Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.

Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or potentially threatening. Via a process known as habituation, they gradually learn to ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

Dr. Mattia Rosso and Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti from Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University are behind new research showing that the brain doesn’t just register sound – it ...

A 2026 company-issued informational overview from Binaural Technologies outlining how Memory Wave describes its 12-minute audio program, including positioning related to gamma brain wave activity, ...

How does the brain decide whether or not something is correct? When it comes to the processing of spoken language – particularly whether or not certain sound combinations are allowed in a language – ...

Whether it's a car door not properly closed, a shanked kick in football, or a misplaced note in music, our ears tell us when something doesn't sound right. A team of neuroscientists has recently ...