News articles tagged with 'auditory'
It's not over when it's over: Storing sounds in the inner ear
— 6 Apr 2011 17:31 | HealthResearch shows that vibrations in the inner ear continue even after a sound has ended, perhaps serving as a kind of mechanical memory of recent sounds. In addition to contributing to…
How do we combine faces and voices?
— 9 Mar 2011 20:11 | HealthHuman social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and…
IU study: Humans' critical ability to throw long distances aided by an illusion
— 24 Jan 2011 15:16 | HealthCan't help moulding some snow into a ball and hurling it or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how…
Insight gained into age-related hearing loss
— 15 Oct 2010 12:26 | HealthResearchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have gained insight into how different types of age-related hearing loss may occur in humans. The discovery could eventually…
Research discovers how the deaf have super vision
— 11 Oct 2010 10:54 | HealthDeaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now, no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers at The University of Western…
GUMC researchers find the blind use visual brain area to improve other senses
— 7 Oct 2010 16:12 | HealthPeople who have been blind from birth make use of the visual parts of their brain to refine their sensation of sound and touch, according to an international team of researchers led…
Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate
— 14 Sep 2010 10:46 | TechnologyCognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. The researchers found that video…
Healthy ears hear the first sound, ignoring the echoes
— 26 Aug 2010 18:58 | HealthVoices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in…
Brain training reverses age-related cognitive decline
— 21 Jul 2010 08:48 | HealthSpecialised brain training targeted at the regions of a rat's brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the…
U-M researchers identify gene mutation that causes rare form of deafness
— 13 Jul 2010 12:28 | HealthResearchers have identified a gene mutation that causes a rare form of hearing loss known as auditory neuropathy, according to U-M Medical School scientists…