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Scientists Search for Brain Center Responsible for Tinnitus For the more than 50 million Americans who experience the phantom sounds of tinnitus -- ringing in the ears that can range from annoying to debilitating -- certain well-trained rats may be their best hope for finding relief. view more (2007-10-08)
Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest. view more (2009-03-04)
Taking up music so you can hear Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination. view more (2009-08-18)
Researcher developing new method for hearing loss assessment A Purdue University researcher is working on a new technique to diagnose hearing loss in a way that more accurately reflects real-world situations. view more (2007-09-07)
Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons — even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future. view more (2007-03-13)
New therapy for tinnitus At last, a way to treat that maddening ringing in your ears A therapy for tinnitus, the infuriating ringing in the ears that plagues millions of people, is finally on the cards. Simply learning to tell the difference between computer generated tones could help relieve the debilitating condition. A small pilot study of the technique by German... view more... (2002-03-20)
Hand-to-ear link in brain established after minutes of piano learning Contrary to what your music teacher told you, it does not take decades of piano practice to learn to play phrases on the piano without looking at your fingers. A brain map linking finger movements with particular notes begins to form within minutes of starting training, according to research published this week in BMC Neuroscience. Recent brain... view more... (2003-10-09)
Asleep or awake we retain memory Sleeping helps to reinforce what we've learned. And brain scans have revealed that cerebral activity associated with learning new information is replayed during sleep. view more (2006-03-28)
Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return to the first conversation. view more (2008-08-22)
More than 80% of patients manage to stop discomfort from tinnitus and can lead a normal life again It is estimated that between 10 and 17% of the population has suffered tinnitus at some time in their lives, according to a number of international studies. view more (2007-06-26)
Nicotine exposure during development leads to hearing problems Scientists know that children of women who smoke during pregnancy can develop hearing-related cognitive deficits. For the first time, researchers believe they have evidence that not only implicates nicotine as the culprit, but also shows what the substance does to the brain to cause these deficits. view more (2006-07-19)
Songbirds offer clues to highly practiced motor skills in humans The melodious sound of a songbird may appear effortless, but his elocutions are actually the result of rigorous training undergone in youth and maintained throughout adulthood. His tune has virtually "crystallized" by maturity. view more (2007-12-27)
Williams Syndrome, the brain and music Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, just love music and will spend hours listening to or making music. Despite averaging an IQ score of 60, many possess a great memory for songs, an uncanny sense of rhythm, and the kind of auditory acuity, than can discern differences between different vacuum cleaner brands. view more (2006-10-04)
Researchers discover mechanism that determines when detailed memories are retained The levels of a chemical released by the brain determine how detailed a memory will later be, according to researchers at UC Irvine. view more (2006-10-16)
Brain waves show sound processing abnormalities in autistic children Abnormalities in auditory and language processing may be evaluated in children with autism spectrum disorder by using magnetoencephalography (MEG), according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). view more (2008-12-01)
Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows Cochlear implants allow the deaf to hear. Their brains learn to understand the artificial electrical stimulation that the implants provide to the cochlea as sound. view more (2005-12-06)
New tool to assess speech development in infants, toddlers with hearing impairments The number of hearing impaired infants and toddlers who are successfully aided by technological devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, continues to grow, but there are still unknowns about these children's speaking abilities, according to a Purdue University expert. view more (2008-09-24)
Dolphins maintain round-the-clock visual vigilance Dolphins have a clever trick for overcoming sleep deprivation. Sam Ridgway from the US Navy Marine Mammal Program explains that they are able to send half of their brains to sleep while the other half remains conscious. view more (2009-05-01)
MU Researchers Use Computational Models to Study Fear The brain is a complex system made of billions of neurons and thousands of connections that relate to every human feeling, including one of the strongest emotions, fear. view more (2009-10-01)
Research may unlock mystery of autism's origin in the brain In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that in autistic individuals, connections between brain cells may be deficient within single regions, and not just between regions, as was previously believed. view more (2007-08-23)
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