How does our auditory system represent time within a sound? A new study investigates how temporal acoustic patterns can be represented by neural activity within auditory cortex, a major hub within the ...

We found rat central auditory neurons to fire action potentials in a precise sequence of mini-bursts before the age of hearing onset. This stereotyped pattern was initiated by hair cells in the ...

New Baycrest research reveals that the brain remembers what we see and what we hear in different ways. Visual memories tend ...

A new study published in PNAS uses brain scans of musicians and non-musicians to demonstrate that humans undergo what’s called training-related neuroplasticity: training in music fundamentally changes ...