We don’t just hear speech, we actively reconstruct it. Here’s how the brain turns messy sound into meaning, and why we ...

When we listen to speech sounds, our brain needs to combine information from both hemispheres. How does the brain integrate acoustic information from remote areas? In a neuroimaging study, a team of ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, either by directing their attention to expected stimuli or by reducing ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret language. In people, the ...