Some children find it harder to understand what strangers are saying
New research by New York University Steinhardt Associate Professor Susannah Levi finds that children with poorer language skills are at ...
Tag: Hearing/Speech
Major scientific meeting on sound next month in Louisville
The Acoustical Society of America will gather to reveal and discuss the latest in the science of sound May 13-17, ...
Low use of hearing aids among older Hispanic/Latino adults in US
Bottom Line: This study examined how common hearing aids were and the factors associated with their use among a group ...
Listeners immerse themselves in audiobooks in very different ways
In the future, a new brain research method could be used to study creativity Researchers at Aalto University analysed how ...
$10 million grant to support Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
Anonymous gift makes center at UH sustainableCredit: University of Houston An anonymous $10-million gift by a grateful patient family to ...
Difficulty hearing may keep older patients from participating in their health care
In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study of 13,940 adults age 65 years and older, nearly half reported ...
Data Science Day to showcase Columbia University’s most innovative research
Columbia researchers share latest advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, predictive healthcare, global radicalization and more Columbia is holding ...
Sound sense: Brain ‘listens’ for distinctive features in sounds
University of Pittsburgh researchers explore how the auditory system achieves accurate speech recognitionCredit: Shi Tong Liu/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (March ...
Hearing loss before 50 may mean higher risk of drug and alcohol issues
National study shows prescription opioid use disorder is twice as high among deaf and hard-of-hearing young and middle-aged adults, compared ...
Brain region discovered that only processes spoken, not written words
Study of rare dementia shows selective attack on areas of brainCredit: Northwestern University Patients in a new Northwestern Medicine study ...
Restoring hearing loss
University of Utah engineers part of team to improve technology for the deafCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering ...
New contributor to age-related hearing loss identified
Research sheds light on a vital, but largely unknown, part of the inner earCredit: Dan Addison | University Communications Researchers ...
Music captivates listeners and synchronizes their brainwaves
Credit: Jens Madsen Music has the ability to captivate us; when listeners engage with music, they follow its sounds closely, ...
Why you lose hearing for a while after listening to loud sounds
Credit: Thor Balkhed/LiU When we listen to loud sounds, our hearing may become impaired for a short time. Researchers at ...