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