Researchers Uncover Brain Region’s Role in Hearing and Learning
The orbitofrontal cortex helps the auditory cortex adapt to varying listening contexts, offering insight to treat impairment disorders.
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Your Degree of Noise Sensitivity Depends on Your Brain
The degree to which you are disturbed by the noises of everyday life may be related to how your brain processes variations in the sound stream or sound environment, according to new research findings. Further, genetics may play a role in the degree of your sensitivity.
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Exposure to Sudden Sound Creates Longterm Memories, Study Finds
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center say their study is the first to explore a connection between hearing and the formation of memories, and also the first to improve hearing by stimulating the locus coeruleus brain region and its neural network.
Like Bats, We Use Both Sides of Brain to Listen
Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, some bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process different aspects of sounds.
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Study Shows How Brain Captures Sound
A team of researchers at the University of Oregon conducted a study that shows how the brain captures sound and processes it, transforming its rhythmic structure via the auditory system.
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Scientists Map Tinnitus in Human Brain during Surgery
Researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to record and map tinnitus in the brain of a patient undergoing surgery, with the goal of finding the brain networks responsible for this condition characterized by “phantom noise.”
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Scientists Say Brain’s Speech Center Turns off during Speech
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University say that the brain’s speech center, known as Broca’s area, turns off during speech.
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The Smithsonian: Oral Retainer Delivers Sound Signals to Your Tongue
A Smithsonian article reports how researchers from Colorado State University (CSU) have developed a special oral retainer prototype that delivers sound signals to your tongue, which your brain can learn to interpret as a sort of “braille.”
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Playing Musical Instruments Can Help Kids’ Brains
According to a recent study from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, learning to play the violin or piano might help kids’ brains by giving them some added benefits in key behavioral areas of the cortex.
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Sound Training May Reduce Distractibility in Aging Brain
Research from scientists at UCSF explores why the aging brain finds it increasingly difficult to ignore distractions, and what we can do about it.
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Harry Potter Book Helps Scientists Understand Brain Processes
To identify how different regions of the brain are activated when we read, CMU scientists conducted a study in which participants read a Harry Potter book.
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Study Finds That the Aging Brain Retains Plasticity for Learning
A new study from Brown University reveals that an aging brain has the plasticity to learn tasks, but likely uses white matter instead of gray matter for learning.
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Young Baby Brains Rehearse Sounds
Infants can tell the difference between sounds of all languages until about 8 months of age when their brains start to focus only on the sounds they hear around them.
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New Research Indicates People with Tinnitus Process Emotions Differently
Patients with tinnitus process emotions differently in the brain from those with normal hearing, researchers report in the journal Brain Research.
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