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Study Examines Function of Prosthetic Ears in Improving Hearing, Speech Recognition
Sunday, October 12th 2008
Chicago Prosthetic ears appear to improve hearing and speech recognition in noisy environments, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of Facial Plastic...
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OHSU Grows Hair Cells Involved in Hearing
Saturday, October 4th 2008
Successful production of functional sensory hair cells in the inner ears of mice suggests that a new therapy to regain hearing may be possibleAugust 27, 2008 - Portland, Ore...
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Measuring the Auditory Dynamics of Selective Attention
Thursday, October 2nd 2008
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...
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How We Hear Types Of Hearing Loss Explained
Tuesday, September 30th 2008
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.
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Sound Adds Speed to Visual Perception
Saturday, September 13th 2008
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...
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GN Otometrics and Fall Prevention Clinics of America' Team Up to Reduce U.S. Mortality Rates from Falls Injury
Friday, September 12th 2008
GN Otometrics and Fall Prevention Clinics of America' deliver leading edge diagnostics to Family Practice and Internal Medicine practices working with patients at risk for the...
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Tuning in to a New Language on the Fly: Effects of Context and Seasonality on Songbird Brain
Wednesday, September 10th 2008
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...
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Memory Impairment Associated with Sound Processing Disorder
Saturday, August 30th 2008
Chicago - Mild memory impairment may be associated with central auditory processing dysfunction, or difficulty hearing in complex situations with competing noise, such as hearing...
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Outer and Middle Ear Fossils Provide Clues to Origin of Speech
Tuesday, August 26th 2008
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...
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Progress, Pitfalls and Promises of Hearing Technology: An Expert's View
Monday, August 25th 2008
When it comes to modern hearing aids, it is not the technological advances that impress me the most, but the actual improvement in aided hearing capabilities, Dr. Ross says.
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New Research Helps Underscore Importance of ASHA Public Education Campaign
Thursday, August 21st 2008
2006 Poll Findings By Campaign Raised Concerns About Potential Hearing Loss Risk From Misuse of Personal Audio Technology(Rockville, MD - August 1, 2008) Noting the release of...
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Understanding Hearing, Molecule by Molecule
Wednesday, August 20th 2008
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...
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Location at the Ear Identified as an Increase Risk of Skin Cancer Recurring or Spreading
Thursday, August 7th 2008
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*...
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A Sonar System for the Blind
Tuesday, August 5th 2008
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...
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Tune-Deaf People May Hear a Sour Note Unconsciously
Sunday, August 3rd 2008
Findings Could Help Scientists Study ConsciousnessPeople with tune deafness arent able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains...
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Do Snakes Have Ears? How Do Snakes Hear Ssssssounds?
Monday, July 14th 2008
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...
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All About Balance: Scientists Identify Building Blocks of Inner Ear Structure
Monday, June 30th 2008
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....
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Remote Pools Boost Aboriginal Child Health
Monday, June 23rd 2008
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...
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Multicenter Clinical Trial Compares Effectiveness, Side Effects of Common Treatments for Sudden Deafness
Saturday, June 14th 2008
NIDCD-funded scientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), and 15 other sites around the United States, are conducting the largest effort to date to compare two...
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St. Jude Finds 'Dancing' Hair Cells are Key to Humans Acute Hearing
Friday, June 6th 2008
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...
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Linking Low Frequency Hearing to the Cochlea's Curvature
Wednesday, May 28th 2008
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...
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Deafness Research Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration
Friday, May 2nd 2008
New York, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is hosting a special 50th Anniversary Celebration to recognize a half century of in...
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Ventriloquism: Fooling the Brain
Monday, April 28th 2008
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....
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Aquarium Fish May Hold Key to Hearing Loss
Monday, April 14th 2008
A small striped fish is helping scientists understand what makes people susceptible to a common form of hearing loss.
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Linguist Tunes in to Pitch Processing in Brain
Tuesday, April 1st 2008
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...
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