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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

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 ...

Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The findings support the efficacy and feasibility of long-term, auditory-based cognitive training for people ...