Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, No. 7 (February 14, 2012), pp. 2607-2612 (6 pages) Most animals exhibit innate auditory behaviors driven by ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Tinnitus, a relentless ringing in the ears known to disable soldiers exposed to blasts, unwary listeners of too-loud music and millions more, is the result of under-inhibition of key neural pathways ...

Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music rewarding, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Despite no obvious biological benefits, ...

The subset of people who don't experience joy or derive pleasure from music have "musical anhedonia" and it's happening in ...

Here we discuss the neural circuits mediating fear learning. Specifically we focus on recent discoveries concerning the circuits that carry auditory and aversive information to the amygdala, on how ...

When it comes to courtship, it is important to ensure that one is interacting with a member of the same species. Animals use multiple sensory systems to confirm that potential mates are indeed ...

During vocal exchanges, hearing specific auditory signals can provoke vocal responses or suppress vocalizations to avoid interference. These abilities result in the widespread phenomenon of vocal turn ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' otoferlin gene therapy (DB-OTO) shows promising results in a child with genetic hearing loss, demonstrating improved auditory responses in the phase 1/2 CHORD clinical trial ...

Scientists have identified an ingeniously elegant brain circuit consisting of just five nerve cells that allows female crickets to automatically identify the chirps of males from the same species ...

PITTSBURGH, April 18 - Tinnitus, a relentless and often life-changing ringing in the ears known to disable soldiers exposed to blasts, unwary listeners of too-loud music and millions of others, is the ...