Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) in children encompasses a spectrum of difficulties in the brain’s ability to interpret and make sense of sounds despite normal peripheral hearing sensitivity.

Adults who stutter experience differences in how their brains process sound, and these sensory differences tend to overlap ...

“I think there is something wrong with his [her] hearing,” is a comment I often hear from parents of children on the spectrum, pertaining to the atypical auditory processing they notice in their loved ...

Last week, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman—the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most-watched U.S. Senate races—explained that his stroke nearly four months ago has left him with some ...

Beat synchronization, a task requiring precise integration of auditory perception and motor production, has offered an interesting window into the biology of reading ability and its substrate skills.

Broadband sounds embedded with short pauses can maintain temporal sound processing in a mouse model of hearing loss, according to new research published in eNeuro. Hearing loss treatments supplement ...

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings suggest that auditory and speech processing occur in ...

Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...