Experts say more research is needed, but some studies have shown that low-gain hearing aids significantly improved speech ...

Auditory Processing Disorders (APDs) in children represent a complex set of difficulties in the perceptual processing of sound despite normal peripheral hearing. These disorders are broadly ...

Finding the truth online about central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) proves to be very difficult, as there is no accurate summary of research. Biases in your own search terms and the search ...

Studies on misophonia have compared the newly termed disorder to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, synesthesia, anger management problems, disorders related to impulse control, and ...

Central Auditory Processing (CAP) can be best described as “How the brain interprets auditory input from the ears” (Bellis, T.J. 2001). The brain’s role is to accurately process the information ...

First study to reveal the brain encodes pitch accents separately from the sounds that make up words. Heschl's gyrus region of the brain, an earlier stage of auditory processing, plays a much larger ...

A study from Michigan Medicine's Kresge Hearing Research Institute was able to produce supranormal hearing in mice, while also supporting a hypothesis on the cause of hidden hearing loss in humans.

Concerns are mounting over noise-cancelling headphone's impact on hearing health. Noise-cancelling headphones have become increasingly popular, particularly among younger generations, for their ...

If you find yourself having a hard time following your favourite TV shows without subtitles, it might not be because there's anything wrong with your hearing. Instead, experts say that a common but ...