{"id":203791,"date":"2025-01-15T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/for-healthy-hearing-timing-matters-neuroscientists-use-ai-to-explore-real-world-auditory-processing"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:27:16","slug":"for-healthy-hearing-timing-matters-neuroscientists-use-ai-to-explore-real-world-auditory-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/for-healthy-hearing-timing-matters-neuroscientists-use-ai-to-explore-real-world-auditory-processing","title":{"rendered":"For healthy hearing, timing matters: Neuroscientists use AI to explore real-world auditory processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-healthy-hearing-timing-matters-neuroscientists-use-ai-to-explore-real-world-auditory-processing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations and alert the brain. Encoded in their signals is a wealth of information that enables us to follow conversations, recognize familiar voices, appreciate music, and quickly locate a ringing phone or crying baby.<\/p>\n<p>Neurons send signals by emitting spikes\u2014brief changes in voltage that propagate along nerve fibers, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/action+potentials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">action potentials<\/a>. Remarkably, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/auditory+neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">auditory neurons<\/a> can fire hundreds of spikes per second, and time their spikes with exquisite precision to match the oscillations of incoming sound waves.<\/p>\n<p>With powerful new models of human hearing, scientists at MIT\u2019s McGovern Institute for Brain Research have determined that this <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/precise+timing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">precise timing<\/a> is vital for some of the most important ways we make sense of auditory information, including recognizing voices and localizing sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When sound waves reach the inner ear, neurons there pick up the vibrations and alert the brain. Encoded in their signals is a wealth of information that enables us to follow conversations, recognize familiar voices, appreciate music, and quickly locate a ringing phone or crying baby. Neurons send signals by emitting spikes\u2014brief changes in voltage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}