New Baycrest research reveals that the brain remembers what we see and what we hear in different ways. Visual memories tend ...
Auditory cortex is required for sound localisation, but how neural firing in auditory cortex underlies our perception of sound sources in space remains unclear. Specifically, whether neurons in ...
No one has come to the psychiatric ER saying, "I have have voices in my head telling me they love me and think I am beautiful." By definition, auditory hallucinations are unpleasant. They reinforce ...
When you're suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to be re-tuning to recognize speech that was previously ...
Neural adaptation enables sensory information to be represented optimally in the brain despite large fluctuations over time in the statistics of the environment. Auditory contrast gain control ...
Babies learning to talk rely on their ears far more than on the movements of their own mouths, according to a body of ...
Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be suffering from auditory processing disorder (APD).