News tagged with noisy background

Two new records: The world's strongest and purest neutron beam

The world's strongest neutron beam is produced by a scientific instrument at the research neutron source FRM II (Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) at the Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM). ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments.  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Taking up music so you can hear

Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Hearing the words beneath the noise

Hearing aids and cochlear implants act as tiny amplifiers so the deaf and hard-of-hearing can make sense of voices and music. Unfortunately, these devices also amplify background sound, so they're less effective in a noisy ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing

So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0