The brain can reorganize itself in the face of a traumatic injury or a sensory disability. For example, in deaf mammals, the auditory processing neurons of the brain may be rewired to handle other ...

An interview with a prominent researcher addresses common questions and helps untangle the auditory neuroscience underlying ...

Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how it interferes with reading comprehension has not been ...

A new imaging study suggests that cortical areas activated during sound-localization tasks also require that sound sources be distinguishable by their spectral or temporal features. The scene is an ...

New predictors found: Auditory processing and comprehension-knowledge emerged as the strongest predictors of reading ability, surpassing visual processing and general intelligence. Why it matters: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Central Auditory Processing (CAP) can be best described as “How the brain interprets auditory input from the ears” (Bellis, T.J. 2001). The brain’s role is to accurately process the information ...

Have you ever struggled to follow a conversation at a party? If listening and piecing together the conversation is a consistent problem, you might be suffering from auditory processing disorder (APD).

Athletes are often praised for overcoming physical maladies. But what if what's wrong isn't physical? And what if not even the player's coaches or teammates are aware that something's wrong? When Alex ...