hearing
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.
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…
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…
A Ménière’s drug shows hearing gains in a company’s new trial analysis
Sound Pharmaceuticals says a third of patients on its oral drug regained at least 10 dB of hearing, against about one in ten on…
Older adults in four countries want hearing care from a clinic
Surveyed before over-the-counter hearing aids existed, more than 9,000 people over 60 picked doctors and audiologists over shops, ads and mail order.
Musicians are slightly harder to fool with the ventriloquism illusion
In 70 Australian students, trained musicians let a flash of light drag their sense of where a sound came from 1.6 degrees less than…
Demant’s hearing-aid sales grew 17% in the third quarter
The Oticon maker raised its 2026 outlook on a strong launch of its Reveal hearing aid, and now expects the whole market to grow…
One missing gene cost female mice their hearing early, not males
Without the energy-transport gene Slc16a5, female mice lost high-frequency hearing by 6 weeks while males kept theirs at 12, a UT Dallas team reports.
Two siblings born deaf now hear after a one-time gene therapy
A brother treated at 3 and a sister treated at 1 at Cincinnati Children’s were in the trial behind Otarmeni, the hearing gene therapy…
Phantom music is not mainly a hearing-loss problem, a Dutch study finds
Among 80 people in The Hague who hear music no one is playing, half had no documented hearing loss, and most heard old hymns…
A sharper ear for plain tones helps learners hear foreign vowels
In 140 Japanese students learning English, telling apart tones a few hertz apart predicted vowel accuracy about as well as time abroad did.
New US tinnitus guideline backs sound enrichment and rejects supplements
The first update in 12 years from the ear, nose and throat surgeons’ foundation lists 16 action statements and asks every clinician to screen…