A widespread and appealing hypothesis is that all cortical areas (for example, visual and auditory) are wired according to the same general schema, regardless of what computation is performed in each ...

Hearing provides us with an immensely rich source of information about the world around us. From the pattern of sound waves reaching the two ears, we can detect the presence of and distinguish between ...

The buzz of cars on a city street. The clinking of crockery at a busy restaurant. The friendly chatter of a weekend party. The stillness of a church. All examples of auditory stimuli that an ...

The Cognitive Health Research Laboratory at Laurentian University is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Leaders Opportunity Fund. Who hasn’t heard the statement that we only use 10 per ...

Perfect pitch refers to a person’s ability to identify any musical note by name after hearing it, without reference to other notes. Perfect pitch—also known more technically as absolute pitch—can also ...