how children with cochlear implants learn new words differently from children with normal hearing.

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·March 30, 2017·4 min read

How The Sounds of Nature Help Us to Relax

Listening to the sounds of nature creates an outward directed focus of attention, helping us to relax, a new study reports.

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·March 27, 2017·4 min read

Improving Memory With Magnets

A new study reveals people showed improvements in auditory memory when transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied.

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·March 25, 2017·7 min read

Astrocytes Keep Time For Brain and Behavior

A new study reveals astrocytes play an surprisingly important role in the body's circadian clock.

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·March 15, 2017·6 min read

The Way The Brain Processes Speech Could Serve as a Predictor of Early Dementia

Noticeable communication problems may be an early sign of mild cognitive impairment, a new study reports.

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·February 27, 2017·3 min read

If You Get the Chills From Music, You May Have a Unique Brain

People who physically respond to music with chills have stronger fiber connections between the auditory cortex and emotional processing areas in the brain.