Search results for auditory cortex:
Sound adds speed to visual perception
Aug 12, 2008 |
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The traditional view of individual brain areas involved in perception of different sensory stimuli—i.e., one brain region involved in hearing and another involved in seeing—has been thrown into doubt in recent years. A new ...
Selective attention increases both gain and feature selectivity of the human auditory cortex
Sep 19, 2007 |
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On Sept. 19, a research report by Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering scientists will appear in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, showing that selective attention increases both ...
Lend me your ears -- and the world will sound very different
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Recognising people, objects or animals by the sound they make is an important survival skill and something most of us take for granted. But very similar objects can physically make very dissimilar sounds and we are able to ...
Humans have more distinctive hearing than animals, study shows
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Do humans hear better than animals? It is known that various species of land and water-based living creatures are capable of hearing some lower and higher frequencies than humans are capable of detecting. However, scientists ...
How young mice phone home: Study gives clue to how mothers' brains screen for baby calls
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Emory University researchers have identified a surprising mechanism in the brains of mother mice that focuses their awareness on the calls of baby mice. Their study, published June 11 in Neuron, found that t ...
Age-related difficulty recognizing words predicted by brain differences
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 12, 2009 |
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Older adults may have difficulty understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research in the May 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that older adults with t ...
Scientists make progress in determining how the brain selectively interprets sound
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one particular sound ...
More than meets the ear in successful cocktail party conversations
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Just picture the scene: you’re at a cocktail party, talking to someone you would like to get to know better but the background noise is making it hard to concentrate. Luckily, humans are very gifted at listening to someone ...
Irrelevant sounds automatically ignored
Jun 19, 2006 |
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Canadian researchers say overexposure to irrelevant sounds can cause the brain to ignore them in favor of other auditory stimuli.
Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
Human auditory neurons more sensitive than those of other mammals
Jan 16, 2008 |
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The human ear is exquisitely tuned to discern different sound frequencies, whether such tones are high or low, near or far. But the ability of our ears pales in comparison to the remarkable knack of single neurons in our ...
Do you hear what i see?
Feb 20, 2007 |
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New research pinpoints specific areas in sound processing centers in the brains of macaque monkeys that shows enhanced activity when the animals watch a video.
Touch helps make the connection between sight and hearing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2009 |
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The sense of touch allows us to make a better connection between sight and hearing and therefore helps adults to learn to read. This is what has been shown by the team of Édouard Gentaz, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire ...
Why can’t I learn a new language?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Adults, even the brightest ones, often struggle with learning new languages. Dr Nina Kazanina in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bristol explains why.
Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
Apr 11, 2007 |
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In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain. ...
