“With cochlear implants, we’ve always been oriented more toward speech sounds,” says Jay Rubinstein, MD. “This strategy represents a different way of thinking about signal processing for music.”
Read MoreIs forgotten information lost or just inaccessible? The first case of a musical hallucination in which the person did not recognize the hallucinated music but others did is shedding new light on memory and the brain.
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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is collaborating with Bach to Rock (B2R) music school to help foster hearing protection education in B2R’s network of schools.
Read MoreNon-musicians who speak tonal languages may have a better ear for learning musical notes, according to researchers.
Read MoreA physician and neurologist has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations.
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Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learnt and not based on natural ability, a new study has found.
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Musical training before the age of seven has a significant effect on the development of the brain, showing that those who began early had stronger connections between motor regions — the parts of the brain that help you plan and carry out movements.
Read MoreAlthough rare, musical tinnitus has been reported in the literature. This article presents a case study of a 56-year-old woman whose musical tinnitus began days after receiving a cochlear implant and having it activated.
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Information on the risk of loud music to hearing, education on ear protection, and audiological services, and measures of iPod volume should lead to better ear protection strategies by university music students and faculty.
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Researchers in the voice, speech, and language branch of NIDCD at the National Institutes of Health have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brain activity of rappers when they are “freestyling”—spontaneously improvising.
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EAR Inc has released “Acoustical Confusion: Talking Hearing Loss Blues,” an entertaining and educational music video designed to promote hearing protection.
Read MoreEAR Inc has released “Acoustical Confusion: Talking Hearing Loss Blues,” an entertaining and educational music video designed to promote hearing protection.
Read MoreA little music training in childhood goes a long way in improving how the brain functions in adulthood when it comes to listening and the complex processing of sound, according to a new Northwestern University study.
Read MoreMusic theorist researchers at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) believe that music underlies the ability to acquire language. Prevailing theories are that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a by-product of language.
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The ultimate “brass ring” for hearing care professionals might be to please highly discerning musicians and music-philes who use our hearing aids. Admittedly, it can be a tall order. I’ve seen musician friends turn up their noses at what
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