According to car manufacturer Hyundai, there are currently 300,000 people living in South Korea with some type of hearing impairment. Although not stopping them from actually driving a car, their ...

Biology lessons teach us that the brain is divided into separate areas, each of which processes a specific sense. But findings to be published in eLife show we can supercharge it to be more flexible.

Music training improves audio–visual processing and boosts your mood. Learning a musical instrument provides multisensory training, requiring you to couple visual and auditory cues together. A study ...

Floating world: a 3D globe created by the University of Sussex display. (Courtesy: Eimontas Jankauskis) An ultrasound-powered, 3D visual display that can also produce audible sound and holograms that ...

New Zealand school teacher, Neil D. Fleming, wondered why some teachers were better able to engage with students. Was it the teacher or the student that made the difference? In 1987, he developed a ...

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