Research
Noise pollution in Singapore: the island’s noisiest neighborhoods
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 May 2017 16:34
Report
The Straits Times of Singapore followed an expert who recorded noise pollution levels and reports that the districts Serangoon, Clementi and Bukit Timah are the noisiest in this densely populated city-state.
Facebook research teams working on leading-edge communication technology
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 May 2017 16:02
Projects
MIT Technology Review recently published a piece on Facebook’s futuristic plans involving technology: typing with the mind and hearing with the skin.
Virtual reality application to experience the world through aging bodies
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- Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:21
App
The new app, developed at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK USA, is one of several virtual reality experiences available at the university.
Cognitive system that hears more objectively than humans
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 08:38
Sound perception
At the Hannover Messe 2017, one of the world’s leading industrial shows, Fraunhofer will present a cognitive system that detects erroneous sounds more objectively than the human ear.
Animal study: gene therapy to treat hereditary hearing loss
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- Published on Friday, 07 April 2017 14:03
Usher syndrome
Researchers in the United States have been able to restore hearing in genetically modified mice mimicking Usher Syndrome, a genetic condition that causes deafness, dizziness, and blindness.
Broadband or nature sound treatment for tinnitus
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 April 2017 10:26
Study
Scientists in New Zealand recently carried out a mixed-method trial of broadband noise (BBN) and nature sounds in tinnitus therapy, and somewhat surprisingly found better outcomes for broadband noise.
New drug combination to regenerate hair cells
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- Published on Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:00
Research
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Massachusetts Eye and Ear (Boston, MA, USA) have discovered a combination of drugs that expands the population of progenitor cells in the ear and induces them to become hair cells, reports Science Daily.
Rate of hearing loss in US could increase significantly according to new research
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 March 2017 16:07
Survey
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (US) have projected that among US adults aged 20 years and older, the number of people with hearing loss is expected to increase from 44 million in 2020 to 73.5 million by 2060.
Study provides new insights into the McGurk effect
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2017 08:40
Speech Perception
In new research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, researchers have created an algorithm to reveal a key insight into why the brain can sometimes muddle up visual speech (mouth movements) with auditory speech (sounds).
“Users can tolerate more noise without losing speech intelligibility”
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- Published on Thursday, 16 February 2017 14:10
INTERVIEW
Audio Infos Spain met Enrique López-Poveda, Director of the Degree in specialisation in audiology USAL and head of research team in charge of developing the technology to reproduce natural binaural audition.
