Science news articles about 'auditory stimuli'

  • Seagulls: Are males the weaker sex?

    ... of incubation, birds’ auditory system is developed and embryos communicate with each other by auditory stimuli. These vocalizations may act as a cue for later-developing embryos about forthcoming ...
  • Sound adds speed to visual perception

    ... visual responses in the primary visual cortex by auditory stimuli in an awake monkey." The researchers recorded the ... strong—i.e., high contrast—the auditory stimulus did not affect latency; however, ...
  • Political attitudes are predicted by physiological traits

    ... of fruit and a happy child) placed within a series of other images. A second test used auditory stimuli to measure involuntary responses to a startling noise. The researchers noted a correlation ...
  • Learning how not to be afraid

    ... of learned safety in mice. In their experiments, mice were trained to associate safety or fear with specific auditory stimuli (tones). For fear conditioning, the auditory stimulus was paired with a ...
  • Hebrew U. researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech

    ... problems among adults and young people. Our brain has the capability to process speech and other complex auditory stimuli and to make sense of them, even when the sound signals reach our ears in a ...
  • Women outperform men when identifying emotions

    ... they identified as fear or disgust. Emotions were based on auditory stimuli, visual stimuli, followed by compatible audio-visual stimuli and contradictory audio-visual stimuli (i.e. a face that ...

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