An interview with a prominent researcher addresses common questions and helps untangle the auditory neuroscience underlying ...

We invite you to imagine the tune of Happy Birthday right now! When you imagine this familiar melody, your ears aren’t involved, but some parts of the brain associated with the auditory system do ...

When a sound stops, our auditory system generates a precise "offset" response that marks this moment. This enables the brain ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system - a group of neurons that regulate the functioning of more specialized neurons - strongly ...

A new study published in PNAS highlights a newly identified mechanism of how auditory sensitivity is regulated that could temporarily reduce sensitivity of the auditory system to protect itself from ...

Researchers at LMU have discovered how the auditory system compensates for noise-induced damage in order to detect when sounds end.