Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, either by directing their attention to expected stimuli or by reducing ...

Speech perception and recognition constitute essential cognitive functions that enable individuals to transform acoustic signals into meaningful linguistic constructs. This process involves the ...

Speech perception seems to be rather effortless, yet a number of neural and cognitive processes are involved in mapping the acoustics of spoken language to meaning. These processes have been ...

A study comparing individuals with misophonia with healthy people found that a triggering sound, that of a buzzing fly, significantly impaired the ability of individuals with misophonia to perceive ...

Ishikawa, Japan - Robots today have come a long way from their early inception as insentient beings meant primarily for mechanical assistance to humans. Today, they can assist us intellectually and ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in neuroscience. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...