From the WashU Newsroom… When you are out in the woods and hear a cracking sound, your brain needs to process quickly whether the sound is coming from, say, a bear or a chipmunk. In new research published in PLoS Biology, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has a new interpretation for an old observation, […]
Bear or chipmunk? Engineer finds how brain encodes sounds
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