Researchers have shown that the brain’s primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations associated with positive emotions and coming from our left side than to any other kind of ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

Many people, especially the elderly, suffer from abnormal sleep. In particular, the deep sleep phases become shorter and shallower with age. Deep sleep is important for the regeneration of the brain ...

A Johns Hopkins study identifies a previously unknown neural 'shortcut' in mice that organizes the auditory system before ...

India, July 17 -- Discover how a baby's brain prepares for hearing before birth, paving the way for language learning and ...

Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

You might have heard of the cochlear implant. It’s an electronic device also referred to as a neuroprosthesis, serving as a bionic replacement for the human ear. These implants have brought an ...

In a recent article published in Nature, researchers investigated the early maturation of sound duration processing, a crucial auditory temporal feature. Study: Early maturation of sound duration ...

This post is part one of a series. Speaking feels like the most natural thing in the world. You think a thought, open your mouth, and words tumble out in perfect sequence. Yet this apparent simplicity ...

When scientists played classical music, nursery rhymes, drumbeats, baby talk and regular speech, they found that 120 children ...