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How Music May Help Ward Off Hearing Loss As We Age

Posted on August 29, 2011 by admin

Older people often have difficulty understanding conversation in a crowd. Like everything else, our hearing deteriorates as we age. There are physiological reasons for this decline: We lose tiny hair cells that pave the way for sound to reach our … Continue reading →

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Feel the Noise: Touch, Hearing May Share Neurological Roots

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

About a year and a half after her stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. A radio announcer’s voice made her tingle. Background noise in a plane felt physically uncomfortable. Now Tony Ro, a neuroscientist at the City College … Continue reading →

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Does coffee make you hear things?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

Scholars at Australia’s La Trobe University just released a study showing a correlation between caffeine intake and auditory hallucinations. In layman’s terms: Lots of coffee might make you more likely to hear things that aren’t there. Researchers came to the … Continue reading →

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Musical training offsets memory-loss & effects of aging

Posted on May 13, 2011 by admin

Lifelong musical training appears to offset some of the deleterious effects of aging — memory and the ability to hear speech in noise — researchers at Northwestern University have found. The researchers tested 18 musicians and 19 non-musicians aged 45 … Continue reading →

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Tiny ear listens to hidden worlds

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

The micro-ear is based upon modifying an established technology that uses laser light to create so-called optical tweezers.These are already used to accurately measure tiny forces. They work by suspending very small glass or plastic beads in a beam of … Continue reading →

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Seeing the Brain Hear Reveals Surprises About How Sound Is Processed

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

New research shows our brains are a lot more chaotic than previously thought, and that this might be a good thing. Neurobiologists at the University of Maryland have discovered information about how the brain processes sound that challenges previous understandings … Continue reading →

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