Music for the Mind: How Music Nurtures Cognitive Development
Imagine listening to your favorite song, how it makes you feel, and the flood of memories the sounds bring with them. Music is well known for its ability to evoke…
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How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain
It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a fetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of…
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What is Synesthesia?
Have you ever wondered if you experience the world like everyone else? We assume that our senses tell us what’s going on in the world, but they’re far from perfect.…
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Meet our newest team member Kayleen Schreiber
We have someone new joining our team! She is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Iowa, and she studies speech perception – but let’s let the animation she created…
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How does the brain locate sound sources?
The brain has an amazing ability to identify the source of sounds around you. When driving, you can tell where an approaching fire truck is coming from and pull over…
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The Auditory System: From Sound Waves to Brain Waves
Our human experience is enriched by our senses. The world would appear to be a dull place if the brain did not endow us with the ability to construct visual…
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Hearing is Believing: Cells that Enable Hearing after Birth
The sense of hearing is a critical part of how we experience life and the world around us. It is so important, in fact, that the ears are fully formed…
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Chords of perception
Your brain is endowed with the fascinating ability to detect saliency in the world. This means that it works to recognize patterns in the presence of excessive sensory information, which…
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