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

Hearing Voices’ or ‘listening to someone who isn’t here’ is a trope often used in movies, however, these only show one aspect ...

A new study led by psychologists from UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that auditory verbal hallucinations ...

Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this process ...

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has upended a long-held assumption in neuroscience about how the brain organizes the sounds of speech. For over 150 years, Broca’s area—a ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

People generally don’t confuse the sounds of singing and talking. That may seem obvious, but it’s actually quite impressive—particularly because we can usually differentiate between the two even when ...

In general, it would appear obvious that speech and song are distinct and separate forms of communication: We hear speech when people are speaking, and song when they are singing. I was awestruck by ...

In JASA Express Letters, researchers evaluate the relationships between sound quality, speech recognition, and ...