Tel Aviv [Israel], October 19 (ANI/TPS): When people focus on a task, the brain doesn't just listen differently -- it listens smarter. A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that the auditory cortex, one of the brain's main sound-processing centres, changes how it operates during active engagement, synchronising its activity to the rhythm of the task rather than merely reacting to sounds.

The research, published in Science Advances, was led by Prof. Israel Nelken from the Edmond and Lily Safra Centre for Brain Sciences and the Institute of Life Sciences.

The findings could help improve hearing aids, attention training, and brain-computer interfaces by revealing how the brain filters and prioritises sound. Devices and therapies that mimic this timing-based mechanism mig

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