News tagged with acoustic environment
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 ...
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Singing in the rainforest: Public vs. private signaling by a tropical rainforest bird
Biology /
Feb 13, 2008 |
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According to the Chinese proverb, a bird sings because it has a song, not because it has an answer. A team of French and Brazilian researchers, however, may have the answer as to how the song of Brazilian white-browed warbler ...
Some Ningaloo Reef fish are 'homebodies'
Jun 18, 2009 |
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New research shows that some fish species in Western Australia's Ningaloo Marine Park spend most of their time close to home, staying on the reef rather than travelling significant distances, as was previously thought.
Whale songs are heard for the first time around New York City waters
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Sep 16, 2008 |
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For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the Bioacoustics Research Program at the ...
Tuning in to a new language on the fly: Effects of context and seasonality on songbird brain
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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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 cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ...
Technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels
Sep 03, 2009 |
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An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels, Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion—paving the way ...
Canaries: A bad performance is better than no performance at all (w/Audio)
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The learning of birdsong resembles the learning of speech in humans. Crucial for the process are acoustic perception and the ability to produce sound. Social isolation leads to a disturbed ...
Deep-sea sharks wired for sound
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing.
Bluebeat to battle EMI over Beatles songs
Nov 07, 2009 |
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US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.
How the brain separates audio signals from noise
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Jun 10, 2008 |
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How are we able to follow a single conversation in the midst of a crowded and noisy room? Little is known about how the human brain accomplishes the seemingly simple task of extracting meaningful signals from noisy acoustic ...
Mountain Winds May Create Atmospheric Hotspots
Oct 19, 2005 |
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Rapidly fluctuating wind gusts blowing over mountains and hills can create "hotspots" high in the atmosphere and significantly affect regional air temperatures.
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