The sound of laughter may make you smile and laugh, British researchers report. "It seems that it's absolutely true that 'laugh and the whole world laughs with you,'" Sophie Scott, PhD, says in a news ...

The sound of laughter may make you smile and laugh, British researchers report. "It seems that it's absolutely true that 'laugh and the whole world laughs with you,'" Sophie Scott, Ph.D., says in a ...

Ultrasound waves, currently used in medicine for prenatal scans and other diagnostic purposes, could one day be used as a noninvasive way to control brain activity. Over the past two years, scientists ...

Your vision and hearing may be more intertwined than previously thought. According to a report by Medical Daily, a new study from the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of ...

A new ultrasound device, used in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), allows neurosurgeons to precisely burn out small pieces of malfunctioning brain tissue without cutting the skin or ...

Changing the shape of human participants' ears has provided new insight into how the brain represents the location of a sound source. The research, published in JNeurosci, highlights the link between ...

First images of dolphin brain circuitry hint at how they sense sound Neuroscientists have for the first time mapped the sensory and motor systems in the brains of dolophins Date: July 8, 2015 Source: ...

Communication problems associated with autism may be explained by the discovery that the brains of autistic children are a fraction of a second slower to react to sounds than those of normal children.