Chronic back pain changes brain responses, making everyday sounds feel more distressing than physical pressure.

The study, published in Annals of Neurology, links this increased sound sensitivity to measurable differences in brain ...

(A) Mice are trained to respond to external audiovisual cues by making decisions to receive a water reward while avoiding a mild air puff. When both auditory and visual stimuli are presented together, ...

Everyday sounds add to the torment of a person with chronic back pain, apparently because pain rewires how the brain responds ...

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 ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain seamlessly transforms sounds, speech patterns, and words into the flow of everyday conversations. Using advanced technology to analyze over 100 hours of brain ...

People with chronic back pain process everyday sounds differently, and more intensely, than people without pain, according to ...

Does walking influence how people process sensory information, like sounds, from the environment? In a new JNeurosci paper, researchers led by Liyu Cao, from Zhejiang University, and Barbara Händel, ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a study published February 11 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

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 ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...