The brain has evolved to interpret these irregular sounds as potential danger, triggering that instinctive “fight or flight” response. It’s the reason the screeching violins in the movie “Psycho” or ...

Scientists have discovered a brain pathway that explains why scary sounds can trigger fear before you even understand what ...

Neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Tremblay Explains Why Protecting Hearing is Key to Brain Health in the New Brain Bytes Episode - ...

The timing of our brain waves shapes which words we hear. Researchers used psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to test whether neural timing influences perception of more or less ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

The cognitive neural mechanism of auditory hallucinations. Dissociative impairment of functional distinct signals in motor-to-sensory transformation process – a ‘broken’ monitoring signal plus a ...

If you’ve started avoiding restaurants because you can’t follow the conversation… if your spouse says you keep turning up the ...

Many people believe closing their eyes sharpens hearing, but that is not always true. In noisy settings, participants ...

Where does imagination come from? A new fMRI study in Neuron reveals that mental imagery emerges from the brain's association ...

Closing your eyes may not help you hear better in noisy places. Keeping your eyes open can actually improve how you detect ...