Sentences with phrase «auditory pathway»

The precise cause of Tinnitus is still not fully understood but it is established that it is a symptom generated within a person's own auditory pathways as a result of hearing defects including infection, a blocked ear canal or eustachian tube, otosclerosis (overgrowth of bone in the middle ear), labyrinthitis and Meniere's disease.

«We studied the genetic structure of tactile, visual and auditory pathways in mice,» explains Laura Frangeul, the study first author.

That's important, says Deborah Moncrieff, an audiologist at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, because skeptics had questioned attributing difficulties in listening, learning, and reading to problems in the auditory pathway.

More recently, neuroscientist Mriganka Sur at MIT took young ferrets and connected fibers coming from their retinas to their auditory pathway.

The genes went to work in the auditory pathways of the mouse brains, creating light - sensitive patches on the membranes of their spiral ganglion neurons and other neurons.

«Because the auditory pathways are fairly well worked out in mammals, I could use that as a starting point.

I started with the top of the auditory pathway, which is the auditory cortex.

Audience founder and chief scientist Lloyd Watts told me recently that earSmart's design came from studying the brain's auditory pathways.

The perception of music starts with specialised hair cells in the inner ear, which transmit sounds as electronic signals through the auditory pathway to the auditory cortex, where sounds are primarily recognised.

The function of the candidate genes implicated in the study ranges from inner - ear development to auditory neurocognitive processes, suggesting that musical aptitude is affected by a combination of genes involved in the auditory pathway.

The best association was found at chromosome 3 close to the GATA2 gene that regulates the development of cochlear hair cells and the inferior colliculus (IC) in the auditory pathway.

An understanding of how these noise features differentially affect signal encodings along the auditory pathway would require further experiments utilizing a broader set of background noises.

We first tested the hypothesis that - adaptation increases along the auditory pathway.

In trance, brain networks displayed notable reconfigurations, including increased connectivity in regions associated with internal thought (the default mode's posterior cingulate cortex) and cognitive control (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and insula), as well as decreased connectivity within the brainstem and auditory pathway.

The device will combine sound and electrical stimulation of the face and neck in order to return to normal the neural activity in the auditory pathway.

Sound categorization is essential for auditory behaviors like acoustic communication, but its genesis within the auditory pathway is not well understood - especially for learned natural categories like

This deficiency was more widespread and severe in the Tinnitus group that was associated with noise exposure, suggesting a relationship between vitamin B12 deficiency and dysfunction of the auditory pathway.

The hearing test known as the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) or brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) detects electrical activity in the cochlea and auditory pathways in the brain in much the same way that an antenna detects radio or TV signals or an EKG detects electrical activity of the heart.

The hearing test known as the brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) or brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) detects electrical activity in the cochlea and auditory pathways in the brain in much the same way that an EKG detects electrical activity of the heart.

How your veterinarian will confirm hearing loss The only way hearing loss can be confirmed is the BAER (brainstem auditory evoked response) test that detects electrical activity in the inner ear (cochlea) and hearing nerves (auditory pathways) in the brain.