Echolocation isn't just for the blind. A new study proves everyday adults can actively rewire their visual cortex to navigate ...

Scientists have discovered a brain pathway that explains why scary sounds can trigger fear before you even understand what ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or potentially threatening. Via a process known as habituation, they gradually learn to ...

Meta AI describes a system that predicts fMRI-measured brain responses during naturalistic film viewing by jointly modeling ...

When two identical sounds are repeated quickly, a filter reduces the attention that the brain directs to the second sound it hears. In people with schizophrenia, this ability to reduce the brain's ...

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

At first, it feels like nostalgia - that raw, screaming sound that instantly pulls you in. But there’s something deeper going ...

Are there certain sounds that really drive you crazy? Beyond mere frustration or annoyance, sounds that trigger uncontrollable feelings of anger and disgust? If so then you quite possibly suffer from ...

Scientists have yet to answer the age-old question of whether or how sound shapes the minds of fetuses in the womb, and expectant mothers often wonder about the benefits of such activities as playing ...

In experiments in newborn mice, scientists report that sounds appear to change 'wiring' patterns in areas of the brain that process sound earlier than scientists assumed and even before the ear canal ...