Researchers at McMaster University who study how the brain processes sound have discovered the common practice of using artificial tones in perception experiments could mean scientists are overlooking ...

The ringing never stops. For roughly 750 million people worldwide, according to a 2022 systematic review in JAMA Neurology, ...

Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

The relationship among the senses is more complex than it appears in our everyday lives. No sense operates in isolation; ...

Detection decisions (red for absence, blue for presence) are based on the disjunctive integration rule (disjunction and negation of disjunction). Confidence decisions (dashed line for not sure, full ...

Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci. To treat severe cases of ...

Acute perceptual effects and long-term auditory health are separate questions. A cross-sectional NHANES analysis by Qian and ...

Three decades of psychological research show that our visual and auditory senses work together. Famously, an experiment by Robert Sekuler (1997) found that the presence or absence of a clicking sound ...

“I think there is something wrong with his [her] hearing,” is a comment I often hear from parents of children on the spectrum, pertaining to the atypical auditory processing they notice in their loved ...