Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to visual fear shortcuts.

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Patients with chronic back pain reported heightened unpleasantness of auditory stimuli and mechanical pressure.

Neuroscientists solve the "cocktail party problem," proving that neural amplification of vocal features like pitch and ...

Xiaojing Tang et al. at Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence recently published a study in Science Bulletin titled “Parvalbumin Interneurons Are Essential for Tonotopy Strength in the ...

Computational models that mimic the structure and function of the human auditory system could help researchers design better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. A new study ...

Individuals with chronic back pain reported significantly higher levels of auditory sensitivity compared with pain-free ...

Brains of the deaf seeing rhythmic lights look like others' listening to rhythms. Anecdotal, but on point. I have a mild case of synesthesia in which seeing pulsed patterns of light, or color, or even ...

Auditory neuroscience explains why the brain cannot hold a voice the way it holds a face -- and what bereaved families ...