The answer is: sooner than you might think! In the U.S., most newborns have their hearing tested before leaving the hospital.

Testing is the only way to know if a baby has hearing loss. Hearing screening is quick, easy, and does not hurt. In Maine the screening method used at birth facilities is Automated Auditory Brainstem ...

Discussion: We interpret our results under the consideration that bilingual maternal speech, as compared to monolingual, is characterized by a greater complexity in the speech sound signal, rendering ...

The lateral superior olive (LSO) is a key structure in the central auditory system of mammals that exerts efferent control on cochlear sensitivity and is involved in the processing of binaural level ...

a response was obtained from 1526 facilities (response rate 43.3%; 43.2% from neurology, 30.1% from internal medicine, 60.7% from paediatric and 42.2% from neurosurgery departments), of which 116 ...

Although metropolitan city centres offer better living opportunities for people looking to upgrade their lifestyles, they are nevertheless a cacophony of deafening sounds, with the honking of cars ...