Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Cochlear implants that use light sent sharper signals in gerbils
A Göttingen team paired gene therapy with implants carrying 5 to 10 green LEDs, and the brain told the channels apart better than it…
Mother bats’ hearts race at the calls of their own pups
In four Japanese house bats, heart rate rose by about 51 beats a minute to their own month-old pups’ echolocation calls and barely moved…
Hajra Waheed’s hummed protest songs close in Genoa and Roskilde
Two parts of the artist’s HUM trilogy, songs of resistance sung with closed lips, are free to hear until November 5 in Genoa and…
A cochlear implant with no outside parts goes on sale in Europe
MED-EL’s TICI UNICO puts the microphone and a 40-hour battery under the skin; 40 people had one by launch day, and the 30-patient trial…
Humans follow the pitch of a melody, zebra finches follow its color
Trained on the same five-tone sequences, people relied on pitch while finches combined pitch with formants, and musical training changed how the humans listened.
Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective bring Correspondences to Milan
A decade of field recordings answered by Smith’s poetry fills Triennale Milano from November 26, with two live performances at the Teatro Lirico that…
Recorded reef sound drew far more fish larvae in a Hawaiian bay
An underwater speaker in Kāneʻohe Bay pulled 4 to 14 times more young fish to artificial reef blocks, and coral larvae settled most on…
A cochlear implant with upgradeable firmware makes TIME’s inventions list
Cochlear says its Nucleus Nexa is the only implant that can take new firmware after surgery, but the company has not said what upgrades…
Music written to sound sweet changed how 28 brains processed taste
In a brain-scanner study in Scientific Reports, sweet drinks paired with matching music lit up taste and reward areas more than sweet drinks alone.
Annea Lockwood’s 167-minute Danube sound map comes to Vienna
Recorded over four years and 2,850 km from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, the installation opens at the MAK on October 28…
Ontario plans to sell hearing aids without a prescription
A law change in the province’s fall economic update would let earbuds already licensed by Health Canada switch on their hearing-aid features for mild…
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