Scientists have discovered that curtailing activity of the neuromodulator adenosine extends the critical period of auditory learning in mice and offers promising results for humans. Learning language ...

Fetal Well-Being Generally Fine After Strenuous Exercise The brain is capable of auditory learning before birth, which may have implications for language acquisition and disorders such as dyslexia.

Research from a team in Paris has found that new auditory memories can be formed while we sleep, as long as they are delivered during the right sleep phase. The idea we can form new memories while we ...

Music training is good for the brain. Nina Kraus, a prominent brain researcher at Northwestern University, says that "music training leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime ...