How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

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Closing your eyes may not help you hear better in noisy places. Keeping your eyes open can actually improve how you detect ...

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

You might think hearing loss only affects your ears, but research shows something far more significant happens inside your ...

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

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

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...