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October 21, 2022

Your Brain Is Always Listening

Even if you are sound asleep, your brain is always at work, listening to, making note of and interpreting sound. The listening brain performs like an orchestra of neurons that never stops encoding incoming sounds and even has what scientists call a "conductor". Learn more on NSF's "The Discovery Files."

Credit: National Science Foundation


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