Most people struggle with loud noises from time to time, but some of us have what's known as misophonia, an intense aversion to very specific sounds. Ben Birchall/PA Wire/dpa It can be the sound of a ...
Imagine you’re at a bustling dinner party filled with laughter, music, and clinking silverware. You’re trying to follow a ...
A patient's age upon receiving a cochlear implant can influence the technology's effectiveness. Cavan Images/Cavan via Getty Images Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on ...
Cearvol's new hearing aids are built around the same idea: hearing support should be easy to control, comfortable, and adapt ...
Car alarms. Rush-hour traffic. Dogs barking. Toilets flushing. While these sounds may not be your favorite, they are beautiful to those with hearing loss. In HearingLife's new campaign, "Beautiful ...
Auditory brainstem processing underpins our ability to determine the location of sounds in space, a function that is essential for navigation, communication, and environmental awareness. At the heart ...
The brain’s auditory system tracks the speed and location of moving sounds in the same way the visual system tracks moving objects. The study recently published in eNeuro lays the groundwork for more ...
Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...
A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in ...
Autonomous vehicles have eyes—cameras, lidar, radar. But ears? That’s what researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology’s Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology ...