Most people struggle with loud noises from time to time, but some of us have what's known as misophonia, an intense aversion to very specific sounds. Ben Birchall/PA Wire/dpa It can be the sound of a ...

The brain’s auditory system tracks the speed and location of moving sounds in the same way the visual system tracks moving objects. The study recently published in eNeuro lays the groundwork for more ...

To a chef, the sounds of lip smacking, slurping and swallowing are the highest form of flattery. But to someone with a certain type of misophonia, these same sounds can be torturous. Brain scans are ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported August 18 in the journal Cell, suggest that ...

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 ...

The brain's auditory system tracks the speed and location of moving sounds in the same way the visual system tracks moving objects. The study recently published in eNeuro lays the groundwork for more ...

When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations and alert the brain. Encoded in their signals is a wealth of information that enables us to follow conversations, recognize ...

Auditory fusion is when two sounds arrive so close together in time that the ear and brain treat them as a single event. The smallest time gap between two sounds that still lets you hear them ...

Kim Elms, a speech pathologist, shares her experience as an auditory-visual synaesthete Read more stories of synaesthesia in the way I feel series Car journeys with my partner are a nightmare. He’s an ...