Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via ...

Seven participants had electrodes temporarily implanted in a brain structure important for learning. While anesthetized, ...

A patient under general anesthesia may appear completely disconnected from the outside world. But inside the brain, neurons could still be "listening" to stories, sorting words into categories, and ...

The findings suggest the brain is more active and capable during unconsciousness than previously thought. The human brain ...

A research team has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in motion. The study provides new insights into ...

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 ...

A hearing system that monitors brain waves could help people with hearing loss communicate in noisy environments.

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

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 ...

(A) Mice are trained to respond to external audiovisual cues by making decisions to receive a water reward while avoiding a mild air puff. When both auditory and visual stimuli are presented together, ...