Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an international team of researchers (including a classical pianist, a rock drummer, and a concert bassist) asked hundreds of people what stories they imagined when listening to instrumental music.
The researchers used a machine learning algorithm to map which brain regions are activated when the different music-induced emotions are separated from each other.
Pure Charge&Go X is a receiver-in-canal (RIC) device that includes “the world’s first acoustic-motion sensors,” according to the company's announcement. Since a hearing aid wearer’s sound environment can change suddenly, this technology can reportedly adapt to changes in their soundscape and detect when the wearer is in motion, responding automatically to “deliver natural and personalized sound from any direction, in any situation—even when moving.”
The vision of this new grant project is to implant an electrode array directly into the auditory nerve. This approach not only provides access to the hearing pathway for those who cannot be implanted into the cochlea, but may also improve activation of the auditory pathway to the brain that could be helpful for hearing in noisy environments and music.
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A study at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics examined the influence of different information on the evaluation of music by listeners.
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More than 1,000 Cochlear™ Nucleus® Implant and Baha® System recipients and their families from the United States and Canada will come together at the four-day convention to celebrate the joys, challenges, and personal triumphs of overcoming hearing loss, while improving their hearing performance.
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The results published in “Music Perception” show that the auditory skills of hearing-impaired children are connected to the amount of singing and music in their everyday lives.
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New research from The Ohio State University has found that young people with subtle hearing loss—the kind they aren’t even aware of—are putting demands on their brains that typically wouldn’t be seen until later in life.
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It is almost as if music has something in common with everything: psychology, physiology, acoustics, engineering, most areas of the arts, and now, the lowly spondee.
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The new research into hearing loss in the UK reveals that 21% of respondents experience tinnitus symptoms such as ringing, buzzing, or persistent noise in their ears.
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Patricia Johnson, AuD, offers a perspective on the history and development of hearing protection and earplugs for musicians.
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Hearing loss prevention helps maintain lifelong musical enjoyment. According to authors John Hutchings, MD, and Bethany Ewald Bultman, when performing or listening to music, one should always employ high-quality earplugs, avoid undue direct exposure to the sound, and limit alcohol intake which can lessen awareness of the pain of louder sounds.
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House of Blues, a national chain of live music concert halls and restaurants, has announced the addition of Vibes Hi-Fidelity Earplugs to their list of product offerings for music fans at all their locations to help promote hearing conservation.
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MED-EL USA launched a Spotify playlist of popular holiday music specially designed for cochlear implant users. The playlist, “MED-EL Music for the Holidays,” includes 24 songs developed using research-based criteria.
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For many sound monitor engineers working in the music industry, a pair of good in-ear monitors (IEMs) are crucial to success. One engineer has found that Sensaphonics 2MAX in-ear monitors work best for him when sound engineering for touring music artists.
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Starkey announces the success of its Synergy® platform, which is driven by its quad core twin compressor technology and powers the company’s Muse™ wireless hearing aids. Starkey also announces the launch of the Muse BTE 13 hearing aid, particularly suitable for music lovers.
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Touring musician Jeff Snider preserves his hearing with 2X-S custom in-ear monitors and a dB Check in-ear sound level analyzer from Sensaphonics, which have improved his onstage monitoring on the road.
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Researchers have found that the parts of the inner ear that process speech and music seem to work differently than other parts of the inner ear. Using technology designed for examining the eye, they measured the inner ear response to sound without having to open the surrounding bone structures.
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