Perceptions: Conductorsâ Ears and Eyes Seem to Stay Equally Alert
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A new study suggests that music conductors are less likely to divert their attention from what they are seeing when handling complex auditory tasks.
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Police departments around the country turn to sound-analysis technology to detect and report gunshots. By Amit Asaravala.
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Florida&#39;s nerve endings, like an inconstant radio dial, are tuned to two overlapping frequencies right now - the easy listening music of everyday life and the emergency broadcast system.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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Hearing aids can reduce brain strain and allow people to remember things better. Bodyhack reports from AAAS in San Francisco.
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Two species of the jumping insects can look the same to the naked eye. To tell them apart, one expert says, just use your ears.
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Focusing your attention on an object can actually impair rather than aid your perception of it, researchers find.
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The sound contradicted the image. Sure, Paul Atallah was watching a football game on TV, and sure, it was 1 o'clock in the morning, when the senses can get mischievous. But the thuds he was hearing didn't match the action he was seeing. Even the most ferocious tackle doesn't echo like that; as a longtime football player, Atallah knew that ...
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The best athletes  can sense every  play before it even  happens. Coaches  have long assumed  that this magical  "field sense" was  unteachable. Maybe  they were wrong.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Scientists say they have found the brain regions that help us to decide whether to look someone in the eye or look away.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - TV is generally concerned with winning the eyes of an audience, but ears can be just as important these days. Network and cable shows continue to put a premium on the music behind the stories, with indie and even unsigned artists as likely to get heard as any giants of the back catalog.
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White headphones linked to an iPod are key to Apple Inc.'s wildly successful advertising campaign for the digital music players, but San Francisco's rail system is warning commuters in Apple's own backyard they may also serve as a magnet for thieves.
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There might be signs of life in the industry after all.
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Researchers at the University of California find that the right and left human ears process sound differently: The right ear is better at picking up speech-like sounds and the left is more attuned to music.
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By William Weir, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Dec. 14--If you're a reporter assigned to the violin-technology beat,  these are heady times indeed.
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A novel wireless EKG monitor could make diagnosing heart conditions much easier.