Structure and function The passageway in the ear that leads from the outer ear to the eardrum is known as the external auditory canal or the external auditory meatus. It acts as a pathway for sound ...

To parse foreground and background sounds, the auditory cortex of humans and ferrets share a similar hierarchical organization, but the underlying computational mechanisms are fundamentally different.

A research team has developed a skin-attachable auditory sensor, which recognizes human voices in noisy environments and when users wear facemasks. The new sensor will be useful in microphones that ...