From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Researchers have clarified the development of the ability to attend to a speaker in a noisy environment — a phenomenon known as the “cocktail party effect.” Published in JNeurosci,…
From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release: How is it that a sound can send a chill down your spine? By observing individual brain cells of mice, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)…
From the University of Nottingham press release: Even with an acute sense of hearing adults don’t always pick up exactly what someone has said. That’s because from childhood to adulthood we rely on vision to…
From the City University London press release: The way we process sight and sound are curiously out of sync by different amounts for different people and tasks, according to a new study from City, University…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is actually said, according to a human neuroimaging study…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the “ventriloquist illusion” and its aftereffect, but research suggests…
From the New York University press release: The “loudness” of our thoughts — or how we imagine saying something — influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds, a team of researchers from…
From the Université de Genève press release: Gestures and facial expressions betray our emotional state but what about our voices? How does simple intonation allow us to decode emotions — on the telephone, for example?…
From the University of Helsinki press release: Recent functional studies conducted at the University of Helsinki and Aarhus University suggest that noise sensitivity, a trait describing attitudes towards noise and predicting noise annoyance, is associated…
From the Acoustical Society of America press release: The acoustics of a political speech delivery are known to be a powerful influencer of voter preferences, perhaps giving some credence to the saying, “It’s not what…