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I recently came across an interesting study, suggesting that the way in which you hold your cell phone is indicative of which hemisphere of your brain dominates the other. The team behind the study mostly focused on what ears individuals held up their mobile devices to.
Upon reading this study, it became obvious to ... |
23 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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One of the things that everyone learns from childhood is that all sense contribute to our overall perception of the environment. The question that has been bugging researchers is how this is happening in the brain. A new study proposes a series of explanations for these phenomena.
Things are especially complex whe... |
5 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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According to the results of a new investigation, it would appear that baby clownfish are in danger of losing their hearing soon, due to the effects of ocean acidification. This would be disastrous for the species, since it uses hearing to avoid predators. These fish need to avoid coral reefs during the day, since the... |
2 June 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Northwestern University researchers have determined in a new study that people who had musical training tend to be more capable of hearing speech in noisy conditions than their peers. At the same time, they are less likely to experience age-related memory decline as the years pass. The correlation was found to hold t... |
13 May 2011
09:56 GMT |
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Investigators working in Nicaragua say that their results indicate a tight connection between the ability to communicate via language and the a thorough understanding of the meaning associated with numbers. The new study was carried out on deaf people in the South American nation. Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychologist ... |
8 February 2011
04:34 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School have learned more about the way that different types of age-related hearing loss occur in humans.The experiment was carried out, as usual, in mice, by James Ervasti, PhD, and colleague Ben Perrin, PhD.They examined how two very closely related gene... |
16 October 2010
04:54 GMT |
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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
04:43 GMT |
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Teenagers today have a harder time hearing what goes on around them than young people did a few decades ago. The new discovery could put a new spin on parents' complaints that their children don't listen to them – it may be that the teens simply don't physically hear them. Over the past twenty ye... |
18 August 2010
09:29 GMT |
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That scientists and health experts believe portable music players and the habit of listening to music wherever we go very detrimental to our health is not news. Though the voices saying this is nothing but gross exaggeration are many, a new study comes to show that even as little as one hour of listening to music on ... |
22 June 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Hamilton CapTel (owned by Hamilton Telecommunications), a provider of diversified communications and technology services, has announced its Hamilton Mobile CapTel application for the iPhone. Targeting individuals with hearing loss, the application provides captions of telephone calls and allows users to listen while ... |
17 June 2010
09:47 GMT |
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In the case of musicians, healthcare experts have known for a long time that prolonged exposure to loud noises can have severe consequences on these individuals' hearing. But, until now, most experts believed that the correlation was only true in the case of those playing modern music, the type that uses instrum... |
28 April 2010
10:42 GMT |
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The new legislation initiatives, which seek to impose a decibel limit on all new, personal music players, could be unnecessary, a new study shows. It would appear that, overall, the rate of hearing loss in the population is dropping rather than increasing, despite a surge in the usage of personal music devices such a... |
18 January 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Apple is not being held responsible for the hearing loss allegedly caused by one of its iPods, according to a report saying that a federal appeals court rejected a class-action lawsuit brought against the Mac maker. The plaintiffs argued that the iPod earbuds were designed to be placed deep in the ear canal. Joseph ... |
4 January 2010
04:43 GMT |
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English researchers in London have recently determined in a new study that our motor systems, which govern movements, tend to activate themselves automatically when we hear speech. They say that these newly found data could help experts understand and fight against a large number of speech difficulties in the near fu... |
23 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Scientists know that the human brain is far from being decoded, and as such remains one of the most mysterious constructs in nature today. But they had no idea that it also processed impulses from the skin, when transforming electrical signals from the ears into the auditory sensation. Though that might seem improbab... |
26 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists working with a new mathematical model may have finally figured out how it is that mosquitoes can hear the faint sounds of a female's flapping wings, but not become deaf when hearing louder noises. The University of Bristol research team has managed to unlock some of the remarkable features, but highli... |
20 November 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Robots that can see are nothing new, as they've been around for quite some time now. And we're not talking about machines such as the rover Spirit, which uses its cameras to inform its human operators about what it's doing, but about robots that are able to identify and move around an obstacle all on t... |
27 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Teenagers around the world fighting their parents for a decent volume level on their stereos can now finally say that they have science on their side. New studies reveal that composing and playing music can be good for their hearing, in that they become more able to discern voices and speech out of noisy backgrounds.... |
20 August 2009
03:11 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the human brain is in the habit of processing visual and audio information in similar manners, as in it uses the same type of “encryption” for both types of information. The new study was conducted using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)... |
13 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study carried out in Italy, people are more likely to answer favorably to demands if they hear more of the question with their right ear than the left one. The team behind the new investigation says that the cause for this is the fact that the areas inside the brain hemispheres that deal... |
24 June 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Marine biologists from the Taiwan National Academy of Science in Taipei have been finally able to end a century-old dispute recently, when they have managed to establish for a fact that all cephalopods, including squids, octopuses, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can hear sounds underwater. The debate was sparked by the f... |
15 June 2009
10:35 GMT |
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A new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine comes to shed some doubts on the classic model of how the ear transforms sound into vibrations. Devised decades ago, the model has held bravely to criticism for many years, but it would seem that the recent study has finally managed to bring reasonable qu... |
28 April 2009
10:30 GMT |
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According to two independent study teams, one focusing its efforts on mice, and the other on humans, a new type of gene, called a microRNA, is partially responsible for the onset and development of progressive hearing loss. This condition is a hearing deficit that affects millions around the world, especially the eld... |
13 April 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Digital music players are one of the most purchased and widespread categories of personal products in the world today, owned by tens of millions of people. In the European Union alone, more than 10 million young people have them, and use them regularly, listening on average more than 2 hours per day on their headphon... |
30 January 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The discussions about whether blind people dream in colors when they are asleep, if they dream in black and white, or if they experience color at all has been mainly philosophical at first. Now, the issue has moved into the realm of science, as researchers attempt to find out exactly what mechanisms are at work in th... |
16 December 2008
17:01 GMT |
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It is all too well known that listening to music at a very high volume level can damage your ears. This doesn't just happen over night. You may feel no difference as time passes, but rest assured, your hearing will suffer some damage, should you always listen at max volume level. This is why it is very important... |
20 November 2008
10:32 GMT |
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Recently, the European Commission asked scientists to evaluate the effects of prolonged exposure to high levels of “leisure noise,” and the results of the study were more than worrying. As the EU researchers discovered, there are tens of millions of young people that can experience definitive hearing... |
14 October 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Well, then, what can I say - the Britney circus really had a great day yesterday, and while Brit Brit is probably sleeping peacefully now, knowing she has the kids off her back for at least another month, the rest of us mere mortals are left contemplating the disaster and wondering exactly when will anyone decide to ... |
15 January 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Today is a big day on the Britney front, and we're all wondering whether by the end of the day Brit Brit will still hold a chance (however remote) of ever getting near her kids, or if we'll witness yet another public meltdown, like the one that followed Britney's latest run-in with the law. And yes, fo... |
14 January 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Brit Brit is stepping up - and appears to be trying to put the VMAs behind her. She's certainly had enough publicity and media attention to last her 10 lifetimes, so she has decided on a very sensible move - which is, trying to keep her custody battle with ex hubby K-Fed as private as possible. This is why she d... |
14 September 2007
08:52 GMT |
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Humans can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Bats and dolphins go much further: they can hear sounds over 20 kHz (ultrasounds), while dogs and elephants hear sounds under 20 Hz (infrasounds). For 30 years, researchers stated various hypotheses on how specialized cells in the mammals' inner ear amplify sounds... |
30 July 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Hearing loss is something most people fear, but also represents a condition some people have to live with each and every day of their lives. And this is the reason why the Oticon company launched the Oticon Epoq, a hearing instrument meant to solve, with the help of Bluetooth technology, some of the most common probl... |
5 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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