Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

Unlike the visual system, in which images are mapped directly onto the retina and topographically projected to higher visual areas, the auditory system must compute sound location from differences in ...

People with aphasia experience reading challenges affecting participation in daily activities. Researchers have found combined auditory and written presentation modalities help people with aphasia ...

Researchers in the US and the Netherlands have observed auditory responses in the human somatosensory cortex, a region of the brain usually dedicated to processing touch. They measured functional MRI ...

Detection decisions (red for absence, blue for presence) are based on the disjunctive integration rule (disjunction and negation of disjunction). Confidence decisions (dashed line for not sure, full ...

A team of researchers from the Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology (BCT Institute) at Reichman University (Herzliya, Israel) has identified a significant deficit in auditory spatial ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...