Noise can put you off your food
Soft music can improve dining experience: studyCredit: Flinders University Noise can make or break a dining experience, according to a ...
Tag: Hearing/Speech
Ultra-low-cost hearing aid could address age-related hearing loss worldwide
Credit: Craig Bromley Using a device that could be built with a dollar's worth of open-source parts and a 3D-printed ...
Researchers identify role of protein in development of new hearing hair cells
Finding could lead to future treatments for hearing lossCredit: University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers at the University of ...
Quality over quantity in recovering language after stroke
New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found that intensive therapy is not necessarily best when it comes to treating ...
Hearing loss in naked mole-rats is an advantage, not a hardship
New research published in Current BiologyCredit: Joshua Clark/UIC If naked mole-rats were human, they would be prescribed hearing aids. With ...
Hindawi Limited announces open access partnership with SAGE Publishing
Three of SAGE Publishing's open access journals will publish with Hindawi under a new collaborative publishing agreementCredit: © Hindawi Limited ...
Hearing loss linked to neurocognitive deficits in childhood cancer survivors
Research shows that severe hearing loss in childhood cancer survivors is associated with neurocognitive deficits independent of type of therapyCredit: ...
NEOMED researcher awarded $2.18 million NIH grant for first human tinnitus treatment
Credit: Northeast Ohio Medical University ROOTSTOWN, OHIO--Northeast Ohio Medical University researcher and professor of anatomy and neurobiology Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., ...
Pre-brain surgery test protects language in some tumors
Credit: Kazuya Motomura A technique that maps a patient's language centers before going into surgery works best when their brain ...
Funding round to accelerate growth for technology to treat speech conditions
Credit: Chris Adam/Purdue Research Foundation WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - SpeechVive Inc. announced Tuesday (July 7) the completion of a convertible ...
A simpler way to make sensory hearing cells
Credit: Image by Yassan Abdolazimi/Segil Lab/USC Stem Cell Scientists from the USC Stem Cell laboratories of Neil Segil and Justin ...
The “eyes” say more than the “mouth” and can distinguish English sounds
A new method to estimate English discrimination ability from human pupillary responseCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS ...
Variability in natural speech is challenging for the dyslexic brain
Credit: Photo: Veikko Somerpuro. A new study brings neural-level evidence that the continuous variation in natural speech makes the discrimination ...
Creating hairy human skin: Not as easy as you think
New culture technique opens the door for new treatment for wound and burn treatments, testing drugs and cosmetics; the technique ...
Gene therapy with a new base editing technique restores hearing in mice
Repairing a single mutation in the Tmc1 gene restored partial hearing in miceCredit: Olga Shubina-Oleinik, Boston Children's Hospital) Key Findings: ...
A promise to restore hearing
In a first, researchers use base editing to correct recessive genetic deafness and restore partial hearingCredit: Harvard University When Wei ...
The evolutionary puzzle of the mammalian ear
Credit: (©Anne Le Mai?tre) The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, ...
Essential key to hearing sensitivity discovered
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on ...
Advanced X-ray technology tells us more about Ménière’s disease
Credit: Nordström et al. The organ of balance in the inner ear is surrounded by the hardest bone in the ...
Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking
The discovery of a common neural mechanism in speech and ASL errors -- one that occurs in just 40 milliseconds ...
