The best echolocators among us can use the clicks of their mouths or the taps of their canes to create an astonishingly ...

Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain ...

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 ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

Neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Tremblay Explains Why Protecting Hearing is Key to Brain Health in the New Brain Bytes Episode - ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro Francis, 44, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Biology ...

Can brain training improve walking? A 2026 study reveals how exercise and cognitive tasks help MCI patients with hearing loss ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...