Honoring Nelson YS Kiang
Nelson YS Kiang, PhD, founder of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories and Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Harvard Medical School, passed away at the age of 93.
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Predicting How Children Learn Words
Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A 2-year-old might be able to say just a handful of words, while a 5-year-old is quite likely to know many thousands.
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MIT to Provide Captioning for Online Videos
The settlement is part of a a case brought against the school that alleged it discriminated against deaf and hard-of-hearing people, according to “AP.”
Inner Ear Stem Cells Hold Promise for Restoring Hearing
New evidence in a mouse model shows that spiral ganglion stem cells present in the inner ear are capable of self-renewal.
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Game Technology Teaches Mice and Men to Hear Better in Noisy Environments
When combined with conventional assistive devices, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, “audiogames” may be able to provide hearing impaired individuals with an improved ability to reconnect to the auditory world, says the researchers.
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Nanopores Underlie Our Ability to Tune In a Single Voice
Inner-ear membrane uses tiny pores to mechanically separate sounds, researchers find.
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