From the NIH/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research news release: An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of…
From the Lehigh University press release: For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system — a group of neurons that regulate the functioning of more specialized neurons — strongly…
From the Aalto University press release: Humans can effortlessly recognize and react to natural sounds and are especially tuned to speech. There have been several studies aimed to localize and understand the speech-specific parts of…
From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: People with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds, potentially putting them more at risk of injury, according to new research published in…
From the Acoustical Society of America press release: Workplaces are full of sound, most of which is not helpful to workers trying to do their jobs. Scientists are using physics to understand how conversation, music…
From the Université de Genève press release: Why do the harsh sounds emitted by alarms or human shrieks grab our attention? What is going on in the brain when it detects these frequencies? Neuroscientists from…
From the Université de Genève press release: When two identical sounds are repeated quickly, a filter reduces the attention that the brain directs to the second sound it hears. In people with schizophrenia, this ability…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Data from individuals with different types of severe visual impairment suggest that the associations we make between sounds and shapes — a “smooth” b or a “spiky”…
From the University of Delaware press release: For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into…
From the University of Pittsburgh press release: For humans to achieve accurate speech recognition and communicate with one another, the auditory system must recognize distinct categories of sounds — such as words — from a…