Q: What Are You Doing? A: Depends, What Are You Hearing?

Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 16:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Why, in difficult driving conditions or when lost, do people turn down the volume of their radio? Some new research links motor skills and perception, specifically as it relates to a second finding; a new understanding of what the left and right brain hemispheres "hear." The findings, the first to match human behavior with left brain/right brain auditory processing tasks, may eventually point to strategies that could help stroke patients recover their language abilities and to improve speech recognition in children with dyslexia.  read more

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