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.

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external.

The timing of our brain waves shapes which words we hear. Researchers used psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to test whether neural timing influences perception of more or less ...

A new study by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reveals that the auditory cortex doesn’t just react to sound, it adapts ...

Ringing in your ears can be a temporary problem as a result of a sinus infection or blockage — but it could also indicate a ...

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

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hysell V. Oviedo, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Some of the ...