A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA. The ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

To trigger the same responses in stressed mice as in unstressed mice, sounds need to be louder. (Credit: Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock) We process our world differently when we’re stressed out, and ...

The team’s work investigated the effect of chronic stress on mice’s perception of sounds as being loud or quiet. The paper describes how two groups of mice were subjected to a number of noises ...