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Leading the Way to Better Therapies for People with Hearing Loss, Speech Defecits
Tuesday, October 18th 2011
Frank Russo, developer of the Emoti-Chair, which allows hard-of-hearing people to hear music through vibrations, has received a grant to further his research into how people perceive emotional communication.
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Hearing Loss Could Accelerate Decline in Brain Volume in Seniors
Tuesday, September 6th 2011
A new study indicates that hearing loss, even mild hearing loss, can lead to brain atrophy in adults. Treatments, such as hearing aids, may help slow down this decline.
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Ida Institute Adds Web Content and Project Specialists
Thursday, September 1st 2011
Two new team members have joined the Ida Institute: Timothy Cooke as Web Content Editor and Ena Nielsen as Project Manager.
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Men May Have an Advantage Localizing Sounds in Background Noise
Tuesday, July 12th 2011
In a recent study, men were found to perform better localizing sounds in situations where background noise was present. This finding may be related to a mechanism in the brain that helps with attention.
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Hearing Sound: Bat Brains Offer New Clues
Monday, January 3rd 2011
GUMC neuroscientists have found neurons in the brains of bats that seem to shush other neurons when relevant communications sounds come in and is a process that may be working in humans as well.
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Sounds & Noise: Our Brain Helps Us Hear Ourselves Speak
Wednesday, December 22nd 2010
A new study shows that our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak. The findings may be helpful in better understanding some aspects of auditory hallucinations, such as those experienced by people who suffer from schizophrenia.
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Ear and Hearing: Healthy Ears Ignore Echos
Saturday, September 18th 2010
All sounds echo, but when a sound reaching the ear is loud enough, auditory neurons simply accept that sound and ignore subsequent reverberations.
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Hearing: Your Skin Helps You Hear
Sunday, August 29th 2010
Studies reveal our hearing is more than simply listening with our ears; in fact our hearing is skin deep, literally.
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Hearing Research: HEI Appoints Neil Segil, Ph.D., as VP of Research
Friday, June 25th 2010
The House Ear Institute (HEI) announced the appointment of Neil Segil, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President of Research and a new division that will increase collaborative research between HEI researchers and House Clinic physicians.
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The Cochlea: Pumping Up The Sound
Sunday, April 18th 2010
The phrase “perk up your ears” made more sense last year after scientists discovered how the quietest sounds are amplified in the cochlea before being transmitted to the brain.
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Hearing Research: Discovery Could Improve Hearing Aids
Thursday, April 8th 2010
A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. The new finding could lead to new, distinctly targeted therapies such as improved hearing aids.
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Duke Scientists Map Brain Pathway For Vocal Learning
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
By Duke Medicine News and Communications
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified neurons in the songbird brain that convey the auditory...
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Researchers Identify Protein Needed to Develop Auditory Neurons
Sunday, February 14th 2010
January 12, 2010 - Loss of spiral ganglion neurons or hair cells in the inner ear is the leading cause of congenital and acquired hearing impairment....
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Human Echolocation: Using Your Ears To "See" In The Dark
Thursday, February 4th 2010
Bats don't see very well. But they eat a bunch of mosquitoes by employing a form of sonar ? echolocation ? to snatch skeeters right out of the sky ? in...
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Hearing Motors That Rev Up Your Hearing
Tuesday, February 2nd 2010
A recent study from the University of Utah, co-authored by the Chair of the Bioengineering Department, Dr. Richard Rabbitt, has demonstrated that the human ear actually has tiny,...
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Tactile Input Affects What We Hear: UBC Study
Sunday, January 10th 2010
Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.
It is well known that humans...
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Finding Ways for Disabled People to Participate in Research is Goal of Case Western Reserve University Nursing School Study
Saturday, December 19th 2009
Cleveland, Oct. 29 - While the public has made accommodations for 54.4 million people with disabilities, many researchers regularly exclude people who cannot...
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Ida Institute Convenes Academic Panel to Explore Collaboration and Partnership
Thursday, December 10th 2009
Naerum, DK November 30 - Ida Institute recently convened a gathering of hearing care opinion leaders representing the audiology departments of 19 leading U.S....
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Babies with Position-Related Head Flattening May Have Higher Rate of Ear Infections
Saturday, November 7th 2009
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...
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Taking Up Music So You Can Hear
Sunday, September 27th 2009
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...
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Neural Pathway Missing in Tone-Deaf People
Friday, September 25th 2009
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...
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Gene Discovery Reveals a Critical Protein's Function in Hearing
Wednesday, September 23rd 2009
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...
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Hebrew U. Researchers Shed Light on the Brain Mechanism Responsible for Processing of Speech
Thursday, September 10th 2009
Research findings may contribute to improvement of voice recognition technologies
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in...
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Two UF Communication Science Departments Move Forward as One
Tuesday, September 8th 2009
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...
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Spanish Scientists Develop Echo-Location in Humans
Monday, August 3rd 2009
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...
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