The subset of people who don’t experience joy or derive any pleasure from music have “musical anhedonia” and it’s happening ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

University of Maryland biologists identified a hidden sensory talent in geckos that’s shaking up what we thought we knew about animal hearing. In a new study published in Current Biology on October 4, ...

Achin Bhowmik, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey and adjunct professor at Stanford. Hearing loss is a public health crisis, with a staggering 1.5 ...

We invite you to imagine the tune of Happy Birthday right now! When you imagine this familiar melody, your ears aren’t involved, but some parts of the brain associated with the auditory system do ...

Figure 1. Conceptual design of the dual-microcomb based biomimetic acoustic mapper. Inspired by the auditory system of insects such as crickets, which is used for hunting, avoiding predators, and ...