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 ...

We examine the functional characteristics of auditory cortical areas that are sensitive to spatial cues in the human brain, and determine whether they can be dissociated from parietal lobe mechanisms.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 processing disorder (APD) is when the brain cannot interpret sounds correctly. People may also refer to APD as central auditory processing disorder. People with APD may find it difficult to ...

Deaf people with enhanced vision can thank otherwise idle brain cells for their heightened sense, a new study in cats suggests. That's because the brain recruits cells normally devoted to hearing to ...