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Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale
August 22, 2011 — Skewed skulls may have helped early whales discriminate the direction of sounds in water and are not solely, as previously thought, a later adaptation related to ... > full story -
Profound Reorganization in Brains of Adults Who Stutter: Auditory-Motor Integration Located in Different Part of Brain
August 15, 2011 — Hearing Beethoven while reciting Shakespeare can suppress even a King's stutter, as recently illustrated in the movie "The King's Speech". This dramatic but short-lived effect of hiding the sound of ... > full story -
Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Associated With Hearing Loss in Adolescents
July 18, 2011 — Exposure to secondhand smoke is associated with increased risk of hearing loss among adolescents, according to a new ... > full storyMore: -
Keeping Up Your Overall Health May Keep Dementia Away, Study Suggests
July 13, 2011 — Improving and maintaining health factors not traditionally associated with dementia, such as denture fit, vision and hearing, may lower a person's risk for developing dementia, according to a new ... > full story -
Helping Deaf People to Enjoy Music Again
June 23, 2011 — Researchers from the UK are investigating how to help deaf people, who have received a cochlear implant, to get more enjoyment from ... > full story -
Components of Speech Recognition Pathway in Humans Identified
June 22, 2011 — Neuroscientists have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain needs to identify sounds such as speech -- and discovered that they are the same as ones ... > full story -
GPs Missing Early Dementia, UK Study Shows
June 20, 2011 — New research demonstrates that general practitioners (GPs) are struggling to correctly identify people in the early stages of dementia resulting in both missed cases (false negatives) and ... > full story -
No Gender Difference in Risk-Taking Behavior, Study Suggests
June 8, 2011 — New research shows that young Swedish women are more prone than men to perceive situations as risky. However, there are no gender differences in actual risk-taking ... > full story -
Retina Holds the Key to Better Vision in Deaf People
June 1, 2011 — People who are deaf benefit from better vision due to the fact their retinas develop differently, researchers in the UK have ... > full story -
Focusing Heavily on a Task Results in Experience of Deafness to Perfectly Audible Sounds
May 27, 2011 — How can someone with perfectly normal hearing become deaf to the world around them when their mind is on something else? New research suggests that focusing heavily on a task results in the ... > full story
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