Left, Right Ears Attuned To Different Sounds

Scientists in the United States have found that the right ear is better at picking up speech-like sounds and the left is more attuned to music, after studying the hearing of babies. It has long been known that the right and left halves of the brain process sound differently. However, those differences have been thought to stem from cellular properties unique to each brain hemisphere. The new research suggests that the differences start at the ear