This collection seeks to advance our understanding of how sound is perceived and processed by biological systems, with a particular focus on the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underpinning ...

Injuries to the head, neck or ear structures, including jaw misalignment (TMJ disorders), can disrupt auditory nerve pathways ...

Researchers have discovered in an animal model how fear can increase or decrease the ability to discriminate among sounds depending on context, providing potential new insight into the distorted ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

You hear a phone ring or a dog bark. Is it yours or someone else’s? You hear footsteps in the night — is it your child, or an intruder? Friend or foe? The decision you make will determine what action ...

If you aren’t a good listener when you’re stressed, you aren’t alone. Mice aren’t either. We process our world differently when we’re stressed out, and so, too, do mice. According to a new paper in ...

Are wind farms harmful to humans? This controversial topic makes emotions run high. To give the debate more objectivity, an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the ...