Sighted people would have a hard time crossing the street by sound alone.
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Detecting and tracking motion is key to survival. The ability to extract auditory information from a noisy environment changes when your brain isn’t wired to rely on vision.
Could the appeal of car sounds be a factor influencing drivers to choose environmentally harmful cars?
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Internal combustion engine cars still dominate global sales – it could be to do with the emotive influence they hold over drivers.
The stroke suffered by U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has shed light on little-known aspects of stroke recovery.
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Auditory processing disorders and aphasia can make spoken speech difficult to produce and understand. But these challenges alone do not imply cognitive impairments.
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Aviation safety has much to gain from neuroscience: studying how our brains become “deaf” to alarms allows us to adapt the pilot’s flight instruments.
You may need to pop your ears by yawning when you go up in a plane.
Listen up. Today we’re hearing all about why your ears pop when you go up, up, up and away.
You heard it say what?
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Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.