Auditory Cortex

Spontaneous activity of cochlear cells allows normal development, and its later absence leads to deafness

Researchers at UNIGE and Maastricht University have demonstrated that the brain adapts to a person’s listening intentions by focusing either on a speaker’s voice or on the speech sounds that are being uttered.

MIT scientists have devised a new a new model that depicts human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre. It consists...

When you hear any kind of sound, your brain needs to process quickly to identify its type and from where it is coming.  In a...