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

The brain can reorganize itself in the face of a traumatic injury or a sensory disability. For example, in deaf mammals, the auditory processing neurons of the brain may be rewired to handle other ...

Studies on misophonia have compared the newly termed disorder to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, synesthesia, anger management problems, disorders related to impulse control, and ...

Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been ...

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...

Dani Tomlin receives funding from the HEARing CRC. Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be ...

Central Auditory Processing (CAP) can be best described as “How the brain interprets auditory input from the ears” (Bellis, T.J. 2001). The brain’s role is to accurately process the information ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Athletes are often praised for overcoming physical maladies. But what if what's wrong isn't physical? And what if not even the player's coaches or teammates are aware that something's wrong? When Alex ...