Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects a person's ability to think and behave precisely. A particular brain area which is involved in an auditory verbal hallucination in schizophrenia ...

A new imaging study suggests that cortical areas activated during sound-localization tasks also require that sound sources be distinguishable by their spectral or temporal features. The scene is an ...

Research by Bucknell University Professor Andrea Halpern, psychology, proves you don't have to be a musician to imagine music. Question: What do you mean when you say, "auditory imagery"? How does the ...

For the first time, researchers have provided physiological evidence that a pervasive neuromodulation system - a group of neurons that regulate the functioning of more specialized neurons - strongly ...

There are some universal truths we learn: the sky is blue, the grass is green, and weekends are never long enough. For neuroscientists, another accepted dogma is that the inferior colliculus (IC) ...

Auditory hallucinations involve hearing sounds that have no source or observable cause. It is common in several conditions. Treatment entails addressing the underlying cause. For instance, if the ...