Researchers have shown that the brain’s primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations associated with positive emotions and coming from our left side than to any other kind of ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Weaker performance in adolescent mice arises from immature cortical representations and cognitive bias, linking developmental changes in behavior with underlying neural coding.

Mild to moderate forms of hearing loss can have a lasting impact on the auditory cortex, according to findings by researchers at New York University’s Center for Neural Science. The study, which is ...

On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Professor Hey-Kyoung Lee from the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins presented her research as the ...

The simple hobby that can help boost brain health later in life - Learning how to play an instrument offers a plethora of benefits ...

Despite its ubiquitous use in medicine, and extensive knowledge of its molecular and cellular effects, how anesthesia induces loss of consciousness (LOC) and affects sensory processing remains poorly ...

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 ...