Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

Ambient sounds -- papers rustling, pencils tapping -- demand as much attention as a set of verbal instructions. Try it yourself. Experience an auditory distraction. "Attention deficit" is one of ...

A child's ability to pay attention and focus on a teacher's instructions can mean the difference between scholastic success or failure. The following activity attempts to illustrate what it might ...

Remarkably, auditory neurons can fire hundreds of spikes per second, and time their spikes with exquisite precision to match the oscillations of incoming sound waves. With powerful new models of ...