The study of speech processing and auditory perception encompasses the investigation of how the human brain deciphers complex acoustic signals into meaningful linguistic units. At its core, this ...

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 ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

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Hearing aids are quietly undergoing a revolution, shifting from simple sound amplifiers to wearable computers that can read ...

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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 ...

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