“The community has to lead,” said the task force chair. Two months after the California Reparations Task Force released its initial report detailing the state’s history of slavery and the ongoing ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

Your eyes may reveal when your brain is working overtime. Researchers found that people blink less when trying to understand speech in noisy environments, especially during the most important moments.

Harvard’s dual presidential task forces to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias will hold a series of listening sessions for undergraduate students over the next two weeks, according ...

For my PhD research (Robert Fuchs, University of Münster, Germany) I am running two listening tasks. It would be wonderful if you could spend 20 minutes to take part in one (or both) of them. For ...

Learning requires your brain to analyze and remember instructions and facts. When music is on, however, your brain has to process auditory data on top of processing the instructions and facts. Because ...