Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

A low-dimensional voice latent space derived from deep learning captures speaker-identity representations in the temporal voice areas and supports reconstruction of voices preserving identity ...

Imagine you’re at a bustling dinner party filled with laughter, music, and clinking silverware. You’re trying to follow a ...

A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated for the first ...

A small patch in the human auditory cortex responds more to chimpanzee calls than to other primate sounds. In 23 adults scanned in Geneva, that pattern stood out clearly. The result points to shared ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature in schizophrenia. Up to 80 percent of people with the disease experience auditory hallucinations—hearing voices or other sounds when there ...