Reflective piece by Eve Marder – "What happened to the pursuit of truth"
rupress.org/jgp/article/...
Real-time audio attention decoding. We track eyes for visual attention, but there is no physical manifestation of the brain’s auditory interest. We decode EEG signals to see whether the brain is paying more attention to speaker 1 or speaker 2. Imagine aids that help you hear what you want.
Jonathan A. Michaels
#JNeurosci: Findings from Märcher-Rørsted et al. suggest primary brain aging may be a significant contributor to auditory cortical hyperactivity and altered gain adaptation, progressing in parallel with peripheral neural degeneration
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2037-25.2026
Malcolm Slaney
Eminent morphometric analysis of cochlear nerve fibres by C Liberman and S Kostrikov. A modiolar-pillar length gradient in auditory nerve fibres between synapses and the spike generation zone. A possible contributor to the mind-bending dynamic range of hearing! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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SfN Journals
The knowledge in our brains, not in our phones, is necessary for creative thinking and the pursuit of truth.
Auditory-nerve fibers (ANFs) from a given cochlear region can vary in threshold sensitivity by up to 60 dB, corresponding to a 1000-fold difference in…
