News tagged with auditory
Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we're listening to. But when following our own speech, a new brain study from UC ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline: study
Specialized brain training targeted at the regions of a rat's brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Researchers find how brain hears the sound of silence (w/ Video)
A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Research discovers how the deaf have super vision
Deaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now, no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Stephen Lomber of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 10, 2010 |
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Parts of brain can switch functions: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech
Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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New brain findings on dyslexic children
The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Sound effects inspired Stonehenge: US scientist
Ancient legends of thunder gods can be explained today with the modern science of sound waves, said a US scientist on Thursday who believes an auditory illusion inspired the creation of Stonehenge.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Adults with dyslexia have problems with non-speech sounds too
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dyslexia is usually associated with persistent reading, spelling, and sometimes speech difficulties that are hard to overcome. One theory proposed to explain the condition is that people with dyslexia suffer ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Great apes know they could be wrong
orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas - realize that they can be wrong when making choices, according to Dr. Josep Call from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Seeing the brain hear reveals surprises about how sound is processed
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows our brains are a lot more chaotic than previously thought, and that this might be a good thing. Neurobiologists at the University of Maryland have discovered information ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Blind people use both visual and auditory cortices to hear
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blind people have brains that are rewired to allow their visual cortex to improve hearing abilities. Yet they continue to access specialized areas to recognize human voices, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Hand-held device may prevent migraine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new portable device that delivers a magnetic pulse to the back of the head could prevent or treat migraines in people susceptible to them.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Making the invisible visible: Verbal -- not visual -- cues enhance visual detection
Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 12, 2010 |
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