Hello, I am Ushio Saito. In the previous unit, we looked at how the outer ear and middle ear work together to convert air vibrations into "vibrations of the fluid in the inner ear." Now, in this unit, ...

Research psychologist Robert Epstein believes that the brain may function as a transducer connected to the “Other Side,” from which we receive information that shapes our consciousness. This neural ...

For decades, neuroscientists have thought about communication between the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia in a fairly linear way. The cortex sends information into the basal ganglia, where that ...

Elephants can communicate with other elephants across distances of up to five kilometers (3 miles) by producing sounds that travel through the air. However, they have a second way of sending signals: ...

Over 70 million people in the U.S. are impacted by hearing loss and age-related hearing loss is the second most common health problem in older adults, according to the Advanced Research Projects ...

Imagine a crowded room. It's a chaos of sound, teeming with indistinct voices. Scientists call this the cocktail party problem. To overcome it, most people are able to focus on a single speaker's ...

Scientists have developed an artificial hearing system that harnesses the brain's ability to amplify certain sounds while suppressing others. It could lead to better hearing aids. CHANG: Lots of ...

Four decades have passed since cochlear implants gave infants born deaf the ability to hear. Now, as Medscape recently reported, gene therapy promises to restore natural hearing for those born with a ...

Inspired by owls and their amazing ability to find their prey by hearing alone, my team decided to test how good humans are at discerning sounds. We were surprised to find just how bad we are. As our ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media. See more details Insects’ sound and vibration detection including proprioception rely on the scolopidium—a ...