When you touch a hot stove, your hand pulls away via a spinal reflex before you feel the burn—and the brain may use a similar ...

Auditory brainstem processing underpins our ability to determine the location of sounds in space, a function that is essential for navigation, communication, and environmental awareness. At the heart ...

Auditory Processing Disorders (APDs) in children represent a complex set of difficulties in the perceptual processing of sound despite normal peripheral hearing. These disorders are broadly ...

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 ...

Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD Key Takeaways Auditory processing disorder (APD) in adults can lead to issues like communication problems, poor social skills, and depression.APD is linked to ...

Imagine you’re in a train station. You can hear a screeching locomotive, a musician’s guitar, and your neighbor’s phone conversation. Discerning each sound and processing the information is a complex ...

Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 talked with an expert about auditory processing.It’s a subject that has been at the forefront during John Fetterman's recovery.Dr. Susan Snyder is an audiologist and a ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not sound driven ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. When Lindsey Jorgensen’s husband, Kyle Jorgensen, returned from ...