Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

Auditory brainstem processing underpins our ability to determine the location of sounds in space, a function that is essential for navigation, communication, and environmental awareness. At the heart ...

Ever find yourself saying “What?” even though you understood the gist of the conversation? This seemingly small habit could reveal something deeper. Research ...

Speech perception and recognition constitute essential cognitive functions that enable individuals to transform acoustic signals into meaningful linguistic constructs. This process involves the ...

Understanding Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) Auditory Processing Disorder represents a complex hearing challenge that affects how the brain interprets sounds despite normal hearing thresholds. It ...

Auditory integration training is sometimes promoted by practitioners as a way to retrain the auditory system and decrease hearing distortion. It is important to know that much research is still needed ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

Scientists have developed mice with improved hearing to learn more about the mysteries surrounding hearing loss. To accomplish this, University of Michigan neurobiologist Lingchao Ji and his team ...