Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

A team of researchers has tested a state-of-the-art system called the AudioDome to push surround sound capabilities to the limit. The AudioDome faithfully re-creates a three-dimensional soundscape ...

The Science Behind Sound and Taste Our senses don’t work in isolation—they interact in fascinating ways. Studies have shown ...

Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci. To treat severe cases of ...

How we work out the distance of something we can hear but not see has been somewhat of a mystery - until now. Scientists say we know how far away the source of a sound is by listening to the echoes it ...

In Perception, sound is both your lifeline and your downfall. Perception is a Kickstarter-funded, first-person horror game from The Deep End Games, a studio made up of developers who worked on ...