New research reveals that prolonged stress alters brain function, reducing sensitivity to sound over time. This study uncovers how the brain adapts to chronic stress, prioritizing other senses while ...

You hear a phone ring or a dog bark. Is it yours or someone else’s? You hear footsteps in the night — is it your child, or an intruder? Friend or foe? The decision you make will determine what action ...

In digital broadcasting, video and audio signals are broadcast at low bit rates *2 by employing efficient compression schemes. Audio signals are compressed using so-called perceptual audio coding ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a new study. After a week of stress, mice show changes in how ...

In the natural world, visible ears are not the only path to perception. While there are some animals that do not have visible means of receiving auditory perception due to the absence of ears, others ...