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A molecule in an animal model that acts as a key player in establishing the organization of the auditory system has been discovered in a recent study. The molecule, a protein known as Bmp7, is ...

Central auditory processing refers to how a person’s central nervous system receives and processes sounds. Incoming sounds must be analyzed by the brain in order for them to be understood. There is no ...

A new Northwestern University study did much more than that. To understand how the brain responds to highly complex auditory-visual stimuli like music and moving images, the study tracked parts of ...

"We now know that there are three different routes into the central auditory system, ... The study shows that these three neuron types probably play a part in the decoding of sonic intensity ...

Central Auditory Processing (CAP) can be best described as “What the brain does with what the ears hear” (Bellis, T.J. 2001). It is the job of the brain to correctly decode the information ...

However, during the prenatal period, while the auditory system is still developing, babies are exposed to degraded sound quality in the womb. To examine the effects of that degraded input, the ...

Functional integrity of the auditory brainstem was studied at term in babies born at 30–36 wk of gestation using maximum length sequence brainstem auditory evoked response (MLS BAER). Compared ...

Inside the womb, fetuses can begin to hear some sounds around 20 weeks of gestation. However, the input they are exposed to is limited to low-frequency sounds because of the muffling effect of the ...