New Delhi: In a quiet hall at the India International Centre, the air suddenly filled with the sound of palms striking in unison, ‘clap, clap, clap’. Padma Shri awardee and renowned Kathak exponent ...

Dogs do it, cats do it, deer do it – in fact, many species of mammals can swivel their ears to direct their hearing. Humans lost this ability about 25 million years ago, but according to a new study, ...

Does walking influence how people process sensory information, like sounds, from the environment? In a new JNeurosci paper, researchers led by Liyu Cao, from Zhejiang University, and Barbara Händel, ...

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