News tagged with auditory system
New brain findings on dyslexic children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
Researchers studying hearing loss find auditory regions of the brain convert to the sense of touch
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain.
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Iron deficiency in womb may delay brain maturation in preemies
May 04, 2009 |
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Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. This delay could ...
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 ...
A million people suffer from tinnitus -- in province of Quebec alone
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Université de Montréal Professor Sylvie Hébert is conducting a study exploring the root causes of tinnitus, a condition that creates the perception of sound in the absence of external stimulation. Tinnitus affects 20 percent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Looking for the origins of music in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Music serves as a natural and non-invasive intervention for patients with severe neurological disorders to promote long-term memory, social interaction and communication. However, there is currently no plausible explanation ...
How our senses combine to give us a better view of the world
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 12, 2008 |
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From a young age we are taught about the five senses and how they help us to explore our world. Although each sense seems to be its own entity, recent studies have indicated that there is actually a lot of overlap and blending ...
New stem cell therapy may lead to treatment for deafness
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation ...
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.
Study examines function of prosthetic ears in improving hearing, speech recognition
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Prosthetic ears appear to improve hearing and speech recognition in noisy environments, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
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