Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By ...

For several years now, sleep research has been focusing intensively on the question of whether targeted auditory stimulation ...

A new study proves low-frequency infrasound hijacks inner ear support cells to create unique physical hum sensations.

How does the brain prepare to hear before birth? Johns Hopkins researchers discovered an internal neural "shortcut" that ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that ...

Last week, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman—the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most-watched U.S. Senate races—explained that his stroke nearly four months ago has left him with some ...

Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a hearing condition in which your brain has a problem processing sounds. This can affect how you understand speech and other sounds in your environment. For ...

Here we propose an alternative model of functional segregation in the auditory cortex. Our model agrees that the ventral pathway is probably involved in perceiving auditory objects by extracting ...

People often wonder if a fetus can hear while in the womb. Many expectant parents will speak to or play music for a developing fetus. Evidence suggests that the auditory system starts forming at the ...