From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville press release: Water dripping. A shovel scraping across rock. These sounds don’t seem very musical. Yet new research at the University of Arkansas shows… Read more »
From the University of Helsinki press release: The brain’s auditory system can be shaped by exposure to different auditory environments, such as native language and musical training. A recent doctoral… Read more »
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: When you are out in the woods and hear a cracking sound, your brain needs to process quickly whether the sound… Read more »
From the NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development press release: Infant cries activate specific brain regions related to movement and speech, according to a National Institutes… Read more »
From the McGill University press release: Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now… Read more »
From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified neurons in the human brain that respond to pitch changes in spoken language, which… Read more »
From the Durham University press release: People who hear voices that other people can’t hear may use unusual skills when their brains process new sounds, according to research led by Durham… Read more »
From the CNRS press release: The human brain’s capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of white noise, like that produced… Read more »
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals by sensory hair cells and… Read more »
From the University of Royal Holloway London press release: New research published in Scientific Reports shows that a heartbeat-like vibration delivered onto the inside of the wrist can make the wearer… Read more »
