New System Might Help Reading Lips Through Face Masks
A new system capable of reading lips with remarkable accuracy even when speakers are wearing face...
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Researchers Use Implant to Study Human Speech
Using an ultra-lightweight, wireless implant, a University of Arizona team is researching songbirds – one of the few species that share humans' ability to learn new vocalizations – to improve scientific understanding of human speech.
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UVA Researchers Find Potential Contributor to Age-related Hearing Loss
The auditory receptors of the inner ear, called hair cells, pick up sounds using a vibration-sensing antenna called the hair bundle. While much research into hearing loss has focused on the hair bundle, UVA’s discovery spotlights the foundations those antennas stand on.
52 Genes Critical for Hearing Newly Identified by Researchers at MRC Harwell
The study, published in “Nature Communications,” tested 3,006 strains of “knock-out” mice for signs of hearing loss.
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Schwann Cell Disruption May Lead to Hidden Hearing Loss, Researchers Find
In research published in “Nature Communications,” University of Michigan researchers report a new unexpected cause for this auditory neuropathy, a step toward the eventual work to identify treatments.
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CIB2 Protein Found to be Part of Sound Wave Translation Process
The findings were published June 29 in “Nature Communications.“ The study is reportedly the first to illuminate in detail how a particular protein, which is known as CIB2, allows hearing to work.
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Researchers Identify Brain Factors Linked to Success of Cochlear Implants
Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualizing the brain’s activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganization processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life. The results of this research may be found in Nature Communications.
Read MoreNIH Researchers Discover Key Factor in Early Auditory System Development
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have uncovered a molecule in an animal model that acts as a key player in establishing the organization of the auditory system.
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