New research shows the brain listens differently when we focus, fine-tuning sound responses to match the task at hand.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A Hebrew U study shows the brain predicts and times sounds during focus, revealing how we tune out noise and stay attentive, ...

Weaker performance in adolescent mice arises from immature cortical representations and cognitive bias, linking developmental changes in behavior with underlying neural coding.

Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates the mechanisms through which humans can pick out and focus on single sounds ...

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, ...