Chinese scientists have successfully developed the world's first bionic auditory neural interface, enabling conventional ...

The olivocochlear efferent system comprises descending pathways from the superior olivary complex to the cochlea, including medial and lateral components that modulate outer and inner hair cell ...

A Johns Hopkins study identifies a previously unknown neural 'shortcut' in mice that organizes the auditory system before ...

The human auditory pathway is a highly sophisticated biological system that includes both physical structures and brain regions specialized in the perception and processing of sounds. The sounds that ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

University of Oregon neuroscientists report that two areas of the mouse brain combine representations of what is heard and anticipated, guiding behavior that leads mice to the best reward. Researchers ...

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 ...