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,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
