News on Hearing Research

Naerum, DK November 30 - Ida Institute recently convened a gathering of hearing care opinion leaders representing the audiology departments of 19 leading U.S....

by Dave Tenenbaum Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent...

Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the...

"NTID Speechreading: CID Everyday Sentences Test" is now available on DVD to help audiologists and speech pathologists determine lip reading ability. See full-size photo A DVD...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2009) - Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have...

One of the causes of dizziness that can sometimes lead to a fall is vestibular disorder. A series of fluid-filled canals in the inner ear, the vestibular system, when healthy,...

The recommendation to lay babies on their backs to sleep has reduced sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but has led to an increased number of infants with a skull deformity called deformational...

A computer which automatically recognises sign language enables children who are deaf or hard of hearing to expand their sign language vocabulary more quickly. Jeroen Lichtenauer...

More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to 100 years if current life expectancy trends continue. And we are not only living longer than before, but those...

Deafness Research UK has awarded a new grant to Dr M Albert Basson and Dr Yuichiro Yaguchi of the Department of Crainiofacial Development at King's College London, to study how a...

Research Looks at Listening Effort and the Effects of Background Noise and Noise Reduction Minneapolis, Oct. 23, 2009 - The Starkey Hearing...

Dr. Craig Formby stands before his roto-tilt chair, which will aid in the study of...

Fourth International Conference Held in Portland, Oct. 7-9 Minneapolis, Oct. 9, 2009 - Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's...

A new study by the University of East Anglia suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans. The peer-reviewed findings...

Discovery Could Lead to New Therapies for Progressive Hearing Loss La Jolla, CA, September 3, 2009 - A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has discovered...

Musicians, trained to hear sounds embedded in a network of melodies and harmonies, are primed to understand speech in noisy settings. Evanston, Ill. - Anyone with an MP3 device...

Syndrome may be similar to other speech and language disorders Washington, DC - Nerve fibers that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf...

Discovery of a deafness-causing gene defect in mice has helped identify a new protein that protects sensory cells in the ear, according to a study led by University of Iowa...

Research findings may contribute to improvement of voice recognition technologies Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in...

The Seattle Quality of Life Group at the University of Washington in Seattle is conducting a study to understand the Quality of Life of Children and Youth who are Deaf or Hard of...

Gainesville, Fla. - Two University of Florida communication science departments have joined to form the largest academic program of its kind in Florida. The merger of the...

In genetics, as in life, surprising things can turn up in unexpected places. That was certainly the case when an international group of researchers found three mutations...

Program Focuses on Executive Function and how Children "Learn how to Learn" St. Louis, MO. - July 23, 2009 - A conference hosting leading experts in the fields of psychology,...

A team of researchers from the University of Alcala de Henares (UAH) has shown scientifically that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals...

Research could have implications for addressing hearing loss in humans The frog Huia...