The way in which the brain manages to focus our attention on a single voice in a room filled with people is something that scientists have been trying to understand for a long time. A new study may have just provided new insight into this mystery.
Chatter and background noises are all around us everywhere we go, yet... |
19 April 2012
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Women who have just given birth to their children undergo a wide variety of alterations in their brain functions, which is the main mechanism through which instinctive mothering behaviors develop. The conclusion belongs to a new study published by experts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The changes in brain f... |
25 October 2011
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Investigators at the Northwestern University provide the first biological basis for a long-suspected connection between a person's ability to read and their musical aptitudes and auditory working memory efficiency. This is the first time such an intricate connection is proven. The auditory working memory repres... |
17 October 2011
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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigators have finally cracked the mystery surrounding how the relentless ringing in the ears known as tinnitus develops. The condition is oftentimes life-changing, and discovering its root cause was one of the last remaining obstacles to developing a cure.Tinnitus is t... |
19 April 2011
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Investigators finally managed to gain new insight into how the complex network of neurons in the auditory cortex responds to sounds within a specific frequency band.Discovering how this happens has been a long-standing goal for experts. Previous studies have demonstrated that our brains are capable of mapping the aur... |
19 October 2010
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Scientists say that people who are deaf may experience an improvement in their sight, as the brain rewires itself to compensate for the lost sensation. According to a new study conducted on unsuspecting cats, it may be that the auditory cortex, the portion of the brain responsible for creating the sensation of hearin... |
11 October 2010
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The human brain has over the course of its evolution grown to such intricate complexity, that it continues to puzzle experts to this day. Most likely, it will continue doing the same for decades and centuries to come. In a recent series of studies, investigators at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in... |
5 June 2010
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Researchers have recently determined that the phenomenon known as a lazy ear actually exists. They say that it can be likened to a lazy eye, a condition that can be treated in small children where one or both eyes have difficulty processing visual images. Scientists believe that ear infections at any stage of life ca... |
11 March 2010
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Scientists reveal that music, while being a form of entertainment for most people, is something much more for those who actually play a musical instrument, or who otherwise create music. This is especially true for children who play in school orchestra, bands, or who have been practicing a certain instrument since th... |
7 November 2009
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Striving to understand the way in which neurons transmit information between each other has been a golden prize for biologists for more than half a century. The intricate "signal rate" patterns that occur when the brain is analyzing something or when it's making a decision and elaborating a response has proven t... |
17 October 2008
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