Why are some animals good at learning sounds? Did this skill appear when animals started 'faking' their body size by lowering calls? In a new study on a wide range of mammals,researchers revisit this ...

entering each ear, Wright and Fitzgerald report in the Oct. 9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most learning on this task occurred in early practice sessions and then leveled off, the ...

New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device that imperceptibly stimulates the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new ...

Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images: Think of the dictation ...

Listen to a bird singing in a nearby tree, and you can relatively quickly identify its approximate location without looking. Listen to the roar of a car engine as you cross the road, and you can ...