Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.

Scientists have discovered a brain pathway that explains why scary sounds can trigger fear before you even understand what you’re hearing.

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

Studies suggest certain kinds of music can improve focus, especially among those with ADHD. Like many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Jake Sussman struggled in ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Are there certain sounds that really drive you crazy? Beyond mere frustration or annoyance, sounds that trigger uncontrollable feelings of anger and disgust? If so then you quite possibly suffer from ...

Chronic back pain changes brain responses, making everyday sounds feel more distressing than physical pressure.

Everyday sounds add to the torment of a person with chronic back pain, apparently because pain rewires how the brain responds ...

Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers ...