Hearing begins as physics but is shaped by experience. The brain doesn’t simply receive sound – it learns how to interpret it, using brain plasticity to map voices in space, filter noise and make sense of the auditory world, much like learning to …
Research
Clinical trials led by Western researchers in London, Ont. improve patient care
Collaborative research advances new therapies and technologies
Who gets to make music? Western PhD candidate challenges ableist instrument design
Ran Jiang inspired students in China to rethink accessibility in music education
Western researchers centre human experience in mobility, agriculture technology
Professors Pooja Viswanathan and Marcus Drover among recipients of New Frontiers in Research Fund grants
Western gains two new Canada Research Chairs, three renewals
From migrating birds to green hydrogen, researchers respond to changing world
Study led by Western prof shows excessive screen time for children
Findings highlight how screen use, not just screen time, relates to self-regulation and classroom learning in neurodiverse children
Roman Empire explored at new Bata Shoe Museum exhibition curated by Western prof
Decades of research and leather shoes discovered at Vindolanda inspire walk through history
Western-Birds Canada partnership powers science birds and nature need to thrive
Renewed MOU continues research shaping migration science nationally and internationally
Schulich fellowship program aims to transform fracture care for older adults
Canada’s first orthogeriatric fellowship trains physicians to deliver coordinated, specialized care
Engineering researchers advance cybersecurity for semi-autonomous vehicles
Exploring the human factor, driver behaviour, in automotive cybersecurity
Western astronomers reveal spectacular birthplace of cosmic buckyballs
Professor Jan Cami first detected buckyballs using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2010
Western postdoc maps the brain’s response to cannabis
With support from a new fellowship program, Rami Hamati explores how cannabis use affects the risk of psychosis
Western students, local historians bring London’s stories to life through Forest City Facts
Sharing 200 stories for London’s bicentennial