We process our world differently when we’re stressed out, and so, too, do mice. According to a new paper in PLOS Biology, mice perceive sounds in a different way when they’ve been subjected to repeated stressors, responding to some louder sounds as if they were softer.
“We found that repetitive stress alters sound processing,” the study authors stated in their paper. “These alterations in auditory processing culminated in perceptual shifts, particularly a reduction in loudness perception.”
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