New research reveals how a week in the dark rewires brain cell networks and changes hearing sensitivity in adult mice long after the optimal window for auditory learning has passed. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: hearing
Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch
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•Results of a study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain’s hearing circuits. …read more Source:: Science
Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing, study shows
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•Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information. …read more Source:: Science
Even a shark’s electrical ‘sixth sense’ may be tuned to attack
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•Imagine having superhuman hearing. You’re at a noisy, cocktail party and yet your ears can detect normally inaudible sounds. But, unlike normal hearing, each of these sounds causes your ears …read more Source:: Science
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
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•Whales show surprisingly vast differences in hearing ability. Baleen whales tune into infrasonic sounds to communicate over long distances. Toothed whales do just the opposite, relying on ultrasonic frequencies too …read more Source:: Science
I’m all ears: fossils reveal human ancestors’ hearing abilities
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two-million-year-old fossils including the three tiny bones of the middle ear are helping scientists figure out the auditory abilities of early human ancestors at a time when …read more Source:: UKScienceNews