Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

Patients with chronic back pain reported heightened unpleasantness of auditory stimuli and mechanical pressure.

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Xiaojing Tang et al. at Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence recently published a study in Science Bulletin titled “Parvalbumin Interneurons Are Essential for Tonotopy Strength in the ...

Central sensitization in chronic back pain manifested as greater unpleasantness to both pressure and sound, with stronger and more specific amplification for auditory stimuli than mechanical ...

Computational models that mimic the structure and function of the human auditory system could help researchers design better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. A new study ...

Neuroscientists solve the "cocktail party problem," proving that neural amplification of vocal features like pitch and ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

Individuals with chronic back pain reported significantly higher levels of auditory sensitivity compared with pain-free ...