Hearing Research

Exploring the various performance times needed to pick out specific sounds in a complex scene(Boston) - Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a...

The outer, middle and inner ear structures can be impacted to cause hearing loss. Hearing loss can be conductive, mixed or sensorineural in nature. Treatment may be different for different types of hearing loss. Hearing aids are most commonly used.

The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimulii.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeinghas...

Research conducted at Rutgers University has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the...

A study examining auditory abilities using human fossils from the Pleistocene era offers new clues about the origins of speech, suggesting it may have emerged earlier than...

Berkeley Lab scientists have for the first time pieced together the three-dimensional structure of one of natures most exquisite pieces of machinery, a gossamer-like filament of...

The risk of cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma (skin cancer) recurring or spreading around the body is increased when tumour thickness exceeds 6.0 mm or when desmoplastic growth*...

Echolocation is a method of perceiving the world by emitting noises, then listening to the reflections of these noises off objects in the environment. Animals use echolocation...

Whats the connection between nautical physics and snakes?According to the Discovery web site, researchers in the U.S. and Germany employed the physics of bobbing boats to...

Watch a bird overhead, turn toward a friend at your side, or exult in a cartwheel, and without knowing it, you are taking advantage of the vestibular portion of your inner ear....

19 May, 2008 - A new study has found that swimming pools in remote Aboriginal communities can dramatically reduce rates of skin, ear and chest infections.Researchers from Perths...

Memphis, Tennessee, May 7, 2008 - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is...

By David F. Salisbury, Published: April 25, 2008Shape matters, even in hearing.Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear conv...

Theres nothing funnier than a good ventriloquist, called vents in the show business world. Using a variety of dummies, these professional entertainers keep audiences in stitches....

West Lafayette, Ind. -More of the brain is busy processing pitch from language and other sounds than previously thought, according to a researcher in neurophonetics at Purdue...

Los Angeles February 19, 2008 The House Ear Institute (HEI) announces the appointment of David I. Meyer, Ph.D., as executive vice president of research effective March 2008. H...

Houston(Jan. 07, 2008)In the middle of the night, as you hear the buzzing of a mosquito, your skin begins to prickle, anticipating that the annoying insect is about to light on...

Researchers implant electrodes in the brain, and use the soundtrack from 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'The human ear is exquisitely tuned to discern different sound...

Researchers have established how a molecule in the inner ear of mammals helps fine-tune auditory perception. Their findings help explain how the brain communicates with the inner...

Many of us may have an ear for music, but what about our brains? Is there such a thing as brain for music?There seems to be.Several scientific studies lead us to believe that the...

Houston -- (December 14, 2007) -- Levels of cholesterol in the membranes of hair cells in the inner ear can affect your hearing, said a consortium of researchers from Baylor...

Remember that wonder childrens book, Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss. A favorite for generations. Horton, an elephant, shows the remarkable ability to hear (but not see) the...

Dec. 10, 2007 - AMHERST, Mass. Infants refine and narrow their ability to discriminate between things they see and hear in their first year, revealing what appears to be decline...

Discovery could lead to improved hearing aidsMIT Professor Dennis Freeman, left, graduate student Roozbeh Ghaffari and research scientist Alexander J. Aranyosi have found that...

Evanston, Ill. --- Think about the confused feelings that occur when you meet someone whose tone of voice doesn't seem to quite fit with his or her gender. A new study by...