While earphones are a great aid to focus, the medical and audiology research still indicates that they carry some risks if ...

Hearing impairment is a common nonmotor manifestation of Parkinson disease, often involving high-frequency hearing loss.

In A Nutshell Brain scans of 110 adults show that in people with age-related hearing loss, certain brain regions can’t maintain adequate activity levels as tissue shrinks A memory-related region ...

A bill advancing to the Missouri Senate would require all public schools in the state to conduct universal gifted testing for students before third grade.

A communication problem that makes it difficult for people to understand speech can affect a person's education, career, and relationships, but they might not realize what's going on because the ...

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, auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not sound driven ...

Summary: A large-scale study challenges the long-held belief that musical training boosts the brain’s earliest stages of sound processing. Using a sample size over four times larger than earlier ...

Imagine being able to hear perfectly but still not understand what people are saying, especially when there’s background noise. That’s the daily experience for someone with central auditory processing ...

New research published in The Journal of Neuroscience reveals that basic sound processing remains active in the brainstem during non-rapid eye movement sleep, but weakens in the auditory cortex as ...