People who lose the thread of a conversation during a noisy cocktail party might be dealing with problems detecting rapid changes in sound.

Microphones in each earbud create two synchronized audio streams providing information to separate sounds coming from different directions.

Researchers found that people aged 18-30 and 65-85 with normal hearing could all be trained to boost their ability to differentiate sounds.

Researchers at the University of Auckland are excited by ‘encouraging results’ from a clinical trial of a mobile-phone-based therapy.

Speed, or “rate,” of sound changes can make it difficult to understand speech in challenging situations, such as in noisy environments.

Edith Cowan University has investigated the effects of transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) in a variety of settings.