Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates ...

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 ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Researchers have shown that the brain’s primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations associated with positive emotions and coming from our left side than to any other kind of ...

Despite its ubiquitous use in medicine, and extensive knowledge of its molecular and cellular effects, how anesthesia induces loss of consciousness (LOC) and affects sensory processing remains poorly ...

Brains of the deaf seeing rhythmic lights look like others' listening to rhythms. Anecdotal, but on point. I have a mild case of synesthesia in which seeing pulsed patterns of light, or color, or even ...