Hearing

New research aims to tease out what exactly is happening in the brains of people with schizophrenia who have auditory hallucinations

Wearing earplugs, hearing aids and earphones can make your own voice sound booming, but a new design dampens the din

Headphones and earbuds could be bad for kids’ ears. Here’s how parents can limit the volume

Glasses that provide subtitles for conversations could be a boon to people with hearing loss

A new study suggests AI can analyze cardiac activity to predict whether a song will be a hit before it’s released. But some hit-song scientists are skeptical

Frontotemporal dementia can release the creative potential of the brain’s visual areas

Not only can snakes hear sounds traveling through the air, researchers find, but different species react differently to what they hear

Multiple strategies—including speech therapy—can help those whose voice and gender identity are not aligned and can improve their quality of life

Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body’s signals

From conjunctivitis to vertigo, coronavirus infections can affect disparate senses

Whenever one examines any area of scientific inquiry, there are two important things to understand: where the science is today, and where it may lead us in the future.

Everyone learns about the senses from when we are very young. We smell with our noses, taste with our tongues, see with our eyes, touch with our skin, and listen with our ears ...