New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes ...

This important study suggests that adolescent mice exhibit less accuracy than adult mice in a sound discrimination task when the sound frequencies are very similar. While the evidence supporting this ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...

Audiologist and researcher Dr. Julia Campbell shares her insights into the state of misophonia research and how we may get ...

They state that there is “little evidence for circumscribed areas of the auditory cortex being uniquely specialized for processing auditory spatial information….” Furthermore, Belin and ...

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and auditory cortex (using the cortical pitch response). This research is funded by the National Institutes of Health: Experience-dependent plasticity for pitch representation in the brainstem and ...

The secondary motor cortex (M2) acted as a "sensory gatekeeper." When the mice were moving, M2 sent inhibitory signals to the auditory cortex, blocking auditory signals from reaching the PPC.