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 ...

We are in sound overload, even when we are not consciously aware of it. Those with misophonia may be casualties of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new imaging study suggests that cortical areas activated during sound-localization tasks also require that sound sources be distinguishable by their spectral or temporal features. The scene is an ...

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

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 ...

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 ...