Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci. To treat severe cases of ...

The team devised a series of four videos to examine how face masks affect speech perception between native and non-native English speakers. The videos consist of a presenter who speaks a series of ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, either by directing their attention to expected stimuli or by reducing ...

For decades, listeners have confidently misheard this lyric from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze, despite the actual line being “’Scuse me while I kiss the sky.” Misheard phrases like this are often called ...