Hearing Research

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

A small striped fish is helping scientists understand what makes people susceptible to a common form of hearing loss.

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...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders estimates that there are currently 615,000 people with diagnosed Meniere's in the United States and 45,500 new cases are diagnosed each year.

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...

December 19, 2007 - A new neuroimaging study conducted by researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University and the Universit de Montral at 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...

Virginia Commonwealth University will use a federal grant to determine how disabilities that are present at birth affect how physicians identify, evaluate and treat hearing loss...

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