Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Patients with chronic back pain reported heightened unpleasantness of auditory stimuli and mechanical pressure.

Xiaojing Tang et al. at Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence recently published a study in Science Bulletin titled “Parvalbumin Interneurons Are Essential for Tonotopy Strength in the ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

Computational models that mimic the structure and function of the human auditory system could help researchers design better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. A new study ...

We invite you to imagine the tune of Happy Birthday right now! When you imagine this familiar melody, your ears aren’t involved, but some parts of the brain associated with the auditory system do ...

A study published in Annals of Neurology has found that individuals with chronic back pain exhibit significantly higher ...

Individuals with chronic back pain reported significantly higher levels of auditory sensitivity compared with pain-free ...