Researchers have answered the longstanding question of how the brain balances hearing between our ears, which is essential for localizing sound, hearing in noisy conditions and for protection from ...

Just as people with sight in only one eye have problems with depth perception, those with impaired hearing in one ear, known as unilateral hearing loss (UHL) or single-sided deafness (SSD), face ...

This news release is available in German. Humans use the time delay between the arrival of a sound wave at each ear to discern the direction of the source. In frogs, lizards and birds the distance ...

Humans use the time delay at the ears to deduce the origin of a sound signal. In frogs, lizards and birds the distance between the ears is too small. However, they have a cavity connecting the ...

Team identifies optimal synaptic and post-synaptic characteristics that allow cells of the cochlear nucleus to compute with temporal precision - When it comes to hearing, precision is important.

The specific synaptic and post-synaptic characteristics that allow auditory neurons to compute with temporal precision has been identified by a team of researchers led by R. Michael Burger, ...