For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech ...

A new study reveals that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may arise when the brain fails to recognize its own inner voice as self-generated.

A recent study has confirmed a longstanding theory about the origins of the ‘voices’ experienced by individuals with ...

New research suggests that hearing voices in schizophrenia may arise from the brain’s failure to recognize its own inner ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

New brain study reveals why people with schizophrenia hear voices: their brains amplify inner speech instead of quieting it, ...

A UNSW study found that people with schizophrenia who hear voices react to inner speech as if it were external sound. Using ...

This revised manuscript presents an important characterization of mouse auditory cortex receptive field organization, utilizing two-photon imaging of specific subpopulations. They demonstrate a ...

Researchers have shown that the brain’s primary auditory cortex is more responsive to human vocalizations associated with positive emotions and coming from our left side than to any other kind of ...

Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci. To treat severe cases of ...

Sounds that we hear around us are defined physically by their frequency and amplitude. But for us, sounds have a meaning beyond those parameters: we may perceive them as pleasant or unpleasant, ...